Ting-Ting Hu

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Ting-Ting Hu
Chinese name胡婷婷(traditional)
Chinese name胡婷婷(simplified)
Pinyin Hú Tíngtíng(Mandarin)
BornHu Ting-ting
(1979-09-11) September 11, 1979 (age 38)
Oxford, England, UK
Other names Judy Hu
Origin Republic of China (Taiwan)
Occupation actress
Years active 2004-present

Ting-Ting "Judy" Hu (born September 11, 1979) is an English-born Taiwanese actress.

England Country in north-west Europe, part of the United Kingdom

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Biography

She was born in Oxford and moved to Taiwan at the age of 6, and later with her parents moved to the United States for high school and college. She went to Duke University gaining a B.A. degree in Public Policy Studies, and studied her master's degree at the University of Oxford.

Oxford City and non-metropolitan district in England

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Duke University private university in Durham, North Carolina, United States

Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment and the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke.

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She is the daughter of politician Jason Hu and actress Shirley Shaw. [1] She made her debut performance in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason as a Thai prostitute.

Jason Hu Taiwanese politician

Jason Hu is a politician of the Taiwan. He was the mayor of Taichung as provincial city in 2001-2010 and as special municipality in 2010-2014. He is a member of the Kuomintang (KMT), and has been the Vice Chairman of the party since April 2014.

<i>Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason</i> (film) 2004 film by Beeban Kidron

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is a 2004 romantic comedy film directed by Beeban Kidron and written by Adam Brooks, Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies, and Helen Fielding, based on Fielding's 1999 novel of the same name. It stars Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones, Colin Firth as Mark Darcy, and Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver.

She married Julio Acconci on January 2013 and divorced him in January 2014. [2] [3] She remarried to her long term friend Adam on June 21, 2016. [4]

Filmography

Film
Year Film Role Notes
2004 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason Thai Prostitute Minor Role
2006 Breaking and Entering Wei Ping Minor Role
2008 Waiting in Beijing Nancy Main Role
Ballistic Gui Gui Supporting Role
2009 Ghosted Mei Li Main Role
Television series
Year Title Role Notes
2005 Un ciclone in famiglia Mei Li Supporting Role; Miniseries
Television guest appearances
Year Title Role Episode(s)
2005 Ultimate Force Mary "Deadlier Than the Male" (episode 1, season 3)
Afterlife Chinese Woman "Sleeping with the Dead" (episode 5, season 1)
2006 Silent Witness Verity "Terminus: Part 1" (episode 3, season 10)
2008 Hotel Babylon Carol "Episode 11" (episode 3, season 2)
Secret Diary of a Call Girl Anna "1.8" (episode 8, season 1)

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References

  1. Bruyas, Dimitri (21 September 2009). "Judy Hu walks the catwalk". The China Post.
  2. "Soler's Julio marries Taichung mayor's daughter". Asian Pop News. 17 January 2013. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  3. "Hu Ting-ting announces split". Taipei Times. January 29, 2014. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
  4. "Official account Facebook post". July 28, 2016.