Harry Shum Jr. Height, Age, Wife, Children Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Harry Shum Jr.

• His parents are Chinese immigrants. His mother is a native of Hong Kong, and his father is from Guangzhou, China.

• His family relocated to Costa Rica, where Shum and his two older sisters were born. When Shum was just six years old his family moved to San Francisco, California.

• Initially, Harry Shum had keen interest in theater and sports, but he found his passion for dance after he auditioned for his high school dance team as a part of a dare.
• Harry Shum attended San Francisco State University for a year, later he dropped out of the college to pursue a dance as a professional career.

• He speaks English, Spanish and Chinese. Harry’s first language is Spanish before he learned Cantonese and English. He later clarified that he has not spoken Spanish fluently since the age of 6.

• Shum started his career in Los Angeles, when he was 18 years old, he was spotted by the choreographers Rosero McCoy and Jamal Sims to go on a UK tour with the singer Kaci.

• In 2004, he joined Beyonce, Alicia Keys, and Missy Elliott in their co-headlining tour Ladies First.

• He appeared in several music videos like Lose My Breath (2009) by Destiny’s Child and It’s Like That (2009) by Mariah Carey. He has also worked as a dance instructor.

• In 2011, Harry Shum was a part of a short action film 3 Minutes, which was directed by Ross Ching and produced by Don Le and George Wang.

• Shum has appeared in various films like Step Up 2: The Streets (2008), Step Up 3D (2010), White Frog (2012), Revenge of the Green Dragons (2014), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), the Hulu web series The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers (2010) and the YouTube Originals series Single by 30 (2016).

• Shum has done some voiceover work. He made a guest appearance in the Paramount plus animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks, where he voiced the character of Rawda.

• In 2019, Shum was seen in a psychology thriller TV series’ 4th episode of “Tell Me a Story”.

• March 2020, he appeared in a guest role in one of the episodes of the TV series Comedy Central’s Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens.

• In March 2022, he appeared in a supporting role in the critically acclaimed academy award-winning film named Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).

• In October 2022, Shum became a part of the cast of TV series Grey’s Anatomy season 19 as surgical intern Dr. Benson “Blue” Kwan.

• In 2023, Shum voiced Brainiac 5 in DC Studios’ animated film set in the Tomorrow verse named Legion of Super-Heroes.

• In 2023, Shum narrated the PBS Nature documentary The Hummingbird Effect.

• He is an avid dog lover. He had a pet dog named which passed away last year.

• He is a reader. He spends his leisure time reading books.