Mardy Ma Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Mardy Ma
Acting
Biography
Mardy Ma is a Chinese actress and entrepreneur born and raised in the countryside of Henan province, China. She went to college in Zhengzhou while owning and operated two restaurants. In 2000, after graduating, she sold her two restaurants and moved to Shanghai, China, where she studied acting at Shanghai Theatre Academy in 2000 and invested in other real estate properties. In the early 2000s, she signed on as the Asian deal closer and negotiator for Gary Goddard Entertainment (now Legacy Entertainment), an independent themed entertainment design firm based in Hollywood. She worked on dozens of major theme parks and resorts deals in China, including the Intangible Cultural Heritage Exposition Park in Chengdu, Haichang Polar Ocean World in Shanghai, and Dream Bund World Studios in Hengdian. In early 2014, she auditioned in Beijing, China for a role in a BBC television movie entitled One Child. In 2018, she co-executive produced the feature film Anima (莫尔道嘎) with Enlight Media. During Christmas 2019, she returned to the United States for the holiday season, but end up stuck in Los Angeles as the COVID 19 pandemic began in China. From 2020 to 2023, she retired from the theme park business and pursued a full time acting careeer in Hollywood.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Sunflower
After being sexually assaulted by a well-respected professor, a reclusive Chinese American girl who grew up in an abusive family struggles to find her voice while her mother tells her to be silent.
Are You Still There?
Safa’s been through a lot. Now her car battery's dead in a strip mall parking lot.
At Little Wheelie Three Days Ago
When a soul-shaking viral video shudders through town, a jobless father struggles to keep hold of his existence.
Red Card
At an underground hostess bar in the San Gabriel Valley, CA, a Taiwanese-American gang member breaks the cardinal rule of his job when he falls in love with the star hostess of the club.
Wax and Wane
Immigrant Wu Sui has emergency surgery to remove the IUD implanted under China’s One Child Policy, and must come to terms with her past suffering.
Dumplings
After two years of dating, a lesbian girl takes her girlfriend back home for the spring festival to meet her conservative Chinese immigrant parents.
Chang Can Dunk
Chang, a 16-year-old, Asian American, bets the high school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming. The bet leads 5' 8" Chang on a quest to learn to dunk—not only to impress his crush, Kristy, but to gain the respect of his high school peers too. But before he can rise up and truly throw one down, he'll have to reexamine everything he knows about himself, his friendships and his family.
One Note (单注)
A dark comedy about a neurotic but driven 17-year-old Chinese-American violinist on a mission to get admitted to Harvard at any cost. After spotting a mistake in her application at the last minute, she embarks on a midnight rampage through her magnet high school, blackmailing a socially-awkward teenage hacker to deliver the perfect audition for the elusive Dean of Admissions before the deadline.
Fata Morgana
A middle-aged couple from China arrives in the United States for the first time to organize the funeral rites of their only child. In the midst of dealing with the logistics of the funeral and their overwhelming grief, they begin to unravel the escalating fractures in their relationship and the uncertain futures that lie ahead of them.
Luna
Luna is a story that is set in 1930s Shanghai. The main character, Luna, is a high-end prostitute. When an unexpected guest visits her, she offers to play a dangerous game with him, and their bargaining chip is his pinky finger. As the game goes on, the sexual and political tension develops, which leads to unexpected consequences.
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