Johnny Lu (, born May 8, 1977) is an American-Taiwanese actor.

Life and career

Lu was born in

Taipei City Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the ...

, Taiwan. His father, , was one of the founding members of the

Bamboo Union The United Bamboo Gang (UBG; ; Bamboo Union triad) is the largest of Taiwan's three main criminal Triads. They are reported to have roughly 10,000 members. The membership consists largely of '' waishengren'' (Mainland Chinese) and has had his ...

triad in Taiwan. Lu's parents divorced, and then at the age of eight Lu moved to America, where he spent the rest of his childhood. He later attended

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Franci ...

Irvine, California Irvine () is a master-planned city in South Orange County, California, United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Irvine Company started developing the area in the 1960s and the city was formally incorporated on December 28, 197 ...

, earning a

bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...

in English studies. After various modeling work, Lu crossed over to acting in 2002, and subsequently had small roles in films such as '' Lost in Time'', ''

Fantasia Fantasia International Film Festival (also known as Fantasia-fest, FanTasia, and Fant-Asia) is a film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996. Regularly held in July of each year, it is valued by both hardcore ...

'' and ''

Driving Miss Wealthy ''Driving Miss Wealthy'' () is a 2004 Hong Kong romantic comedy film directed by James Yuen and reunites ''La Brassieres Lau Ching-wan and Gigi Leung. In the film, Lau poses a chauffeur hired to look after the spoiled rich woman played by Le ...

''. In 2008, he returned to Taiwan and appeared in his first Mandarin-language series, ''Police et vous'', playing the role of a businessman. Lu then starred in numerous television series such as ''Who's The One'', ''Next Heroes'', ''In Between'', ''True Love 365'', ''

Life Plan A and B ''Life Plan A and B'' () is a 2016 Taiwanese melodrama created and produced by TTV. It stars Rainie Yang, Yan Yulin and Johnny Lu. It is the second instalment in Q Series. First original broadcast began on October 7, 2016 on TTV airing every Frid ...

'', as well as the film '' 100 Days'', which was released in 2013.

Personal life

Lu married his high school girlfriend, Tammi, in Los Angeles in 2008. They have a son and a daughter.

Filmography

Television series

Film

Variety show

Music video

Discography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lu, Johnny 1977 births Living people 21st-century Taiwanese male actors Taiwanese male film actors Taiwanese male television actors 21st-century American male actors American male film actors American male television actors Male actors from Taipei University of California, Irvine alumni