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Kelly Ann Hu (born February 13, 1968) is an United
States|American actress.

Hu was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her ethnic
background is a mixture of Chinese, Hawaiian, and
English.  

Hu has had a lifelong interest in singing and
dancing. She has also been interested in martial
arts since her early childhood, when her older
brother would arrange for her to fight
neighborhood boys. Hu's cousin was a successful
model in Japan and Hu decided to follow her
example. To gain publicity, she entered Miss Teen
USA contest in 1985 and became the first Asian
American to win the title. Ironically she found
out after winning that she was prohibited from
appearing in non-contest related activities for
the year of her reign.

After working in Japan and Italy (where she became
well-known as the star of a series of ads for
Philadelphia brand cream cheese), Hu moved to Los
Angeles and began her acting career in 1987 with a
guest starring role on the sitcom Growing Pains.
Hu followed this with appearances on series such
as Night Court, Tour of Duty (tv series)|Tour of
Duty
, 21 Jump Street, and Melrose Place and her first
movie role in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason
Takes Manhattan. Hu also won the title of Miss
Hawaii USA in 1993.

In 1995, Hu played an undercover police officer in
the movie No Way Back. While the movie was not a
major success it opened a new career direction for
Hu in action adventure roles. She was then cast as
Dr. Rae Chang on Sunset Beach (soap opera)|Sunset
Beach for six months in 1997. Afterwards, Hu was
cast as police officers Michelle Chan in the
television series Nash Bridges (1997-1998) and
Chen Pei Pei on Martial Law (1998-2000). Her
subsequent movie appearances include The Scorpion
King (2002), Cradle 2 the Grave (2003) and X2
(movie)|X2 (2003). She provided voice talents for
the popular video game Star Wars: Knights of the
Old Republic II: The Sith Lords as Visas Marr, the
Sith woman who joins the Exile's party.

Hu resides in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California
where she is co-owner of a restaurant Basic Bites.

==External links==
*http://www.cultsirens.com/hu/hu.htm Cult Sirens:
Kelly Hu
*http://www.kellyhu.com Kelly Hu.com (official
site)
*http://www.kellyhu.net Kelly Hu.net (fan site)
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005026 IMDB Entry