Comeback kids don’t come much more extraordinary – or well-loved – than Ke Huy Quan. After starring, aged 13, as Short Round in 1984’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and then the following year as Data in The Goonies, he struggled to forge a career in acting as an adult and took a 19-year break from the profession.
It was only this decade he returned, and won an Oscar for his trouble – for his best supporting turn in Everything Everywhere All at Once. The victory was significant not just personally but in terms of awards history, as he became the first Vietnam-born actor to win an Academy Award and only the second actor of Asian descent to win in that category.
