Jing Lusi

Early life and education

Jing Lusi was born in Pudong, Shanghai, China, and moved with her parents to the United Kingdom at the age of five. Her family settled in Southampton, her father having been granted a scholarship to study a master's degree at the university. She studied at Peter Symonds College, Winchester, then read law at University College London.

Career

Jing Lusi's first television role was in the BBC's BAFTA award-winning medical drama series Holby City. She made her debut in 2012, playing Tara Lo. In 2013, she left the cast when her character died during neurosurgery, her final episode airing on 16 April 2013. She has starred in TV shows such as Stan Lee's Lucky Man as the villainous Lily-Anne Lau alongside James Nesbitt, played detectives in Scott & Bailey and Gangs of London, and has made guest appearances in shows like Matthew Weiner's anthology series The Romanoffs.

In films, she has appeared in the 2015 action thriller Survivor, and was in the main cast of Crazy Rich Asians (2018) as Amanda Ling and Heart of Stone (2023) as MI6 agent Theresa Yang.

On stage, Jing Lusi performed as Amanda in the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted play 4000 Miles at the Theatre Royal, Bath and The Print Room in London in 2013, for which she received critical acclaim. The Independent described her performance as, "cruelly well observed, and very funny... Jing Lusi nails the narcissism and the ridiculous, relentless self-promotion of the Facebook age".

She performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015 as part of a collective of comedians in Immigrant Diaries; a comedy story telling show aimed to 'show a different side' to the heaviness of the topic during the General Election of the same year.

In 2015–16, she hosted the Chinese New Year celebrations in Trafalgar Square and was the subject of the BBC One programme My Chinese New Year, which was broadcast on 1 March 2015.

She starred in a lead role for the ITV series Red Eye in 2024. The series was picked up for a second season in 2025.

Personal life

In 2021 and 2025 Lusi was a key witness in high-profiles court cases involving Noel Clarke, in which she, along with many other women, alleged that he had engaged in sexual misconduct.

Filmography

References

References

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5. Kilkelly, Daniel. (29 November 2012). "'Holby City' Jing Lusi: 'Tara, Ollie should stay together'".
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7. [http://www.the-print-room.org/page53.htm 4000 Miles] {{webarchive. link. (3 July 2013 The Print Room.)
8. Wicker, Tom. (23 May 2013). "4000 Miles".
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10. Williams, Holly. (23 May 2013). "Theatre review: 4000 Miles, The Print Room, London". The Independent.
11. Paternoster, Tamsin. (24 August 2015). "Edinburgh Fringe Review: Immigrant Diaries: Sajeela Kershi and Guests, The Assembly Rooms".
12. Kebble, Mark. (20 February 2015). "Jing Lusi Hosts Chinese New Year Extravaganza".
13. (1 March 2015). "My Chinese New Year".
14. Mangan, Lucy. (21 April 2024). "Red Eye review – the mile-high mystery that wishes it were Hijack".
15. Lang, Neil. (15 May 2025). "Jing Lusi and Martin Compston first look preview of Red Eye II".
16. Siddique, Haroon. (28 March 2025). "Actor said Noel Clarke's Bafta award would hand him 'loaded gun' against women, court told".
17. Peplow, Gemma. (22 August 2025). "The key allegations against Noel Clarke".
18. (5 January 2026). "Actress said she feared Noel Clarke would use Bafta to "lure women to lair" court told".