Jessica Lu

Jessica Lu is an American actress best known for playing Ming Huang on the MTV series Awkward. Born and raised in Schaumburg, Illinois, she spent time at her parents' Chicago restaurant, where she entertained diners as a child, and she studied dance, singing, piano, violin and figure skating before graduating with honors in musical theater performance from Columbia College Chicago. She moved to Los Angeles in 2008 and was cast soon after as Ming Huang. Her television work has spanned drama and comedy, with parts on American Horror Story: Hotel, Here and Now, Two and a Half Men and Red Band Society, and in 2018 she played the tech company chief executive Alexis Barrett on NBC's Reverie, a performance IndieWire called a promising scene stealer and TVLine singled out with an honorable mention. She also appeared on CBS's God Friended Me as Joy.