Jessica Lu

Jessica Lu

Born: April 18, 1985
in 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 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.

Movies for Jessica Lu...

Line of Duty
Title: Line of Duty
Character: Clover Nestel
Released: December 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Frank Penny is a disgraced cop looking for a shot at redemption. When the police chief's 11-year-old daughter is abducted, Frank goes rogue to try and save her. But to find the girl, Frank will need the help of Ava Brooks, whose live-streaming news channel is broadcasting Frank's every move.
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Title: God Friended Me
Character: Joy
Released: September 30, 2018
Type: TV
A self-proclaimed "pesky atheist" is encouraged to help strangers by someone claiming to be God who friends him on Facebook.
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Title: Reverie
Character: Alexis Barrett
Released: May 30, 2018
Type: TV
A former detective specializing in human behavior is brought in when the launch of an advanced virtual reality program has dangerous and unintended consequences.
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Title: Saving the Human Race
Character: Emma
Released: May 9, 2017
Type: TV
Matt - a 17 year old zombie apocalypse survivor aide by his Cyborg, Joanesy - is in pursuit of a surviving female to help him repopulate the human race.
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From Straight A's to XXX
Title: From Straight A's to XXX
Character: Amanda
Released: February 11, 2017
Type: Movie
When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her friends at school, keeping her double life a secret. But soon rumours spread and Miriam becomes the subject of vicious online attacks and unwanted attention. Miriam fights back: she talks to the media, saying her new line of work empowers her as a feminist. But her confident stand has unintended consequences. Miriam is shunned by her conservative family and her colleagues in the adult film world. One impulsive decision has quickly spiralled out of control - and Miriam's problems are just beginning.
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The girls I know... get their hands dirty.
Title: The girls I know... get their hands dirty.
Character: Steph
Released: September 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Stranded in the middle of the desert, a filmmaker attempts to change her flat tire in order to make it to the biggest interview of her life.
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DIYU 地獄
Title: DIYU 地獄
Character: Li Xia
Released: February 20, 2015
Type: Movie
Experimental short film that explores the feelings of 17-year-old Li Xia who searches for purpose and intimacy while trapped in Diyu, or "hell" in Chinese mythology.
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Title: Red Band Society
Character: Mae
Released: September 17, 2014
Type: TV
Children and teenagers become friends in a hospital where they are all patients. Together they try to escape the sad reality to create their own world with their own codes , while the nursing staff do their best to bring them a little happiness everyday. Charlie , in a coma for several months, attending meanwhile helplessly bustle around him. He sees nothing , but he hears everything ...
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The Young Kieslowski
Title: The Young Kieslowski
Character: Hi Jing
Released: June 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Grand romantic gestures need not apply in this comedic tale of star-crossed young love. Instead, freshman Brian Kieslowski displays endless reserves of bumbling awkwardness as he goes home with a girl for the first time... and then learns that he got her pregnant... with twins... all while she's going through a rather inconvenient Christianity phase. Could it be that being the good guy and doing what's right are two very different things?
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About Last Night
Title: About Last Night
Character: Ad Executive
Released: February 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Bernie and Joan are two fiery flirters who are passionate about everything from hookups to breakups and each other. When he sets up his best friend, Danny, with her roommate, Debbie, the sparks soon fly as they try to navigate the relationship minefields from the bar to the bedroom and are eventually put to the test in the real world.
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Title: Storytellers
Character: Mai Himura
Released: December 22, 2013
Type: TV
Six friends join together to tell a story that becomes increasingly dangerous and frightening. When the events of their story begin to cross over between worlds, the lines between reality and fantasy are blurred.
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Title: The New Normal
Character: Tabitha
Released: September 10, 2012
Type: TV
Los Angeles couple Bryan and David have successful careers and a loving relationship and are ready for a baby. Just as they start to worry that they will never be blessed with parenthood, they meet Goldie, a waitress who has just moved to California with her precocious eight-year-old daughter to escape from her closed-minded grandmother and a life without a future. The guys quickly work out a deal with Goldie to become their surrogate, and in the process, the little group forms a unique family unit of its own.
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Title: American Horror Story
Character: Babe
Released: October 5, 2011
Type: TV
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
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Title: Awkward.
Character: Ming Huang
Released: July 19, 2011
Type: TV
An irreverent look at the conflict, chaos and humor that defines teenage life through the eyes of 15-year-old Jenna Hamilton whose life begins to change when a simple accident becomes an epic misunderstanding and is blown way out of proportion. Narration in the first-person voice of Jenna's blog posts captures the humor within the struggles and experiences everyone can relate to from their formative years.
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Title: Mortal Kombat: Legacy
Character: Whitney (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 2011
Type: TV
The first season of Mortal Kombat Legacy is a prequel to the original game, explaining the background stories of several characters from the series and demonstrating their reasons for participating in the upcoming tenth Mortal Kombat tournament on which the first game was based.
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Title: Law & Order: LA
Character: Kai Ng
Released: September 29, 2010
Type: TV
From the tony Beverly Hills to the seedy side of Hollywood, LAPD’s elite Robbery Homicide Division is on the case. Fusing classic ripped-from-the-headlines storytelling with the backdrop of LA, the series delves into the high profile crimes of the west coast.
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Title: Two and a Half Men
Character: Jean
Released: September 22, 2003
Type: TV
A hedonistic jingle writer's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Lily
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.