With an American upbringing and Chinese heritage, Van entered the screen acting world through projects, appearing as Mia Ho in the 2008 comedy Foreign Exchange and as Annie in the SXSW-premiered Sake-Bomb (2013). She gained festival attention opposite Justin Chon in Benson Lee’s Seoul Searching, a Sundance 2015 selection, and featured in Rupert Wyatt’s The Gambler (2014) alongside John Goodman and…
