Tina Huang

Tina Huang
Tina Huang as Susie Chang on Rizzoli & Isles
Born	Dallas, Texas, United States
Residence	Los Angeles
Alma mater	Tisch School of the Arts
Occupation	Stage and television actress
Years active	2007–present
Website	www.tinahuang.com

Tina Huang is an American stage and television actress of Taiwanese descent known for her recurring roles in Rizzoli & Isles and General Hospital.

Tina Huang's parents immigrated to New York City where her two older brothers were born. Then the family moved to Dallas, Texas, where Tina was born and lived with her mother, brothers and grandfather. Her father went back to New York because he couldn't find work in Dallas at the time. When Tina turned five, her parents just wanted to live together again, and so the family moved back to New York, being for her a cultural shock moving from the country side to NYC, and she felt like I was really intellectually challenged. How lucky was I that I got to go to the Guggenheim or the Metropolitan Museum of Art whenever I wanted? Tina Huang raised in Chinatown and in the Lower East Side in New York City.

Being a first generation Taiwanese-American, she is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and used her language skills to host an episode of the YouTube travel show Resident in Shanghai, although Tina Huang hesitated to return to her "motherland" after being born and raised in America: It dawned on me that in Shanghai, I was a foreigner. Maybe that’s part of the fear I had coming to Shanghai, to realize I wasn’t Chinese.

Tina Huang studied theatre at the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts and graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, then after completed Meisner technique training at The Baron Brown Studios in Santa Monica, California, where she moved in 2003. Huang's practical experiences include travelling for a 14-day cultural exchange with students at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, studying for a semester in Florence, Italy, and performing in an off-Broadway musical called Kaspar Hauser which was created and directed by Liz Swados. Her stage credits include the award winning production of Amy Tan's Immortal Heart that toured in the USA and in France in 2010, and the 2012 production of Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over.