Peggy Lu is an American

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...

and

pharmacist A pharmacist, also known as a chemist (Commonwealth English) or a druggist (North American and, archaically, Commonwealth English), is a healthcare professional who prepares, controls and distributes medicines and provides advice and instructi ...

, best known for her

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entrepreneur and Venom host Mrs. Chen in the

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(SSU) films ''

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'' (2018) and '' Venom: Let There Be Carnage'' (2021), and the promotional web series '' Chen's Market'' (2021), a role she made a cameo as in '' Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse'' (2023). Lu was born in New York City, the daughter of a

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immigrant couple who settled in the US. Before pursuing her acting dreams, Lu followed her parents’ advice to attend higher education. She received a doctorate in pharmacy from the

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. After graduating, she moved back to New York, where she began her professional acting career and also worked as a pharmacist. Her first movie is ''Now Chinatown'', with Lu playing the role of Aunt Jiang. Lu also has appeared in numerous film and television series as a guest star, including '' Kung Pow: Enter the Fist'', '' NCIS: Los Angeles'', '' Animal Kingdom'', and '' Always Be My Maybe'', amongst others. She currently resides in New York. She is fluent in

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and

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* Living people American actresses of Taiwanese descent American film actresses American television actresses American pharmacists University of Colorado Denver alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-film-actor-stub