My Ideal Avatar: The Last Airbender Cast

An archive of some of the best English-speaking APIN actors/actresses out there.

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Ian Chen as Aang

Ian Chen is a 13-year-old actor known for playing leading character Evan Huang in the ABC sitcom “Fresh Off the Boat” (2015-2020) as well as Eugene Choi in DC’s 2019 “Shazam!” film.

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Sladen Peltier as Young Sokka

Sladen Peltier is a young actor known for playing 6-year-old Saul in the film “Indian Horse” (2017), for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018.

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Ana Red Horse as Young Katara

Ana Red Horse is a young, indigenous actress who will be playing Young Minnewanna in the film, “The Red Man’s View”, which will resume pre-production after the quarantine.

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John Cho as Monk Pasang

John Cho is an actor known for his roles as Harold Lee in the “Harold & Kumar” films (2004-2011) and Hikaru Sulu in the “Star Trek” reboot film series (2009-2016).

Other prominent films and television roles that John Cho has played in include John (MILF Guy #2) in the “American Pie” films (1999-2012), Chau Presley in “Off Centre” (2001-2002), Phil Quon in “Down to Earth” (2001), Steve Choe in “Better Luck Tomorrow” (2002), Teddy Wong on “Kitchen Confidential” (2005), Kenny in “Ugly Betty” (2007-2010), Demetri Noh in “FlashForward” (2009-2010), Henry Higgs in “Selfie” (2014), and David Kim in “Searching” (2018).

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Aaron Yoo as The Mechanist

Aaron Yoo is an actor in television and film.

In film, he is best known for playing Heston in “Rocket Science” (2007), Lyle Nomura in “American Pastime” (2007), Ronnie in “Disturbia” (2007), Justin in “The Wackness” (2008), Choi in “21″ (2008), Thom in “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” (2008), Chewie in “Friday the 13th” (2009), Steve-O in “The Good Guy” (2009), Miles in “Labor Pains” (2009), Humanz Dude in “Gamer” (2009), Marcus Yeon in “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (2010), Peter Jung in “10 Years” (2011), Max in “She Wants Me” (2012), Carl in “McCanick” (2013), Brendan Butler in “Kid Cannabis” (2014), Donnie in “Demonic” (2015), Jamie in “Someone Else” (2015), Ben in “Everything Before Us” (2015), Won Joon in “Money Monster” (2016), and Yong in “Killing Gunther” (2017).

In telelvision, he is best known for playing James Fong in “The Bedford Diaries” (2006), Russell Kwon in “The Tomorrow People” (2013-2014), Alex in “Start Up” (2016-2017), and Hideki Tashiro in “Hawaii Five-0″ (2018).

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Togo Igawa as Sozin

Togo Igawa is a Japanese actor who works primarily in British films and television.

In recent years, he has had roles in major motion pictures such as playing General Hasegawa in “The Last Samurai” (2003), Fred in “Revolver” (2005), Tanaka in “Memoirs of a Geisha” (2005), Mr. Suzuki in “Irish Jam” (2006), Mr. Togokahn in “Speed Racer” (2008), Yamashita in “The Night Train” (2009), Sensei Takeda in “Ninja” (2009), Ting Wang in “Johnny English Reborn” (2011), Takagawa in “Gambit” (2012), Tengu Lord in “47 Ronin” (2013), The Sadist in “Everly” (2014), Nakamura in “Breaking the Bank” (2017), Mr. Tatyama in “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” (2018), Wang Yong in “The Gentlemen” (2019) and Lau Hoi Ho in “The Host” (2020).

In television, he played Mr. Jima in the British soap opera “Gems” (1985-1986), Takeshi Fujita in “Thief Takers” (1997), Fuji in TV movie “Murphy’s Law” (2001), Misato Ichiro in “Broken News” (2005), voiced Professor Moshimo in the cartoon series “Robotboy” (2005-2008), Mr. Yamamoto in “The IT Crowd” (2006-2008), Admiral Matome Ugaki in “The Day of the Kamikaze” (2008), Hideyoshi Toyotomi in “Heroes and Villains” (2008), voiced Hiro in the “Thomas the Tank Engine” franchise (2009-2020), Dr. Takenaka in “Strike Back” (2013), Goutetsu in “Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist” (2014), Mr. Yoshida in “The Amazing World of Gumball” (2015-2019), Chulun in Netflix’s “Marco Polo” (2016), and Hotaka in “Girl/Haji” (2019). He has also done voice work for many video games.

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Vincent Rodriguez III as Young Sozin

Vincent Rodriguez III is an actor known for playing leading character Josh Chan in “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” (2015-2019) and Detective Rudy Cruz in “Insatiable” (2019).

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Jessica Matten as Young Hama

Jessica Matten is a a television and film actress. In television, she is best known for playing Gina in “Blackstone” (2014-2015), Sokanon in “Frontier” (2016-2018), Maria in “Shadowhunters” (2017), Gerrilyn Spence in “Burden of Truth” (2018-2019), Odina Wilmot in “Hudson & Rex” (2019), and Samantha ‘Sam’ Woodburn in “Tribal” (2020).

In film, she is best known for playing Danielle in “Robot Love” (2013) and Fiona in “The Empty Man” (2020).

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Ashley Callingbull as Young Kanna (Gran Gran)

Ashley Callingbull is an actress best known for playing series regular Sheila Delaronde in the TV show “Blackstone” (2011-2015) for five seasons. She was also Miss Canada in 2010 and a contestant on “The Amazing Race Canada” in 2016.

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Lucy Liu as Sister Iio

I’m cracking up over the parallels between these pictures. It’s as if Lucy Liu is Sister Iio’s sexy alter ego. Lucy Liu, of course, is an iconic Asian-American actress in both television and film.

In television, she is best known for playing Mei-Sun Leow in “ER” (1995), Officer Whin in “High Incident” (1996), Amy Li in “Pearl” (1996-1997), Ling Woo in  “Ally McBeal” (1998-2002), Lauren Beck in “Joey” (2004-2005), Grace Chin in “Ugly Betty” (2007), Mia Mason in “Cashmere Mafia” (2008), Nola Lyons in “Cashmere Mafia” (2008-2009), Rae Ann Carter in “Marry Me” (2010), Officer Jessica Tang in “Southland” (2012), Dr. Joan Watson in “Elementary” (2012-2019), Veronica Ford in “Difficult People” (2017), Yumi in “Animals” (2018), and Simone Grove in “Why Women Kill” (2019).

In film, she is best known for playing Cee-Cee in “Gridlock’d” (1997), Cathi Rose in “City of Industry” (1997), Kashi in “Love Kills” (1998), Pearl in “Payback” (1999), Dot in “Flypaper” (1999), Brenda in “Molly” (1999), Lia in “Play It to the Bone” (1999), Princess Pei Pei in “Shanghai Noon” (2000), Alex from Charlie Angels 1 & 2 (2000 + 2003), Kawika in “Hotel” (2001), Sever in “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever” (2002), Rita Foster in “Cypher” (2002), Kitty Baxter in “Chicago”, O-Ren Ishii in “Kill Bill: Vol 1″ (2004), Jin Ping in “3 Needles” (2005), Taryn Mills in “Domino” (2005), Lindsey in “Lucky Number Slevin” (2006), Gina in “Codename: The Cleaner” (2007), Sadie Blake in “Rise: Blood Hunter” (2007), Violet in “Watching the Detectives” (2007), Anne in “The Year of Getting to Know Us” (2008), Viper in the “Kung Fu Panda” franchise (2008-2016), Silvermist in the “Tinkerbell” franchise (2008-2014), Susan in “Nómadas“ (2010), Dr. Doris Parker in “Detachment” (2011), Andrea in “The Trouble with Bliss” (2011), Rowena in “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You” (2011), Madam Blossom in “The Man with the Iron Fists” (2012), Queen in “Future World” (2018), Kirsten in “Set It Up” (2018), and Sienna in “Stage Mother” (2020).

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Lucille Soong as Aunt Wu

Lucille Soong is a seasoned actress with over 50 years of experience appearing television and film.

In television, she is best known for playing Lotus Feng in “Seargent Cork” (1964), Chan Lai Ming in “Emergency Ward-10″ (1966-1967), Suzie/Su Lan in “Mogol” (1967-1970) Jasmine Choong in “Coronation Street” (1969), Mrs. Wong in “Dharma & Greg” (1997-2001) Sally Chin in “Passions” (2001), Xiu Shi in “Huff” (2004), Yao Lin in “Desperate House Wives” (2004-2009), and, last but definitely not least, Grandma Huang in “Fresh Off the Boat” (2015-2020).

In film, she is best known for playing Allie in “Darling” (1965), Ling in the “The Brides of Fu Manchu” (1966), Lucille in “The Mini-Mob” (1967), Kim Lee in “One More Time” (1970), Popo in “The Joy Luck Club” (1993), Ling in “Vanishing Son” (1994),  Dr. Kang in “Yesterday’s Target” (1996), Pei-Pei’s Mom in “Freaky Friday” (2003), Ming in Nora’s Hair Salon and Nora’s Hair Salon II (2004 & 2008), Nhung Chan in “Nine Dead” (2010), Estelle in “How to Be a Better American” (2010), and Zu Mu in “Heebie Jeebies” (2013).

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Sydney Mae Estrella as Meng

Sydney Mae Estrella is a 12-year-old actress best known for playing Amy in “Teachers” (2017), a judge in “The Toy Box” (2017), Alex Grayson in “Criminal Minds” (2017), a kid singer in “Future Man” (2019), and DJ in “A Little Late with Lily Singh” (2019).

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Lucas Jaye as Young Zuko

Lucas Jaye is a 12-year-old actor with an impressive acting resume. He is best known for playing Michael in the TV series “Lucky Days” (2012), “Little Wolf” in the TV series “Scary Endings” (2015), Holden Stanley in TV movie “The Perfect Stanleys” (2015), Kwan in Netflix’s “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life” (2016), Brandon Hsu in the TV series “Pure Genius” (2016), Kyle in the TV series “Angel Tribeca” (2017), Kyle in Netflix’s “Fuller House” (2016-2017), Raymond in the TV series “Teachers” (2018), Cody in the film “Driveways” (2019), Gabe Salonga in the TV series “The InBetween” (2019), and Donny in the TV series “Merry Happy Whatever” (2019).

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Megan Liu as Azula (or Toph)

Megan Liu is a 12-year-old actress known for playing Child Jessica in the TV series “Fresh Off the Boat” (2015), Young Margot in the film “Searching” (2018), Fei Yunshan in the TV series “Timeless” (2018), Harper Layton in the TV re-boot of “Magnum P.I.” (2018), and Chloe in the TV series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” (2019).

Obviously, I chose Megan Liu to play Young Azula due to her looking like a miniature version of Lucia Liu, but I also think she’d make a great Toph if Ella Gross couldn’t play the part.

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Rick Mora as Avatar Kuruk

Rick Mora is a an actor best known for playing Crow Runner in “Yellow Rock” (2011), Kid Falcon in “Little Boy” (2015), Eagle Claw in “Lockhart: Unleashing the Talisman” (2016), Detective Valens in “The Lady Killers” (2017), and Sa’ani in “A Soldier’s Revenge” (2020).

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Ajuawak Kapashesit as Hahn

Ajuawak Kapashesit is a young actor known for playing Saul in “Indian Horse” (2017), Twix Sunwind in “Bad Blood” (2018), and Hank Crow-Eyes in “Indian Road Trip” (2019).

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Richard Ouyang as Monk Tashi

I’d say this is a joke cast, but I sincerely do think he would be good for this role.

Richard Ouyang is the father of comedian Jimmy O. Yang and a lovable part-time actor. He is known for playing Mr. Feng in “Mahjong and the West” (2014),  Chef Wu in “Love Arcadia” (2015), meditator in “Buddy Solitaire” (2016), the father of Meng Dun in “Patriots Day” (2016), and Dr. Zhang in “Space Force” (2020).

Lets get Richard Ouyang more work so he can further rustle a certain Jimmy.