Before Stephanie Hsu was a star on the big screen, she started out in a number of Broadway shows. Hsu, who is 32 and has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actressis fast becoming a household name following her gripping performance as the evil daughter Joy and, in every universe in the multiverse, the evil Jobu Tupaki in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.
The film received 10 more nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress and another spot for Best Supporting Actress.
Although this is Hsu’s first nomination, she has been nominated before. The actress had already made a name for herself on Broadway, where she starred in two critically acclaimed plays, and on TV, where she had a recurring role in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Prime Video. But who exactly is the actress? Here’s the full scoop on Stephanie Hsu.
Who is Stephanie Hsu?
Stephanie Ann Hsu was born in the United States on November 25, 1990. She starred in the Broadway productions of Be More Chill and The SpongeBob Musical, both as Christine Canigula and Karen the Computer, respectively.
On screen, she had a recurring role on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2019-present) before playing Joy Wang / Jobu Tupaki in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Hsu was born in Torrance, California, to a single mother.
Her mother’s mother left China for Taiwan to get away from the war. When Hsu’s mother was a teenager, she moved to the US to get a better education. Hsu attended high school on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. She moved to Brooklyn to study theater and graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2012. She also took classes with the Atlantic Theater Company.
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Hsu’s first jobs were in comedy and experimental theatre. Hsu was a regular on the MTV reality comedy show Girl Code from 2013 to 2015. She landed her first TV recurring role on the Hulu show The Path where she played Joy Armstrong. Hsu was asked to read to Karen, the humanoid computer, in the first table reading of The SpongeBob Musical in 2012.
In 2016, she would play the role on stage in Chicago and in 2017 she would make her Broadway debut. At the same time, Hsu played Christine Canigula, the main character, in the first show of Be More Chill at the local Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey.
She would reprise the role in 2018 at the Pershing Square Signature Center and in 2019 at the Lyceum Theater on Broadway. She was nominated for the Lucille Lortel Award and the Drama Desk Award for her performance. In 2019, Hsu joined the series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime as Mei Lin.
She and the rest of the cast won the Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series SAG Award for 2020. Hsu starred in the independent film Asking for It, which was released in 2020. In the A24 sci-fi comedy Everything Everywhere All At Once, Hsu played the daughter of Michelle Yeoh’s character, Joy Wang, and the villain, Jobu Tupaki.
When the film came out at South by Southwest (SXSW) in 2022, the critics loved it and Hsu was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. In April 2021, Hsu was said to star in Adele Lim’s next film.
In April 2021, it was announced by Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne that Hsu would star in the new Peacock series Poker Face. She will also be reunited with Yeoh and her Everything, Everywhere, All at Once co-star, Ke Huy Quan, in the upcoming Disney+ original movie American Born Chinese.
