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Full Name
  
Ping Wu

Books
  
Mimi's Guide

Parents
  
Nelson Ikon Wu


Role
  
Television actor

Name
  
Ping Wu

Siblings
  
Ting Wu

Born
  
16 June 1956 (age 67) (
1956-06-16
)
New Haven, Connecticut

Education
  
Washington University in St. Louis

Movies
  
The Iron Triangle, Pearl Harbor, Bubble Boy, Horrible Bosses 2, The Doctor

Similar People
  
Ting Wu, Nelson Ikon Wu, Randa Haines, Sean Anders, Michael Bay

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Ping Wu (born May 16, 1956) is an American television and film actor.

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Personal life

Wu is Chinese American. His father was author and educator Nelson Ikon Wu, and his sister, Dr. Ting Wu, is a genetics professor at the Harvard Medical School.

Ping Wu graduated in 1974 from St. Louis Country Day School (now known MICDS).

At 19, he graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, with dual bachelor's degrees, having double-majored in physics and electrical engineering. He was an electrical engineer with National Semiconductor, in Santa Clara, CA, before becoming an actor in the 1980s.

Career

He is best known for the recurring role of "Ping," the delivery boy, on the television sitcom, Seinfeld. He has also appeared on other sitcoms, such as How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, The King of Queens, Anger Management, and Rules of Engagement. He played Paul Choy in the 1988 TV mini-series, Noble House; and in 2007, appeared as Li Shung Sui in The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance. He played a Japanese officer in the 2001 film, Pearl Harbor.

He also appeared in an episode of Californication; and has been featured in several television commercials.

References

Ping Wu Wikipedia