Nancy Ma

Biography

Nancy Ma is a first generation Asian American actor and filmmaker. Her solo show about growing up in Chinatown, Home, has been performed at schools and festivals around the country. She currently co-hosts a podcast, Hoisan Hour, with her sister on the Chinese diaspora. As an actor, Nancy has been seen in The Joy Luck Club (Sierra Madre Playhouse), Three Little Girls Down a Well (The Public), Hacks (HBO), Barry (HBO), Bull (CBS). Nancy’s writing has been supported by The New Harmony Project, Asian American Arts Alliance, The Latino Theater Company, Fresh Ground Pepper, WhoHaHa. Nancy currently facilitates storytelling with The Moth and Young Storytellers. Her work and her life focus on finding the funny, intimate and redemptive in forgotten places.

Known For

Gay Baby
Gay Baby
Natural Vice
Natural Vice
Memory of a Butterfly
Memory of a Butterfly

Filmography

2022 Natural Vice
as Kong's Aunt
2021 Hacks
as Photographer
2019 American Bodies
as
2018 Gay Baby
as Sochi Lin
2018 Barry
as
2016 Bull
as Lynn
2015 Yes, And...
as Lisa
2014 The Affair
as Grace
2013 Midlife
as Mae Ling
2012 Memory of a Butterfly
as Mei
1990 Law & Order
as MLI