The Most Famous
ACTORS from Costa Rica
This page contains a list of the greatest Costa Rican Actors. The pantheon dataset contains 9,996 Actors, 1 of which were born in Costa Rica. This makes Costa Rica the birth place of the 127th most number of Actors behind Dominica and Rwanda.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Costa Rican Actors of all time. This list of famous Costa Rican Actors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Harry Shum Jr. (1982 - )
With an HPI of 41.72, Harry Shum Jr. is the most famous Costa Rican Actor. His biography has been translated into 30 different languages on wikipedia.
Harry Shum Jr. (born April 28, 1982) is an American actor. Shum has played Mike Chang on the Fox television series Glee (2009–2015), Magnus Bane on the Freeform television series Shadowhunters (2016–2019), and Benson Kwan on the ABC television series Grey's Anatomy (2022–present). He was nominated for six Screen Actors Guild Awards for best ensemble performance in Crazy Rich Asians, Glee and Everything Everywhere All at Once, winning for the latter two. Shum won the award for The Male TV Star of 2018 in the E! People's Choice Awards for Shadowhunters. Shum has appeared in the films Step Up 2: The Streets (2008), Step Up 3D (2010), White Frog (2012), Revenge of the Green Dragons (2014), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), the Hulu web series The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers (2010–2011) and the YouTube Originals series Single by 30 (2016). In 2020, he starred in Universal Pictures's romantic drama All My Life. In 2021 Shum starred in the thriller Broadcast Signal Intrusion and appeared in Netflix's holiday rom-com Love Hard. In 2022, Shum had a supporting role in A24's critically acclaimed film Everything Everywhere All at Once, and is set to star in a Crazy Rich Asians spinoff centered around his and Gemma Chan's characters.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as actors born between 1982 and 1982. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living actors include Harry Shum Jr..
