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Jessica Lu
Schaumburg, Illinois, USA
Jessica Lu (April 18, 1985) is an American actress, model, and spokesperson. She is best known for her portrayal of Ming Huang on the MTV television series Awkward. Lu was born…
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Jessica Lu (April 18, 1985) is an American actress, model, and spokesperson. She is best known for her portrayal of Ming Huang on the MTV television series Awkward. Lu was born in Schaumburg, Illinois on April 18, 1985. She has a younger brother, Andy. As a child, she attended Hanover Highlands Elementary School located in Hanover Park, Illinois, Robert Frost Junior High, and James B. Conant High School in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Jessica grew up in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, Illinois, where she spent her childhood and high school days developing her love of theater and the performing arts. She went on to attend Columbia College Chicago, where she starred as the lead role in the musical Flower Drum Song, before graduating with an honors degree in Musical Theatre Performance. She is of Chinese and Japanese decent.
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2026
Where Are You, LaoLao?
Movie Mother
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2019
Line of Duty
Movie Clover Nestel
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2018
God Friended Me
TV show Joy
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2018
Bedtime Story
Movie Coco
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2018
Reverie
TV show Alexis Barrett
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2017
Saving the Human Race
TV show Emma
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2017
From Straight A's to XXX
Movie Amanda
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2016
The girls I know... get their hands dirty.
Movie Steph
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2015
Weird Loners
TV show Molly
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2015
Diyu
Movie Li Xia
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2014
Smart Pipe
Movie Scout Condor
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2014
Red Band Society
TV show Mae
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2014
The Young Kieslowski
Movie Hi Jing
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2014
About Last Night
Movie Ad Executive
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2013
Storytellers
TV show Mai Himura
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2012
The New Normal
TV show Tabitha
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2011
American Horror Story
TV show Babe
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2011
Awkward.
TV show Ming Huang
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2010
Law & Order: LA
TV show Kai Ng
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2003
Two and a Half Men
TV show Jean
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2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
TV show Lily
