Did Charli XCX just write a song about Chloe Bennet? Meet the Marvel actress who formerly dated Logan Paul and Riverdale’s Charles Melton, and is rumoured to be seeing The 1975’s Ross MacDonald
- Before changing her last name from Wang to Bennet, the actress dabbled in music and once appeared in a music video by K-pop group BigBang; she said she changed her name because of racism in Hollywood
- Fans once speculated that Charli XCX’s new song ‘Sympathy is a Knife’ was about Taylor Swift, but now rumours are swirling that it’s, in fact, about Bennet due to her The 1975 connection …
What is Chloe Bennet’s background?
The 32-year-old actress was born Chloé Wang to a Chinese investment banker father and a white American internist mother in Chicago, Illinois. She has lived in China, speaks Mandarin, and was brought up culturally as both American and Chinese. The actress has been loud and proud in interviews about being Asian-American too, and shared with Marie Claire that she once lived with her grandmother in Shanghai.
She has seven brothers
The Abominable actor has seven brothers, including four who are biologically related to her, two African-American foster brothers, and one Mexican-Filipino adopted brother. She also mentioned to Chicago Tribune that her parents frequently took in other foster children and foreign exchange students.
Why did Chloe Bennet change her last name?
Per People, she said she changed her last name from “Wang” to “Bennet” in order to get cast in Hollywood because her Chinese last name made people in the industry “uncomfortable”. She also revealed to The Daily Beast that she booked the first role she auditioned for after changing her surname. The role was that of Hailey in Nashville, which shot her to fame.
Bennet has since been a vocal advocate for on-screen diversity in Hollywood. She would go on to lead Abominable, Hollywood’s first animated film with an Asian lead since Mulan.