The 100 People Transforming Business list was identified by Business Insider’s newsroom under 10 categories: advertising, better capitalism, consumer technology, enterprise technology, finance, health care, investing, media, retail and transport, and includes names such as Wonder Woman film director Patty Jenkins and Bob Iger, CEO and chairman of Walt Disney Company.

The Sarawak-born Golding, who has a Malaysian mother and an English father, was credited for “changing what it means to be a leading man in Hollywood”.

The former hairdresser’s star shot into orbit with the release of the runaway hit Crazy Rich Asians where he played the handsome Nick Young, who brings his girlfriend to meet his fabulously rich Singaporean family for the first time.

The film was the first Hollywood film to feature an all-Asian cast in 25 years.

“Golding carried the film with a movie-star charisma that is rare these days,” Business Insider says.

Since the film’s release, Golding’s star has continued rising.

He has been frequently lauded as the “next Hollywood leading man” and was the first Asian to be named one of GQ magazine’s Men of the Year.

Last year, the actor also starred in American director Paul Feig’s mystery thriller, A Simple Favor, opposite Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick, and will reunite with Feig and his Crazy Rich Asians mother, Michelle Yeoh, in the holiday romantic-comedy, Last Christmas, co-written by the British actress Emma Thompson.

There have even been rumblings among his fans online for him to replace Henry Cavill as Superman and there’s also the second instalment of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy coming up.

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