John Wu was born on March 31, 1980 in Woodside, Queens County, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Bull (2016), DMZ (2022) and Power Book III: Raising Kanan (2021).
Mass Effect is set many hundreds of years in the future, after humanity uncovers a device on Mars that allows for faster-than-light travel. This leads to encountering advanced alien species, who had already formed an interplanetary council to promote stability in a chaotic and messy universe.