Nicole Scherzinger, Jon M. Chu and Blackpink’s Lisa (Lalisa Manobal) are simply three luminaries named to Gold Home’s A100 Record, the definitive honor for the 100 most impactful Asian Pacific leaders throughout industries, together with leisure and media, style, enterprise, social impression, sports activities and extra.
Chu, 45, is being honored for guiding 2024’s Depraved, the best grossing musical adaptation globally. The blockbuster’s follow-up, Depraved: For Good, opens on Nov. 21.
Along with Chu, Depraved actors Bowen Yang and Michelle Yeoh are additionally on the A100 checklist. Yang was doubly acknowledged together with solid of The Marriage ceremony Banquet, a remake of the Ang Lee queer dramedy. (In one other coincidence, Lee was named a 2025 Gold Legend for his contributions to cinema).
Scherzinger, 46, is receiving accolades for one more Broadway manufacturing, Sundown Blvd. The previous Pussycat Dolls singer instructed ipromiseyoumedia just lately that her profession parallels that of her character within the play, a fictional fading movie star named Norma Desmond.
“I began at a really younger age, and so I can actually empathize with Norma; her childhood and her teenagers and her 20s have been taken from her as a result of she was too busy working and too busy being within the trade,” Scherzinger mentioned of their similarities.
One other pop star turned multi-hyphenate who made the checklist is Lisa (Lalisa Manobal). The Thai star, 28, is a member of the highest Okay-pop lady group Blackpink and in addition starred as Mook within the third season of The White Lotus.
Lisa’s Blackpink bandmate ROSÉ was additionally named to the A100, alongside her “APT.” collaborator Bruno Mars. Different musicians being honored are Charli XCX, Laufey and Tyla.
Small display screen honorees embody Abdullah Saeed, Asif Ali, Saagar Shaikh and Poorna Jagannathan from the comedy Deli Boys, and Lee Byung-Hun, Lee Jung-jae and Hwang Dong-hyuk from Netflix’s Squid Recreation season 2.
The honorees might be celebrated at a slate of occasions all through Might, culminating with the Gold Gala in Los Angeles on Might 10.
To see the total 2025 A100 checklist, click on right here. Gold Home’s mission is to foster a cultural ecosystem that unites, invests in, and champions Asian Pacific leaders to energy tomorrow for all.
