Jessica Lu is an American actress, model, and spokesperson. She portrayed Joy Chen in season two of God Friended Me.
Biography[]
Jessica Lu was born and raised in Schaumburg, a northwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois. Her parents are from South Korea, with her father being Chinese and Japanese, and her mother Chinese. Her father is a photographer, and her mother, a singer; and since their arrival in the United States, they have run a restaurant together.
Lu has been a natural performer since early childhood. At 6 years old, she started dancing, specializing in ballet, tap, and jazz. After seeing Kristi Yamaguchi and Michelle Kwan in the Olympics on television, she pursued figure skating, taking private lessons every morning at 4 am before school. She also had singing, piano, and violin lessons. Growing up in, and having her parents’ restaurant as her stage with a daily rotating audience, Jessica would entertain each table with a theatrical reading, violin playing, a tap dance, or a song.
She started modeling and acting, and became a sought after child talent in Chicago by the time she was 10 years old, working on ad campaigns such as Calvin Klein, Oshkosh, Marshall Fields, Got Milk?, and Chicago Place, as well as commercials for McDonald's, Ford Motors, Orville Redenbacher's, Samsung, and Kaiser Permanente.
She graduated from Columbia College Chicago[1] with a degree in Musical Theatre Performance.
Career[]
Filmography[]
- Mortal Combat Rebirth (2010)
- About Last Night (2014)
Television[]
- God Friended Me
- Reverie (2018)
- American Horror Story : Hotel (2016)
- Weird Loners (2015)
- Red Band Society (2015)
- Salvation (2014)
External Links[]
Jessica Lu on IMDb