Peggy Lu is an American actress and pharmacist, best known for her supporting role as convenience store entrepreneur and Venom host Mrs. Chen in the Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) films Venom (2018) and Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), and the promotional web series Chen's Market (2021), a role she made a cameo as in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023).
Lu was born in New York City, the daughter of a Taiwanese immigrant couple who settled in the US. Before pursuing her acting dreams, Lu followed her parents’ advice to attend higher education. She received a doctorate in pharmacy from the University of Colorado Denver. After graduating, she moved back to New York, where she began her professional acting career and also worked as a pharmacist. Her first movie is Now Chinatown, with Lu playing the role of Aunt Jiang. Lu also has appeared in numerous film and television series as a guest star, including Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, NCIS: Los Angeles, Animal Kingdom, and Always Be My Maybe, amongst others.
She currently resides in New York. She is fluent in Mandarin and English.
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American actresses of Taiwanese descent
American film actresses
American television actresses
American pharmacists
University of Colorado Denver alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)