Constance Tianming Wu (born 22 March 1982) is a Taiwanese American actress. Wu is known for her role as Jessica Huang in the ABC comedy series Fresh Off the Boat,for which she received critical acclaim and was nominated for the TCA and Critics' Choice Television awards. Wu was born and raised in a Taiwanese family in Richmond, Virginia. She graduated from Douglas S. Freeman High School, where she began performing in local theater at Henrico Teen Theater, HATTheatre, Theatre IV, Virginia Shakespeare Festival as well as an NYU program for six months during high school at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute Her parents emigrated from Taipei City, the capital of Taiwan. Wu said that her paternal grandparents were very poor, working as bamboo farmers and did not have the opportunity to get an education, so were unable to read and write. Her father was a biology and genetics teacher at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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