Jessica Lu
Jessica Lu was born in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States on April 18th, 1985 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 39, Jessica Lu biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Jessica Luis is an American actress, model, and spokesperson.
Ming Huang's role on the MTV television series Awkward is perhaps best known.
Early life
Jessica Lu was born and raised in Schaumburg, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago. Her parents are from South Korea, with her father being Chinese and Japanese and her mother, Chinese. At home, they can speak English, Mandarin, and Korean. Since both her father and mother, a singer, have owned a restaurant together in the United States, they have operated it together.
Lu has been a natural performer since childhood. She began dancing at 6 years old, specializing in ballet, tap, and jazz. After seeing Kristi Yaman and Michelle Kwan in the Olympics on television, she decided to pursue figure skating and began private lessons every morning at 4 a.m. before school. She also took lessons in singing, piano, and violin. Jessica will entertain each table with a dramatic reading, violin playing, a tap dance, or a song as she grows up and has her parents' restaurant as her stage with a constantly changing audience.
She began modeling and acting in Chicago by the time she was ten years old, and she became a highly sought after child performer in Chicago, including Calvin Klein, Oshkosh, Marshall Fields, Got Milk?, and Chicago Place, as well as McDonald's, Ford Motors, Orville Redenbacher's, and Kaiser Permanente.
She earned a degree in Musical Theatre Performance from Columbia College Chicago.
Career
In 2008, Lu moved to Los Angeles, California. She was soon cast in the role of Ming Huang on the critically acclaimed MTV show Awkward. Other work followed, including a role as an insufferable hipster opposite Kathy Bates on FX's American Horror Story: Hotel; a upscale escort opposite Tim Robbins on HBO's Here and Now, as well as a scripted role by Tom Robbins. On CBS' Two and a Half Men, a lovesick teenager with a terminal illness; and a loving teenager with a terminal disease on FOX's Red Band Society.
On NBC's Reverie, Alexis Barrett played tech genius CEO Alexis Barrett, starring Sarah Shahi, Dennis Haysbert, Sendhil Ramamurthy, and Kathryn Morris. In the pilot episode, IndieWire called her a "promising scene stealer." SYFYWIRE, as well as other fan pages, expressed their admiration for Lu's appearance each week, and she quickly became a new favorite character. By the last episode of the first season, TVLine had her named as a "Perseperator of the Week" honorary for her "tender appearance." Jessica appeared on CBS television drama God Friended Me as Joy.