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Aileen Wu is known for:

  • The Chinatown Diner
    The coming-of-age drama, which explores the social fabrics of Vancouver’s Chinatown district, follows Rikki Meng, played by Wu, a beatmaker who falls in love with the The Chinatown Diner, a soon-to-be-demolished diner by day and underground hip-hop club by night.
  • Alien: Romulus
    While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
  • Skin
    In a present day post-apocalypse where New York City has become a wasteland with a resting temperature of 140 degrees, Kai struggles to find an intimate connection using an online dating device which allows you to feel someone else’s touch.

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Biography

Aileen Wu, is a Chinese-American actor, director, writer, producer currently based in Brooklyn, NY and Vancouver, BC. Throughout her teenage immigration experience, Aileen used creative storytelling as a tool to unpack the mysteries of cultural relativism. And lately, each project has been an opportunity to challenge the confines of communication and empathy. Aileen made her off-broadway acting debut in 2019 as Cordelia in Smith Street Stage’s new adaptation, LEAR: THAT OLD MAN I USED TO KNOW. In the following year, she made her directing debut through NYU’s Chinese Students & Scholars Association with her new play, THE POEM OF FORGETFULNESS, using a devised and experimental theatre approach. Recent producing credits include theatre documentary, HAMLET: REHEARSED (for Smith Street Stage), narrative short-film, FISH TANK (for the 2021 Run N’ Gun 48 Hr Filmmaking Competition) and award winning ultra-short-film CLOSING DOORS (for the 16th Annual Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon at the Vancouver Asian Film Festival).