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->''"It's fun being able to suit up and go and kick butt and not have to worry about memorizing dialogue. It's a whole different way of acting because you're not depending on the words at all, you're really depending on everything else that you have."''

Kelly Ann Hu (born February 13, 1968 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American actress of English, Chinese, and native Hawaiian descent. She'd long been interested in singing and dancing, but also took up martial arts when her brother enrolled her in some classes. She even got interested in modeling since her cousin was one.

She took up various jobs, including modeling and drama, before she became the first Asian-American [[BeautyContest Miss Teen USA]] in 1985. After her "reign" was over, she took up modeling again, and then moved to Los Angeles to take up acting.

Her first role was a guest star as Mike's girlfriend on ''Series/GrowingPains''. She got small roles in several other shows, and a role as Jason's victim in ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan'', along with a number of other small film roles.

She then took up pageants again, becoming [[BeautyContest Miss Hawaii]] in 1993, and coming in just short of the final three in the subsequent Miss USA pageant.

Then she went back to acting, getting roles in ''Series/NashBridges'' and ''Series/MartialLaw''. She then broke into films with ''Film/TheScorpionKing'', getting more film roles, TV roles, and even voice acting roles. And she's also into politics, in terms of getting other Asian-Americans to participate.

Recently, there's been a trend that if there's a need for a DragonLady in a comicbook adaptation, odds are that she'll be playing her.

[[Music/TomLehrer It's people like this that make you realize... how little you've accomplished.]]
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!!Her works include:
* ''Anime/AfroSamurai'' - Okiku
* ''Series/ArmyWives'' - Jordana Davis (4 episodes)
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' - China White
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanSoulOfTheDragon'' - ComicBook/LadyShiva
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' - Ms. Li
* ''VideoGame/BattlefieldHardline'' - Detective Khai
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' - Suki Toyama
* ''Film/Cradle2TheGrave'' - Sona
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' - Det. Kaile Maka (4 episodes)
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Extinct|2021}}'' - News Reporter
* ''Film/FindingOhana'' - Leilani
* ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan'' - Eva Watanabe
* ''Series/GrowingPains''- Melia (3 episodes)
* ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' - Laura Hills (2010-2011, 3 episodes)
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' - Visas Marr
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'' - Doctor Anna Ripley
* ''[[Film/TheLibrarian The Librarian: Quest for the Spear]]'' - Lana
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' - D'Vorah[[spoiler:, Sindel, and Frost]]
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' - D'Vorah
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' - Li Mei
* ''Series/Numb3rs'' - Alice Chen (1 episode)
* ''Series/TheOrville'' - Admiral Ozawa
* ''Series/PacificBlue'' - Wendy Trang (1 episode)
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' - Stacy Hirano
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' - Various roles
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheSamuraiSword'' - Miyumi, Ms Miromoto
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheSpookyScarecrow'' - Maizy
* ''Film/TheScorpionKing'' - Cassandra
* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012'' - Inspector Teng
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' - Sha Shan-Nguyen
* ''Film/{{Stiletto}}'' - Detective Hanover
* ''WesternAnimation/StretchArmstrongAndTheFlexFighters'' - Miya Kimanyan
* ''Film/SurfNinjas'' - Ro-May
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' - Oroku Karai / [[spoiler: Hamato Miwa]]
* ''Film/TheTournament'' - Lai Lai Zhen
* ''Literature/TheVampireDiaries'' - Pearl
* ''Series/Warehouse13'' - Abigail Cho
* ''Film/WhatWomenWant'' - Girl in lotto commercial
* ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' - Yuriko Oyama/Deathstrike
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' - Cheshire
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!!Tropes associated with her:
* ActionGirl: Some of her heroic roles will make use of her martial arts background.
* DarkActionGirl: When she's playing a villain with fighting skills.
* MsFanservice: Many of her roles will make use of the fact that she is an extraordinarily beautiful woman. Even in her voice acting roles, her [[ContraltoOfStrength smooth, sexy contralto]] tends to make her characters very alluring.
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