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Date of Birth

13 February 1968, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Birth Name

Kelly Ann Hu

Height

5' 5" (1.65 m)

Mini Biography

Kelly is a fourth-generation American with Chinese-Filipino-Hawaiian and English ancestry. Her father, Herbert, was a salesman and her mother, Juanita, worked many odd jobs to help support the family. She has one older brother, Glenn. She is a former Miss Teen USA, and modeled in Japan and Italy for several months before deciding to relocate to L.A. and try her hand at show business. She got her break on TV's "Growing Pains" (1985) in 1987 and never looked back.

IMDb Mini Biography By: John Sacksteder (with C-Minor edit)

Mini Biography

Kelly is a fourth-generation American with Chinese, Hawaiian and English ancestry. Her father, Herbert, was a salesman and her mother, Juanita, worked many odd jobs to help support the family. She has one older brother, Glenn. She is a former Miss Teen USA, and modeled in Japan and Italy for several months before deciding to relocate to L.A. and try her hand at show business. She got her break on TV's "Growing Pains" (1985) in 1987 and never looked back.

IMDb Mini Biography By: cate1110@yahoo.com

Trivia

Miss Teen USA 1985.

Miss Hawaii USA 1993

Was the very first Asian American female to be crowned Miss Teen USA (1985)

Dated (1996-1998) Ahmad Ali Moussaui, an investment banker.

Her older brother is a Lt. Colonel in US Army.

She graduated from The Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu, Hawaii.

She loves to swim.

Her mother worked as a Draftsperson for city and county of Honolulu.

Father raised exotic birds.

Her first big break was as Kirk Cameron's love interest on the hit TV show, "Growing Pains" (1985).

Her cousin is the playwright Jenelle Riley

Co-owned a fast food restuarant, Basic Bites, with her ex-boyfriend.

Measurements: 33A-23-34 (as Miss Teen USA 1985), 34B-24-34 (as Miss Hawaii USA 1993), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

Has a black belt in karate.

Finished in the Top 6 at Miss USA 1993.

Winner of the Miss Photogenic award at Miss USA 1993

In May 2005, she visited with soldiers in Iraq alongside Dean Cain and Amanda Swisten. Unfortunately, she had to cut her visit short due to personal matters.

First Asian American to be featured on the cover of Maxim Magazine. At the time of publication, Kelly Hu's cover was the biggest selling issue of Maxim in their history.

Has a dog named Mushu.

Had only one line of dialog in X2 (2003).

For a recent magazine interview, she showed how she made her favorite dish -- pork lumpia (fried spring rolls).

She was cast in the attempted remake of Dark Shadows (2004) (TV) for the WB in 2003-2004. She was ironically cast as the indomitable Dr. Julia Hoffman, a role immortalized by the late Grayson Hall.

Theatre: Elementary and High School drama productions.

She successfully completed the Honolulu Marathon on Dec 10, 2006 in just under 5 hours. Finishing at 7212 place out of over 28,000 runners.

Personal Quotes

"I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far."

"I was doing poorly in a US history class," she explains, "partly, I think, because Hawaii is so isolated from the rest of the country. So my mother took me to Philadelphia and Boston to see the Liberty Bell and other famous sites. I ended up getting an A in the course."

"The hardest point in my life right now is trying to figure out what I'm gonna wear."

"My brother taught me how to fight. I was the neighborhood bully."

Where Are They Now

(May 2003) Announced that she will be performing in the play "Vagina Monologues" in Honolulu, her hometown.

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