Li Ming Hu


Li-Ming Hu is a New Zealand actress, artist, and musician. She is best known for playing Li Mei Chen in Shortland Street, Gemma/RPM Operator Silver in Power Rangers RPM, and Lisa Fong in the short film Take 3.

Biography

Li-Ming Hu was born to Chinese-Singaporean immigrant parents in Palmerston North. After receiving her master's degree in history from the University of Auckland, she started her acting career at Shortland Street portraying Li Mei Chen, who was once described as "mean and cantankerous". Her character initially began as a medical student, who quickly graduated to doctor, and was known for her ambition and abrasive manner. After a three-year stint, Li Mei was killed off with a deadly virus.
She was a Treasure Island contestant and television presenter, and starred as Gemma/RPM Operator Silver in Power Rangers RPM, which she later reprised nine years later in Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel.

Other interests

Li-Ming also holds a Master of Arts in History from the University of Auckland, where she also tutored. She worked at the New Zealand Human Rights Commission for a number of years, and is now completing a Visual Arts degree at Auckland University of Technology, with a focus on sculpture, installation and performance.
She also starred with Andy Wong in Lantern, a stage play in which both of them together play ten characters in total.
She later emigrated to the United States and, as of 2018, Li-Ming Hu was in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago masters programme. She is an artist who is part of the Riff Raff duo alongside Daphne Simons and has appeared at the Art Institute of Chicago and in Wassaic, New York., and she was a musician who formed half of the musical project The Tokey Tones, the other half being Scott Mannion.

Filmography

Television