He graduated from the University of Southern California in School of Cinematic Arts. Richard Data Wang the role he played in 1985 was a classic one and The Goonies, as a child actor. At the age of 13, he played an awesome role in the action and adventure movie 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom', Short Round in which he became famous as an actor. Short Round appears in the opening scene, waiting in the getaway car in the Spielberg film was released in 1984.

In 1986, he played as Sam on the popular TV series 'Together We Stand'. He also had acted in a Japanese movie and shockingly even IMDB isn’t sure it’s heard about it. In the early ’90s, movie Head of the Class there was another sitcom. In the early 80’s he learned Tae Kwon Do under Philip Tan. Later on, he had trained with Tao-Liang Tan. The multi-talented Quan worked as an assistant fight choreographer in X-men by Bryan Singer then for Jet Li in The One, directed by James Wong. His talent as a cinematographer led him to work for a short comedy script named Voodoo, in 1999 directed by Gregg Bishop.

A gambling based movie which is a time traveling drama named Second Time Around was in 2002. He has been nominated for Saturn Award for the Best performer by a young actor for his act in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. He has won the young artist award for 'Together We stand' and ' Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'. Now the actor has turned to a full-time stunt choreographer whose net worth is one million US dollars as on March 2012. Also, the multi-talented Quan had won various awards for his acting and stunt choreography. His award-winning Journey started in 1984 when he received the Young artist award for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

After being into acting, his name is changed to Ke Huy by his family in which he was known in TV shows and films. His another name is ‎Jonathan Ke Huy Quan. His biography reveals that he was married to Corinna and details on his children are not known. As of now there are no updates about his present position, as his movies were released 10 years back. He is also absent from the social media. His twitter address is @JonathanKeQuan. We believe that this man is following his dream and continuing to work related to martial arts. Currently, he is residing at Alhambra, California. In his last interview held, he had revealed that what is life looks for the child star of 80's and what he is now. Reports say that he is now developing an action project and he believes that he will be the director for the project. According to him, he had a net worth of $1 million as of March 2012.