Tina Huang is an American stage and television actress of Taiwanese
descent known for her recurring roles in Rizzoli & Isles and General
Hospital.Huang's parents immigrated to New York City where her two
older brothers were born. Then the family moved to Dallas, Texas,
where she was born and lived with her mother, brothers and
grandfather. Her father went back to New York because he couldn't find
work in Dallas at the time. When she turned five, the family moved
back to New York. For her, it was a cultural shock moving from the
countryside to NYC, and she "felt like I was really intellectually
challenged. How lucky was I that I got to go to the Guggenheim or the
Metropolitan Museum of Art whenever I wanted?" Huang was raised in
Chinatown and in the Lower East Side in New York City.Being a first
generation Taiwanese-American, she is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and
used her language skills to host an episode of the YouTube travel show
Resident in Shanghai, although she hesitated to return to her
"motherland" after being born and raised in America: "It dawned on me
that in Shanghai, I was a foreigner. Maybe that's part of the fear I
had coming to Shanghai, to realize I wasn't Chinese".Huang studied
theatre at LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts and graduated from
NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, She then completed Meisner technique
training at The Baron Brown Studios in Santa Monica, California, where
she moved in . Huang's practical experiences include travelling for a
-day cultural exchange with students at the University of the
Witwatersrand in South Africa, studying for a semester in Florence,
Italy, and performing in an off-Broadway musical called Kaspar Hauser,
which was created and directed by Liz Swados. Her stage credits
include the award-winning production of Amy Tan's Immortal Heart that
toured in the USA and in France in , and the production of Fairy Tale
Theatre: & Over.
descent known for her recurring roles in Rizzoli & Isles and General
Hospital.Huang's parents immigrated to New York City where her two
older brothers were born. Then the family moved to Dallas, Texas,
where she was born and lived with her mother, brothers and
grandfather. Her father went back to New York because he couldn't find
work in Dallas at the time. When she turned five, the family moved
back to New York. For her, it was a cultural shock moving from the
countryside to NYC, and she "felt like I was really intellectually
challenged. How lucky was I that I got to go to the Guggenheim or the
Metropolitan Museum of Art whenever I wanted?" Huang was raised in
Chinatown and in the Lower East Side in New York City.Being a first
generation Taiwanese-American, she is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and
used her language skills to host an episode of the YouTube travel show
Resident in Shanghai, although she hesitated to return to her
"motherland" after being born and raised in America: "It dawned on me
that in Shanghai, I was a foreigner. Maybe that's part of the fear I
had coming to Shanghai, to realize I wasn't Chinese".Huang studied
theatre at LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts and graduated from
NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, She then completed Meisner technique
training at The Baron Brown Studios in Santa Monica, California, where
she moved in . Huang's practical experiences include travelling for a
-day cultural exchange with students at the University of the
Witwatersrand in South Africa, studying for a semester in Florence,
Italy, and performing in an off-Broadway musical called Kaspar Hauser,
which was created and directed by Liz Swados. Her stage credits
include the award-winning production of Amy Tan's Immortal Heart that
toured in the USA and in France in , and the production of Fairy Tale
Theatre: & Over.
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