Jessica Lu
Biography
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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Full filmography
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) as Lily
- Two and a Half Men (2003) as Jean
- American Horror Story (2011) as Babe
- From Straight A's to XXX (2017) as Amanda
- Awkward. (2011) as Ming Huang
- Law & Order: LA (2010) as Kai Ng
- God Friended Me (2018) as Joy
- The New Normal (2012) as Tabitha
- Red Band Society (2014) as Mae
- Reverie (2018) as Alexis Barrett
- Weird Loners (2015) as Molly
- Line of Duty (2019) as Clover Nestel
- About Last Night (2014) as Ad Executive
- Storytellers (2013) as Mai Himura
- Saving the Human Race (2017) as Emma
- The Young Kieslowski (2014) as Hi Jing
- Bedtime Story (2018) as Coco
- Smart Pipe (2014) as Scout Condor
- Diyu (2015) as Li Xia
- Where Are You, LaoLao? (2026) as Mother
- The girls I know... get their hands dirty. (2016) as Steph