Irene Ng
Sze Irene Ng is an Malaysian-American actress, teacher and banker. She played the role of Shelby Woo in The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo, which aired on Nickelodeon between 1996 and 1999.
Early life and education
Ng was born July 28, 1974, in Penang, Malaysia. For the first five years of her life, she was raised by her maternal grandparents as her parents were at the United States for their higher studies.In 1989 at age 15, she immigrated from Malaysia to Allentown, Pennsylvania, with her parents and her sister and brother. Her father worked as a general manager for a China-owned fire-resistant filing cabinets manufacturing factory and her mother worked as a nurse at an Allentown hospital. She attended Allentown's William Allen High School and in 1993, she and her sister graduated as valedictorians from high school. At age 16, she was discovered by television agents when she won a Pennsylvania beauty contest.
During her entertainment career in the 1990s, she began her studies at Harvard University and graduated with BA in economics in 1997, and was elected member of Phi Beta Kappa and was finalist for Rhodes Scholarship. She later received certification in childcare management at New York University and also Child Development Associate credential.