Teresa Victoria Carpio was born on 5th April 1981 and is an American actress and singer.
22 Facts About TV Carpio
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TV Carpio is best known for her breakthrough role as Prudence in the film Across the Universe, in which she sang the Beatles song "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
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TV Carpio gained further recognition for playing Valerie in Limitless and Shelby Prince in the Lifetime television series The Client List.
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TV Carpio is known for her starring roles in theatre, including Arachne in the original Broadway production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and Eurydice in the Citadel Theatre production of Hadestown.
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Teresa Victoria TV Carpio was born in April 1981 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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TV Carpio is the daughter of Hong Kong singer Teresa Carpio, with whom she has performed on stage as a guest singer, including at the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
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TV Carpio's father was Peter Mui, a fashion designer who founded YellowMan, a successful tattoo clothing brand, and co-founded Tungtex Holdings Co.
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TV Carpio spent much of her childhood at an international school in Hong Kong and then, at the age of 11, moved to Springfield, Missouri.
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TV Carpio initially was an ice skater and planned on pursuing that as a career to become an Olympic ice skater but she was injured and realized as a teenager that she was not good enough.
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TV Carpio studied jazz vocals for two years at The New School.
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TV Carpio danced with NSYNC at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, performed on Last Call with Carson Daly, and danced in music videos for Bruce Springsteen and Whitney Houston.
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In 2001, TV Carpio was a contestant on The WB television show Popstars, alongside Nicole Scherzinger, but did not win.
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TV Carpio portrayed Gail in She Hate Me and had her first major role as Angela Tsing in Sucker Free City, both films directed by Spike Lee.
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TV Carpio made her Broadway debut in Rent as Alexi Darling and others, from December 2006 until April 2007.
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TV Carpio decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career.
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TV Carpio's breakthrough came when she played Prudence, a cheerleader in love with another female cheerleader but the love is unrequited, in the film Across the Universe, in which she sang a rendition of the Beatles song "I Want to Hold Your Hand", directed by Julie Taymor.
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From 2010 to 2011, she starred in the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, directed by Julie Taymor, with whom TV Carpio had worked a few years earlier.
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TV Carpio suffered a neck injury during a performance in March 2011.
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TV Carpio made a full recovery and returned to the show over two weeks later.
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TV Carpio has continued making various acting appearances on television, in films, and on stage.
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TV Carpio then portrayed Sophie, a deaf woman, in the short film Noise which debuted in October 2018 at the Austin Film Festival and was released online on September 13,2019, on Omeleto.
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In 2019, TV Carpio performed in the ensemble of Little Shop of Horrors at the Pasadena Playhouse.