Constance Wu is an American actress.

Wu was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother is a computer programmer and her father is a college professor. Both are Taiwanese immigrants. Wu grew up in Richmond performing in the local community theatre scene. At 16, she moved to New York to study at the famed Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

While in New York, she worked in classical theatre and then transitioned to film work. She soon appeared in several Sundance Feature Films including Stephanie Daley, and Year of the Fish.

In 2010, she moved to Los Angeles where she landed a role in another Sundance Feature, The Sound of My Voice.

On television, she appeared in episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Torchwood, and Covert Affairs, and had a recurring role as Laudine Lee on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live in 2007.

In 2014, she was cast as Jessica Huang in the ABC comedy series, Fresh Off the Boat. Based on Eddie Huang's memoir, it is set in the 1990s and revolves around a Taiwanese family that moves to suburban Orlando.



In 2018, she starred as Rachel Chu, an American college professor who dates a Singaporean multi-millionaire (Henry Golding), in the smash romantic comedy hit Crazy Rich Asians.