Jade Wu

Jade Wu

actress, writer, director

Jade Wu was born on Jan 05, 1953 in Japan. Jade Wu's big-screen debut came with Enemy of the State directed by Tony Scott in 1998. Jade Wu is known for The Afterparty directed by Christopher Miller, Tiffany Haddish stars as Detective Danner and Sam Richardson as Aniq. The upcoming new tvshow Jade Wu plays is DMZ - Season 1 which will be released on Mar 17, 2022.

Known for Netflix/Marvel's hit "Luke Cage" as Genghis Connie Lin. In 2022, she takes on the major recurring role of Susie Lin in Ava DuVernay/Roberto Patino's HBO Max series "DMZ." Breakout lead role as Ahma Chin in the Sundance pedigree, Humanitas Award-winning film The Motel. She recurs as Judge Cara Bergen on CBS' "Bull." In 2021, she recurred as Judge Julie Tanaka in ABC's "For Life," guest starred as Cousin Rosalind in Comedy Central's "Awkwafina is Nora from Queens" and guest starred as Oleen in CBS' "Magnum, P.I."Past television guest star roles include as Linda Chu in Jenji Kohan's "Teenage Bounty Hunters," Warden Glynnis Robinson in Showtime's "Billions," recurring as the Chinese Delegate in NBC's "Blacklist,", recurred as Sul Rae Roh in NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Streets."On stage, known for playing one of four female roles, The Farmer's Wife, in Mother Courage and Her Children (2006) adapted by Tony Kushner, directed by George C. Wolfe with Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. She was nominated for Best Actress in Medea as Medea at the Edinburgh Festival.In 2019, in Play On Shakespeare in collaboration with Classic Stage and Oregon Shakespeare, she took on the roles Warwick in Henry VI/Part III, King Henry in Henry IV/Part I, Paulina in Winters Tale in collaboration.Other stage roles include Trojan Women direct by JoAnne Akalaitis at Shakespeare Theatre of DC, Off-Broadway's Primary English Class directed by Gerald Gutierrez, Red directed by Blanka Zizka and The Great American Quiz Show Scandal directed by Alan Schneider.She has developed plays written by Lucy Thurber, Susan Soon He Stanton, Leah Nanako Winkler, Jen Silverman, Max You, Teresa Huang, Don Nguyen, Alexa Junge.In addition to acting, Jade is a screenwriter, director and producer under her banner production company Cogito Ergo Productions, Inc. She is also a documentary filmmaker who has screened films as official selections of the IFP, Asian American International Film Festival, a finalist in the Sundance Producers Conference and has been a Jerome Foundation, Film/Video Arts and Ms Foundation Fellow for Documentary Filmmaking and Writing.She has created four television series which are in development and is writing her memoirs.

  • Birthday

    Jan 05, 1953
  • Place of Birth

    Tokyo, Japan
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