- Born
- Birth nameKelly Ann Hu
- Height5′ 4½″ (1.64 m)
- On February 13th, 1968, a girl of Chinese, English, and Hawaiian ancestry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father, Herbert, was a salesman and her mother, Juanita, worked many odd jobs to help support the family. She has one older brother, Glenn. She is a former Miss Teen USA, and modeled in Japan and Italy for several months before deciding to relocate to L.A. and try her hand at show business. She received her break on TV's Growing Pains (1985) in 1987 and never looked back.
- IMDb mini biography by: John Sacksteder <jsack@ka.net> (with C-Minor edit)
- ParentsHerbert HuJuanita HuRay Takara
- RelativesGlenn Hu(Sibling)Jenelle Riley(Cousin)
- Known for playing attractive characters.
- Has a black belt in karate.
- First Asian-American to be featured on the cover of "Maxim" magazine. That issue was the biggest-selling issue in the magazine's history.
- In 1985 she was the first Asian-American female to be crowned Miss Teen USA.
- Miss Hawaii USA 1993.
- Her older brother is a US Army Lieutenant Colonel.
- I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far.
- I was doing poorly in a US history class . . . partly, I think, because Hawaii is so isolated from the rest of the country. So my mother took me to Philadelphia and Boston to see the Liberty Bell and other famous sites. I ended up getting an A in the course.
- The hardest point in my life right now is trying to figure out what I'm gonna wear.
- My brother taught me how to fight. I was the neighborhood bully.
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