James Pax

James Pax is an actor, model, and producer who studied business at New York University and film production and directing at the University of Southern California. He modeled in the United States and Europe, including for Armani, and became the first Chinese model on a Milan runway. After working as a Wall Street stock analyst, he appeared in off-Broadway plays and then moved to Hollywood, where his early films included Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Year of Dragon, Kinjite, and Bethune (1990). He guest-starred in television series and had a regular role in Nasty Boys. In the early 1990s he worked in Hong Kong and Japan, then later ran an advertising and production company in Beijing. His Chinese television work included I Want to Really Fall in Love and Shanghai Solution, which he also produced; in 2006 he starred as the first emperor in The First Emperor, drawing favorable notices from the Hollywood Reporter and the New York Times.