Jennifer Lim

Jennifer Lim

Birth : 1979-01-01, Hong Kong

History

Jennifer Lim attended the Yale School of Drama, where she received her MFA in Acting. She is half Chinese and half Korean, and speaks Cantonese and Mandarin fluently (as well as basic Korean). She made her Broadway debut starring in David Henry Hwang's Chinglish, and has worked Off-Broadway and in many prominent downtown NYC and regional theaters. In addition to her theater work, Jennifer has appeared on film and television, especially in tv police procedurals.

Profile

Jennifer Lim
Jennifer Lim

Movies

Naked Singularity
Assistant DA #1
When a successful New York public defender loses his first case, he is pulled into a drug heist by a former client in an effort to beat the broken system at its own game.
The Surrogate
Nadine the Midwife
Jess is thrilled to be the surrogate for her best friend and his husband, but when a prenatal test comes back, it creates a moral dilemma that threatens their friendship.
The Stand In
Vicky
When ordered to serve a year in rehab, actress Candy hires her on-set stand-in to take her place. The unassuming woman flips the script and steals her identity, career and boyfriend in this hilarious comedy about trading places.
Leviathan Cycle, Episode 6: Ding Ling & Senait
Ding Ling
Ding Ling is a research scientist who fled Indonesia in the wake of rising sea levels, and at the start of the episode disembarks from the cargo ship on which she had been living. She moves onwards to explore new/old territories, revealing something of her past in Indonesia and China via Singapore as the episode progresses. During her journey she meets the resourceful Senait, an Eritrean refugee who subsists by evaporating water from the Dead Sea to make it potable. In her ongoing effort to compile an archive of those who remain, Ding Ling records an interview with Senait, where Senait recounts her own peripatetic past and perilous journey through Sudan.
Leviathan Cycle, Episode 5: Ismael
Ding Ling
Our protagonists are taken captive aboard a gigantic cargo ship, whose megalomaniacal captain Ismael entertains biblical pretensions. Ben is made to ‘pay his passage’, while a ghostly Yasmine stalks the empty corridors of the ship. Whales and whaling become a key subject – interrogating colonial and indigenous politics in the process.
Leviathan Cycle, Episode 4: Jamila
Ding Ling
Ben and Yasmine continue further south to the Moroccan coast, where they are attacked by Jamila and her group of parasitic bandits. The ethics of survival and predator-prey relationships in both human and marine species are explored, as members of another group intervene. But is this out of the frying pan and into the fire for the protagonists?
Impossible Monsters
Alice
A psychology professor begins a case study with three subjects who are suffering from sleep paralysis. As the study goes on, what is real and what is dream become mingled with violent consequences.
27 Dresses
Bridal Salesgirl
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.
The Savages
Manicurist #1
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.