Justin Chu Cary

Justin Chu Cary
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Born	Oakland, California, USA
🏳️ Nationality	African-American, Chinese
💼 Occupation	Actor, Visual Artist
🌐 Website	www.justinchucary.com

Justin Chu Cary is an American actor, writer, and visual artist. He is a series regular on Netflix’s forthcoming, Black Summer (2019). He has also made appearances on popular shows like Jane the Virgin, S.W.A.T., NCIS, and Days of Our Lives. For his work in the Fountain Theatre production of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s, In the Red and Brown Water, Justin and his cast received the LADCC Award for Best Ensemble.

Early Life

Justin Chu Cary was born in Oakland, California. He was raised in Berkeley, California. The oldest son of an African American father and a Chinese American mother, Cary credits his biracial background with helping to provide a unique perspective on characters and culture, and he has been quoted as saying “I’ve always looked at acting as such a great platform to break down barriers and for people of color to be fully assimilated into the American culture.”

His father, Victor Cary, is a Senior Director at the National Equity Project . His mother, Nancy Chu, retired from her position as the Assistant Vice Provost at UC Berkeley in 2012 . As passionate educators, both of his parents inspired Cary to always pursue work of meaning and substance.

With an early pull to visual arts, Cary won a statewide visual art competition in 4th and 6th grade, and has never really looked back. He is an alumnus of Berkeley High School where he ran track and was the captain of his wrestling team. Cary was recruited to the University of California, Davis for Track & Field and ran the 800M and 4x400M relays. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a double minor in Theater and Visual Arts.

Career

After graduating from UC Davis, Cary moved back to the Bay Area where he became heavily involved in the local theater scene. In 2009, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue film and television.

Early on in LA, Cary made a living off of visual art, graphic and web design jobs. He also booked several commercial and modeling campaigns for companies like Nike, Target, Foot Locker, Ford, and others. Never pulling away from his love for theater, he also appeared in many small stage productions including, The Meeting, The Death of The Last Black Man In The Whole Entire World, and In The Red and Brown Water, the latter for which he and his cast received the LADCC Award for Best Ensemble. Cary also studied at and performed with the Upright Citizens Brigade and The Actors Gang, and currently trains at the prestigious Actors Studio .

Cary’s television debut came with a 6-episode recurring role on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives. Since then, he has made co-star and guest-star appearances on popular shows like Jane the Virgin, Supergirl, S.W.A.T., and NCIS. Cary made the jump to his first feature film in, Blindspotting – a project written by and starring lifelong friends and fellow Berkeley High alumni Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs .

In 2018, Cary was cast as a series regular on Netflix’s forthcoming, Black Summer (2019).

Personal Life

Cary frequently collaborates on writing projects with his younger brother, Nico Cary – a screenwriter, poet, and music producer .

In college, Cary met his wife, Hagerenesh Solomon-Cary, a city planner. The couple lives in California with their daughter, Liyu .

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