Chuti Tiu is an Asian American

United States

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 actress of Chinese

Chinese people

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, Filipina and Spanish

Spanish people

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 descent. Tiu studied at Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

 where she earned a B.A. in Economics and Political Science. She later got a lead role in Sally Field

Sally Field

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's directorial debut Beautiful a film based on the pageant experience. Tiu has had many supporting roles in independent features such as The Specials

The Specials

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with Rob Lowe

Rob Lowe

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 and Thomas Hayden Church. Her numerous television work includes a series regular role in Desire

Desire (TV series)

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, a recurring role in the suspense thriller 24

24 (TV series)

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starring Kiefer Sutherland

Kiefer Sutherland

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, as well as guest/recurring appearances on such shows as The Closer

The Closer

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, Dragnet

Dragnet (series)

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, Charmed

Charmed

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, General Hospital

General Hospital

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and Days of our Lives

Days of our Lives

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. Chuti played Nurse Longino in the CBS series Miami Medical. She will be next seen as Lata, an attorney defending Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson

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 in the film Rampart

Rampart (film)

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, also starring Sigourney Weaver

Sigourney Weaver

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, Ben Foster, Anne Heche

Anne Heche

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 and Steve Buscemi

Steve Buscemi

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.

Tiu also has a history with pageants; in June 1987, Tiu was named the first non-Caucasian winner of the America's Junior Miss

America's Junior Miss

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 pageant; a few years later Tiu was selected as Miss Illinois

Miss Illinois

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 1994 and won a preliminary talent award at the Miss America

Miss America

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 pageant for her classical piano performance.

Tiu is very active in the community, giving her time and resources to charitable organizations such as Nourish the Children, Best Friends for Animals, the Avon Breast Cancer Walk, Orphanage Outreach, her local church, and the Thai Community Development Center.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1997	Claude's Crib	Amy Lee
1998	Jenny Jenny (TV series) Jenny is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from 1997 to 1998. The series was intended to be a star vehicle for Playboy Playmate Jenny McCarthy.-Synopsis:...	Girl
	Sister, Sister Sister, Sister (TV series) Sister, Sister is an American television sitcom about identical twin girls Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell , who were separated and adopted at birth, when one day they come face-to-face after 14 years apart....	Chante
	Beverly Hills, 90210 Beverly Hills, 90210 Beverly Hills, 90210 is an American drama series that originally aired from October 4, 1990 to May 17, 2000 on Fox and was produced by Spelling Television in the United States, and subsequently on various networks around the world. It is the first series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise...	Mia
	Moesha Moesha Moesha is an American sitcom series that aired on the UPN network from January 23, 1996 to May 14, 2001. The series stars R&B singer Brandy Norwood as Moesha Mitchell, a high school student living with her family in the Leimert Park neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles.-Overview:The show...	Physician
1999	Port Charles Port Charles Port Charles was a daytime soap opera which aired on ABC from June 2, 1997 to October 3, 2003. It is a spin-off of the serial General Hospital, which has been running since 1963 and takes place in the fictional city of Port Charles, New York...	Judy Seng
	Malcolm & Eddie Malcolm & Eddie Malcolm & Eddie is an American television sitcom that premiered August 26, 1996 on the UPN Network, and ran for four seasons. This series starred Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Eddie Griffin in the lead roles. This show was canceled after its fourth season, and aired its final episode on May 22, 2000...	Capt. Vivian Hazelwood
	The West Wing	Woman #2
	The Strip	Josette Dupree
2000	Tales of the South Seas	Tahura Savue
	Charmed Charmed Charmed is an American television series that originally aired from October 7, 1998, until May 21, 2006, on the now defunct The WB Television Network. The series was created in 1998 by writer Constance M...	Asian American Nurse
	The Steve Harvey Show The Steve Harvey Show The Steve Harvey Show is an American sitcom that aired for six seasons from August 25, 1996 to February 17, 2002 on The WB Television Network. It was created by Winifred Hervey and directed by Stan Lathan.-Synopsis:...	Masseuse
	Beautiful	Miss Hawaii Miss Hawaii The Miss Hawaii competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Hawaii in the Miss America pageant. Hawaii has twice won the Miss America title.- Winners :- External links :*...
	The Specials The Specials The Specials are an English 2 Tone ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry, England. Their music combines a "danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy and attitude", and had a "more focused and informed political and social stance" than other ska groups...	Eight
	Code Blue	Lian Cho
	MechWarrior 4: Vengeance	Resistance MechWarrior
2001	Longshot Longshot (film) Longshot: The Movie , originally titled Jack Of All Trades is a teen film directed by Lionel C. Martin. It opened briefly in select theaters in Germany. The film was not shown in theaters in North America, but rather was released as a video and DVD only available through the film's web site...	Antiques Dealer
2003	L.A. Dragnet	Mira Jameela
	24 24 (TV series) 24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...	Mae
	General Hospital General Hospital General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....	Reporter
	Days of Our Lives Days of our Lives Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...	Nurse Cheryl Noble
2004	If Love Hadn't Left Me Lonely	Ricardo's Ex-wife
	The Bold and the Beautiful The Bold and the Beautiful The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....	Audrey
2005	Greener Mountains	Woman
2006	Long-Term Relationship	Mary Margaret
	Desire Desire (TV series) Desire is an American telenovela which debuted at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central on September 5, 2006, on the American network MyNetworkTV, and ended on December 5. It was produced by Twentieth Television...	Detective Rachel Lin
2008	Tasty Time with ZeFronk Tasty Time With ZeFronk Tasty Time with ZeFronk is an animated series of five-minute long shorts produced for and airs on Disney Junior and previously on Playhouse Disney.-Summary:...	Mom
2009	For a Fistful of Diamonds	Tatiana Romanova
	Hannah Montana Hannah Montana Hannah Montana is an American television series, which debuted on March 24, 2006 on the Disney Channel. The series focuses on a girl who lives a double life as an average teenage school girl named Miley Stewart by day and a famous pop singer named Hannah Montana by night, concealing her real...	Maria Brown
2010	Miami Medical	Nurse Polly Longino
	The Closer The Closer The Closer is an American crime drama, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Georgia police detective who often closes her cases using sometimes-questionable methods...	Passenger in Elevator
2011	Coyote Hunt	Charlotte
	Rampart Rampart (film) Rampart is a drama film released in 2011. Directed by Oren Moverman and co-written by Moverman and James Ellroy, the film stars Woody Harrelson and Ice Cube. In the midst of the fallout from the Rampart scandal of the 1990s, dirty LAPD veteran Dave Brown is forced to face up to the consequences of...	TBA

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