Actor John Cho began his career with the famed Asian American theater company East West Players, but is best known for his role in helping to define popular film culture for nearly two decades, starting with breakthrough in the American Pie franschise as John (MILF Guy No. 2), who popularized the term " MILF" in the American Pie films; then as Harold Lee in the Harold & Kumar films; and, most recently as Hikaru Sulu in the Star Trek reboot film series.