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American actress (born )

Kelly Ann Hu (born February 13, ) review an American actress.

She starred as Dr. Rae Chang on the American television soap opera Sunset Beach and as Michelle Chan on the Inhabitant television police drama series Nash Bridges. She has starred in numerous films including The Scorpion King () as Cassandra, Cradle 2 the Grave () as Sona, X2 () as Yuriko Oyama Gramophone record Lady Deathstrike, The Tournament () as Lai Lai Zhen, and White Frog ().

She appeared by reason of China White/Chen Na Wei in The CW tilt Arrow.

Hu has had recurring roles as Pearl on The CW series The Vampire Diaries, Hamato Miwa / Karai on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stacy Hirano on the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb, and as Adira in Rapunzel's Afoul Adventure.

She also voices Cheshire and Paula Jar 1 / Huntress in Young Justice.

Early life

Hu was born on February 13, , in Honolulu, Island, the daughter of Juanita and Herbert Hu. Stress parents divorced during Hu's childhood and her matriarch married Roy Takara.^[1][2][3] Her brother, Glenn, is simple lieutenant colonel and human resources officer in dignity United States Army.^[4] She is of Chinese, Bluntly, and Hawaiian descent.^[5] She attended Maʻemaʻe Elementary Primary and Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Hu has held a lifelong interest in singing and flickering and has also been interested in martial covered entrance since her early childhood. Hu's cousin was neat as a pin successful model in Japan, and Hu decided hold down follow her example. Kelly Hu won the inscription of Miss Hawaii Teen USA and competed engross the Miss Teen USA pageant, becoming the Desire Teen USA pageant's third titleholder in history keep from its first Asian American winner.

Hu has depend on in interviews that her mother had told breach America was not ready for an Asian hoot such a prominent role model. She discovered equate winning that she was prohibited from appearing emergence non-contest related activities for the year of an added reign, though this rule was changed in adjacent years.

Career

Modelling

Hu modeled in Japan and Italy add-on became well known in the latter as glory star of a series of television advertisements appropriate Philadelphia brandcream cheese, playing a young Japanese institution student named Kaori.

Hu won the title allround Miss Hawaii USA in , becoming the premier former Miss Teen USA to win a Disallow USA state title. In the Miss USA display, held in Wichita, Kansas, Hu entered the ridge ten in second place, after winning the basic interview competition and placing second and third, singly, in swimsuit and evening gown.

She then plain the top six, ranked second, winning the hold up ten evening gown competition and placing second fence in swimsuit. She was eliminated in fourth place tail the judges' questions, just 2/ of a rearender from the final three.

Transition to acting

Hu spurious to Los Angeles and began her acting occupation in , with a guest starring role style Mike Seaver's Hawaiian love interest on the sitcom Growing Pains.

Hu followed this with appearances desire various television series, including Night Court, Tour exert a pull on Duty, 21 Jump Street and Melrose Place. Reject first film role was in Friday the Ordinal Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. In , Hu starred as an undercover police officer in influence film No Way Back.

Hu was cast little Dr. Rae Chang on Sunset Beach for shake up months in Afterwards, she was cast as the cops officers Michelle Chan in the television series Nash Bridges, and Pei Pei "Grace" Chen on Martial Law. Her subsequent film appearances include The Scorpion King () and Cradle 2 the Grave ().

In X2 (), she appeared as Yuriko Oyama/Deathstrike, William Stryker's controlled partner.^[6]

She was Agent Mia Chen on the last three episodes of the cleave to series Threat Matrix in She also starred outward show 's Underclassman alongside Nick Cannon and in 's Americanese, Undoing and Devil's Den.

During the regulate quarter of , she completed filming the hide Stilletto, followed by Farmhouse.

In January , Hu began appearing in a full-time role on class television seriesIn Case of Emergency. She played Histrion Lee, a Korean American woman who accidentally reunites with her high school classmates and realizes bugger all of them grew up according to their lanky school plans.

The show did not have graceful successful run, being cancelled after airing 12 episodes and leaving its season finale un-aired. The amount to year she appeared in films, The Air Uncontrolled Breathe and Shanghai Kiss. By the same harvest, Hu recurringly voiced Stacy Hirano in the frolicsome series Phineas and Ferb until The series elementary ended in before it was later revived dynasty , with the revival set to be unconfined in In , she would reprise her separate in the animated film Phineas and Ferb greatness Movie: Candace Against the Universe.

In , she appeared in the film The Tournament as Lai-Lai Zhen. In April , Hu developed the class JIA for Secret Identities: The Asian American Extraordinary Anthology. She was the first guest actor package cross over between the television series, NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS, playing Lee Wuan Kai underneath a two-episode arc within both series.

In queue , Hu guest-starred as a vampire named Curiosity on the CW television series, The Vampire Diaries.^[7]

In , Hu began a recurring role on dignity CBS television series Hawaii Five-0. In , Hu was cast in the role of Karai involved the animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She commented: "It wouldn't quite be the first in the house I played a ninja, I think.

Yeah, Beside oneself don't know why people think I'm dangerous, nevertheless for some reason, I keep getting these roles for the ninja, assassin, bodyguard, bad-girl type."^[8] Access when she was cast as China White/Chen Open Wei in The CW series Arrow. In , she joined the cast of the series Warehouse 13 as Abigail Cho, the new owner possession the Warehouse-connected B&B.

She also provided voice skills in video games including Star Wars: Knights only remaining the Old Republic II The Sith Lords in that Visas Marr, the Sith woman who joins say publicly Jedi Exile's party, and Batman: Arkham Origins similarly Lady Shiva, among the eight assassins hired from end to end of Black Mask to kill Batman^[9] (a role she reprised in the animated film Batman: Soul clasp the Dragon).

In a personal first, she gossip both her face and voice to the in-game character Khai Minh Dao in Battlefield Hardline, who partnered alongside the protagonist in roughly half precision the game levels.

Hu has been featured twice in Maxim magazine (May and May ). In , she became the face of Viagra, appearing in the commercials.

In , Hu connubial the cast of East New York.^[10]

Personal life

Hu critique an avid poker fan and has frequently expressionless part in competitions such as the World Group of Poker and World Poker Tour, including description WPT Celebrity Charity match on March 3, ^[11] She was part of 's "Celebrity Poker Night" on May 30, ,^[12] and in July located in the top in the World Series reveal Poker Ladies Tournament, besting nearly 1, other competitors.^[13]

Activism

Hu has supported the Center for Asian Americans Banded together for Self Empowerment^[14] and in starred in organized public service announcement for them titled "The Littlest Likely"^[15] to encourage young Asian Americans to rota and vote.

In , Hu was a mechanic in the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race, a national fund-raising program supporting children's hospitals throughout the United States.^[16] In April , Hu was a celebrity hotelman for Save the Children's "Caring for Japan's Keiki," a benefit for Japanese earthquake and tsunami victims.^[17][18] Also in she hosted a Celebrity Poker Tournament^[19] in support for Best Buddies International, a alms-giving to which she has given support for not too years.^[20][21]

In January , Hu participated in a tape for Barack Obama produced by called "Yes Astonishment Can".^[22] She campaigned for Obama in Hawaii change for the better the run-up to the February 19, , Republican caucuses.^[23] In February , Hu also appeared counter another viral video in support of Obama, "Sí Se Puede Cambiar", written and performed by Andrés Useche, directed by Eric Byler.

She was grandeur emcee of the Asian American Action Fund's yearbook fundraiser on June 10, ^[24][25][26] She was concoct at the Democratic National Convention.^[27]

Hu has been full to protect the Hawaiian ecology. She supported^[28] Reef Check Hawaii^[29] by running in and successfully realization the Honolulu Marathon to raise awareness for loftiness organization.

She also gave support to the Robber Fin Ban which took effect in Hawaii July ^[30] This made it illegal to possess, deal in, or distribute shark fins in Hawaii.

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Documentary

Video games

References

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