What is Hsu doing now? Biography
Stephanie Hsu is an actor from the United States who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won praise from critics for her dual roles in the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once.
How old is Hsu? Age
Born Stephanie Ann Hsu, the actress is 33 years old as of 25 November 2023. He was born in 1990 in Torrance, California, United States.
Stephanie Hsu Childhood, Family – Education
Hsu was born to a single mother. In order to avoid the Chinese Civil War, her maternal grandmother fled to Taiwan from Mainland China. Hsu’s mother emigrated to the US as a teenager in search of more educational opportunities. Hsu went to high school in Palos Verdes Peninsula. Her goal was theater, so she relocated to Brooklyn. In 2012, she earned her degree from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She received training from the Atlantic Theater Company as well.
Is Hsu LGBTQ? Sexual Orientation
Hsu describes herself as queer, or more precisely as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. She is romantically involved with Britton Smith, the lead vocalist of the band “Britton and the Sting.”
Hsu Height
Stephanie stands at a height of 4 feet 11¾ inches(1.52 m).
Hsu role on American Born Chinese
Hsu plays the role of Shiji Niangniang, a recurrent character on Disney+’s original series American Born Chinese. Shiji has the appearance of a nice young Chinese woman. She wears elegant clothing to go with her business, accessorizing with rings, necklaces, and earrings that are set with different types of gemstones.
Shiji Niangniang was formerly just a common rock, but she was able to will herself into becoming a strong entity by using her willpower and heavenly abilities. She is typically portrayed as a harsh, uncaring character who would be antagonistic, especially to Nezha. She is portrayed as the mother of multiple monsters and demons, and most stories conclude with her being murdered.
In contrast to most portrayals, Shiji is a kind, if sardonic, individual who will assist anyone for a fee. She and Guanyin are presented as friends, and despite the fact that she had to discipline her pet Pixiu, she was still able to find comedy in his transformed form. Shiji appears to have no regard for people’s private lives, but she won’t think twice to take advantage of them in order to promote her products.
What is Hsu doing now?
Hsu started out in comedy and experimental theater. Hsu appeared frequently on the MTV reality comedy series Girl Code from 2013 to 2015. Joy Armstrong from the Hulu series The Path was the character she won her first recurring television role as.
Hsu was asked to read for Karen, the anthropomorphic computer, during the first table reading of The SpongeBob Musical in 2012. In 2016, she would play the role on stage in Chicago before making her Broadway debut the following year.
In the meanwhile, Hsu created the role of Christine Canigula, the lead character, in the regional Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey’s inaugural production of Be More Chill. In its off-Broadway run at the Pershing Square Signature Center in 2018 and its Broadway run at the Lyceum Theatre in 2019, she would play the same role again. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and a Lucille Lortel for her performance.
Hsu played Mei Lin in the third season of the Amazon Prime series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which debuted in 2019. The 2020 SAG Award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series was won by her and the entire cast.Hsu appeared in Asking for It, an independent film released in 2020.
Her big break came in 2022 when Hsu co-starred in A24’s absurdist comedy-drama Everything Everywhere All at Once as the nihilistic antagonist Jobu Tupaki and as Michelle Yeoh’s melancholy character’s daughter, Joy Wang. The movie had a successful premiere at the 2022 South by Southwest (SXSW), and both reviewers and viewers praised Hsu’s performance. Along with nominations for the Critics’ Choice, Screen Actors Guild, and Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress, she was given the Independent Spirit Award for Best Breakthrough Performance. She received an invitation to become an actress in the Academy in June 2023.
It was revealed in April 2021 that Hsu would feature in Adele Lim’s motion picture Joy Ride. Hsu was set to appear as a guest star on Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne’s Peacock series Poker Face in April 2021. She also made an appearance in Disney+’s American Born Chinese, where she reunited with costars Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and James Hong from Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Some of Hsu Acting Credits
Movies
♦ 2024 – Dìdi
♦ 2024 – The Fall Guy
♦ 2024 – The Wild Robot
♦ 2023 – Shortcomings
♦ 2023 – Joy Ride
♦ 2023 – The Monkey King
♦ 2023 – Leo
♦ 2022 – Everything Everywhere All at Once
♦ 2021 – Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
♦ 2020 – Asking for It
♦ 2018 – Set It Up
♦ 2010 – The Four-Faced Liar
TV Shows
♦ 2024–present – Kite Man: Hell Yeah!
♦ 2024 – The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy
♦ 2024 – RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars
♦ 2023 – Poker Face
♦ 2023 – American Born Chinese
♦ 2023 – Blue Eye Samurai
♦ 2022 – Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight
♦ 2020–2021 – Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
♦ 2019–2023 – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
♦ 2016–2018 – The Path
♦ 2016 – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
♦ 2013–2015 – Girl Code