Ping Wu

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

Personal life

Wu is Chinese–American. His father was author and educator Nelson Ikon Wu, and his sister, 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, California, before becoming an actor in the 1980s.

Career

Wu is best known for the recurring role of "Ping," the delivery boy, on the television sitcom, Seinfeld.^[1] 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 appeared in the 1988 TV mini-series, Noble House, Rock Hudson and The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance. He played a Japanese officer in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor, as well as a physician in the 1991 medical drama The Doctor.^[1]

He appeared in three episodes of the fourth season of 24.

He also appeared in an episode of Californication; and has been featured in several television commercials.^[2][3]

He appeared in Fresh Off The Boat and has a recurring role as on Silicon Valley.

Wu has also worked as a voice actor in the video game Fallout 4.

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