Kelly Hu

Hu resides in Brentwood, California where she is co-owner of a restaurant Basic Bites. Where she plays a gardener Rosemary Boxer, who together with fellow friend and ex-policewoman Laura Thyme (Pam Ferris) solve a mystery near their work. Her subsequent movie appearances include The Scorpion King (2002), Cradle 2 the Grave (2003) and X2 (2003). Her most recent work is the murder mystery, Rosemary and Thyme. Afterwards, Hu was cast as police officers Michelle Chan in the television series Nash Bridges (1997-1998) and Chen Pei Pei on Martial Law (1998-2000). She starred in the first productions of many of his plays; in 1991 Stoppard left his wife to start a relationship with her. Rae Chang on Sunset Beach for six months in 1997. Her relationship with playwright Tom Stoppard was both personal and professional.

She was then cast as Dr. Kendal's stage career blossomed during the eighties and nineties. While the movie was not a major success it opened a new career direction for Hu in action adventure roles. Despite this, she maintained her popularity. In 1995, Hu played an undercover police officer in the movie No Way Back. After series ended, she starred in several other BBC sitcoms, none of which came anywhere near the success of The Good Life. Hu also won the title of Miss Hawaii USA in 1993. She was particularly popular with male viewers, and was voted "Rear of the Year" for her appearances wearing wellington boots.

Hu followed this with appearances on series such as Night Court, Tour of Duty, 21 Jump Street, and Melrose Place and her first movie role in Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. On her return to Britain, she found that her film appearance was not a passport to success, and her struggle to build an acting career was long and difficult, partly because of her unusual upbringing. In 1975, she got her big break with the sitcom, The Good Life, which made her a household name. After working in Japan and Italy (where she became well-known as the star of a series of ads for Philadelphia brand cream cheese), Hu moved to Los Angeles and began her acting career in 1987 with a guest starring role on the sitcom Growing Pains. Felicity made her stage debut in these productions, and at the age of nineteen, starred in the film, Shakespeare Wallah (1965), loosely based on her family's real-life experience. Ironically she found out after winning that she was prohibited from appearing in non-contest related activities for the year of her reign. They performed Shakespeare to audiences consisting mostly of schoolchildren. To gain publicity, she entered Miss Teen USA contest in 1985 and became the first Asian American to win the title. She is the younger sister of the late Jennifer Kendal and the daughter of Geoffrey Kendal, an English actor who made his living leading a repertory company on tours of India after the Second World War.

Hu's cousin was a successful model in Japan and Hu decided to follow her example. Felicity Kendal is a British actress, born in Warwickshire on September 25, 1946. She has also been interested in martial arts since her early childhood, when her older brother would arrange for her to fight neighbourhood boys. Hu has had a lifelong interest in singing and dancing. Her ethnic background is a mixture of Chinese, Hawaiian, and English.

Hu was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Kelly Ann Hu (born February 13, 1968) is an American actress.