As a child actor, Quan rose to fame playing Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Data in The Goonies (1985).

Quan returned to acting with the family adventure film Finding ʻOhana (2021), followed by the critically acclaimed Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), a performance that won him various accolades, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Quan Kế Huy was born on August 20, 1971[5][6] in Saigon, South Vietnam,[6] into a family of Chinese descent, with eight siblings.

[12] Quan became a child actor at age 13, starring as Harrison Ford's 12-year-old sidekick Short Round in the Steven Spielberg film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984.

[13] The casting director auditioned a number of children at Castelar Elementary School, including Quan's younger brother.

[15] In 1985, Quan co-starred in The Goonies as a member of the eponymous group of children, the inventor Richard "Data" Wang.

He played the starring role in the 1993 Mandarin-language Taiwan TV show Eunuch & Carpenter, which ran for forty episodes.

[19] Voodoo won the Audience Award at the 2000 Slamdance Film Festival, and continues to be shown to USC students to this day.

[20] After graduating from USC, Quan was asked by Corey Yuen to go to Toronto, Ontario, to help choreograph fighting sequences in X-Men (2000).

[24] The film was released in March 2022 to overwhelming acclaim, becoming the most-awarded film of all time,[25] with Quan's performance receiving near unanimous praise and media attention, eventually leading to him winning a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for his role.

[32][33] In September 2022, Quan was announced to have joined the cast for the second season of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Loki for Disney+, which premiered on October 6, 2023.