Krista Marie Yu

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Krista Marie Yu
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Yu in 2016
Born (1988-10-25) October 25, 1988 (age 35)
Education Carnegie Mellon University (BFA)
OccupationActress
Years active2010–present

Krista Marie Yu (born October 25, 1988) is an American actress best known for her roles on television. She played the main role of Molly Park on the ABC family sitcom Dr. Ken . In August 2018, it was announced that Yu would play the recurring role of Jen on Fox's Last Man Standing . [1] On January 18, 2019, Fox announced that Yu had been promoted to series regular. [2]

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Early life

Yu was born in Alameda, California, on October 25, 1988. She is a fifth generation Chinese American. [3] Yu began taking ballet lessons at three years old. [3]

Yu graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA in acting in 2011. [4]

Career

Yu is an actress and has appeared on television shows such as The Thundermans , Switched at Birth and Agent Carter , among others. [4] She also played a major role in the Corridor Digital web series/ YouTube movie Sync and appeared in WongFu Productions web series Just Another Nice Guy . [5]

In 2015, Yu joined the cast of Dr. Ken , a television sitcom inspired by series lead Ken Jeong's time as a physician, playing Ken's daughter, Molly. [6] [7]

In January 2019, Yu was promoted to series regular on the television sitcom Last Man Standing as foreign exchange student, Jen. [8]

Filmography

Films

Television

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References

  1. Schwartz, Ryan (August 20, 2018). "Last Man Standing Pages Dr. Ken Alum for Foreign Exchange Student Role". TVLine .
  2. Denise Petski (January 18, 2019). "'Last Man Standing': Krista Marie Yu Promoted To Regular On Fox Series". Deadline. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
  3. 1 2 Chew, Cohan (2016-11-04). "INTERVIEW: Krista Marie Yu - "Actors have a job to reflect our world. To give people a voice"". Resonate. Retrieved 2020-01-17.
  4. 1 2 Weik, Taylor. "Actress Krista Marie Yu Comes of Age in Dr. Ken". NBC News. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  5. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine : Sync - The Movie. YouTube .
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