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Jing Lusi (Chinese: 陆思敬; born 16 May 1985) is a British actress. She is best known for her roles in ''
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'', the 2018 hit film '' ''Crazy Rich Asians'''' and BAFTA nominated series '' ''Gangs of London''''. On stage, Lusi was part of the original cast of the European premiere of
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's play '' 4000 Miles''. She has presented for the
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, as well as being the focus, for the documentaries ''My Chinese New Year'' (2015) and ''Chinese New Year: The Biggest Celebration on Earth'' (2016).


Early life and education

Lusi was born on 16 May 1985 in
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, Shanghai, and moved with her parents to the United Kingdom at the age of five. Her family settled in Southampton, her father having been granted a scholarship to study a master's degree at the university. She studied at
Peter Symonds College Peter Symonds College is a sixth form college in Winchester, Hampshire, in the south of England. Founded as a boys' grammar school, it is one of the few specialist sixth form colleges which is also a boarding school. It serves Falkland Island ...
,
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, then read law at
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.


Career

Lusi's first television role was in the
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's BAFTA award-winning medical drama series ''
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''. She made her debut in 2012, playing Tara Lo. In 2013, Lusi left the cast when her character died during neurosurgery, her final episode airing on 16 April 2013. She has starred in TV shows such as ''
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'' as the villainous Lily-Anne Lau alongside
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, played detectives in ''
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'' and ''Gangs of London'', and has made guest appearances in shows like
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's
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series ''
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''. In films, Lusi has starred in the action thriller ''Survivor'' alongside
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,
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,
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and
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,
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box office hit '' ''Crazy Rich Asians'''' and '' SAS: Red Notice'' with
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Tom Hopper Thomas Edward Hopper (born 28 January 1985) is a British actor. He has appeared as Percival in ''Merlin'', Billy Bones in '' Black Sails'', Dickon Tarly in ''Game of Thrones'', and Luther Hargreeves in ''The Umbrella Academy''. Early life T ...
, based on the book ''Red Notice'' by
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. On stage, Lusi performed as Amanda in the
Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...
shortlisted play '' 4000 Miles'' at the
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and
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in London in 2013, for which she received critical acclaim.
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described her performance as, ''"cruelly well observed, and very funny... Jing Lusi nails the narcissism and the ridiculous, relentless self-promotion of the Facebook age"''. Lusi performed at
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2015 as part of a collective of comedians in ''Immigrant Diaries''; a comedy story telling show aimed to 'show a different side' to the heaviness of the topic during the General Election of the same year. In 2015–16, Lusi hosted the Chinese New Year celebrations in
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. She was the subject of the
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''My Chinese New Year'' which was broadcast on 1 March 2015.
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Filmography


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lusi, Jing Living people 1985 births Actresses from Southampton Alumni of University College London British actresses of Chinese descent Chinese emigrants to the United Kingdom British film actresses People educated at Peter Symonds College British television actresses 21st-century British actresses Actresses from Shanghai