Renee Lim Explained

Birth Name:Renee Li-Yen Lim
Birth Place:Perth, Australia

Renee Li-Yen Lim[1] (born) is an Australian actress, television presenter, and medical doctor. She is best known for her roles as Constable Jung Lim in East West 101, Mae in Please Like Me and her recurring role as Vivienne Hart in The Secret Daughter.

Early life and education

Lim was born in Perth, Western Australia to Chinese-Malaysian parents[2] who had migrated from Malaysia to Australia in the 1970s.[3] When she was five years old, her parents divorced.[2] Lim was primarily raised by her single father.[2] Her mother moved to Malaysia[2] and remarried, with a Peranakan man.[4] Lim would often travel to Malaysia, where she had family other than her mother, to visit her mother.[2] Lim's father later also remarried, and had a son with his new wife when she was 12 years old.[2]

Lim graduated as the dux of her high school Hampton Senior High School.[2] [5] Few from Lim's high school pursued tertiary studies, and she had initially intended to "be a doctor on weekdays, a lawyer on weekends, an actor on the holidays and a dancer at night".[2]

At 17 years old, Lim moved to Sydney, New South Wales to commence medical studies at the University of New South Wales, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 2001.[6]

In 2000, Lim co-directed the University of New South Wales Medical Revue, American Booty (an homage to the 1999 film American Beauty), alongside Keith Lim and Jason Appleby.[7] Also during her university studies, Lim co-authored two academic articles.[8] [9]

Career

Medical career

Lim is a physician, mostly working in part-time, locum posts in emergency medicine, geriatrics, and palliative care departments,[10] [11] [2] [5] and a clinical lecturer at the University of Sydney's Northern Clinical School.[12] She is the Director of Programs at the Pam McLean Centre, an organisation that develops communication training for medical professionals.

Lim considered leaving medical practice altogether to focus on acting; however, she realised that she "love[d] it", adding that "acting is now my job opposed to my hobby".[11]

Entertainment career

As an actor, Lim made ten guest appearances on the Australian hospital drama All Saints as Suzi Lau, and appeared as a regular cast member on SBS's police drama East West 101 as Jung Lim.[13] Lim played Mae, the younger Thai girlfriend of Josh's father, in Please Like Me, and starred in Forget Me Not in 2014,[14] and in The Secret Daughter, Wonderland and Pulse in 2016.

As a presenter she has appeared on the ABC's Ask The Doctors, and on Food Investigators and Destination Flavour.

Lim creates content for Nay In The Life, a multi-platform project that combines video, theatre and written content centred around well-being and personal development.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2004Paramedic #2Short
2005Cindy KwokShort
2006In OppositionColleenShort
2009AbbieShort
2009RoseDead ThingShort
2009First DateKimShort
2009Polla/MarkPollaShort
2009FallenLindaShort
2011Lisa Lung
2012Dead Moon CircusRei Hino / Sailor Mars
2013Dead Moon Circus 2Rei Hino / Sailor Mars
2013RanaShort
2014Ad NauseamChlorine
2014Forget Me NotJennifer
2020Never Too LateLin
2020The DrySandra Whitlam
2021Sydney Stories Call Girl
2021Mary's RoomShuShort
2022Dark NoiseJill Croker

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2003White Collar BlueHousekeeper"2.22"
2007–11East West 101Jung LimMain role
2008–09All SaintsSuzi LauRegular role
2010Packed to the RaftersAnh"Out of the Comfort Zone"
2011CrowniesDet. Karen LiuRecurring role
2012AlexRegular role
2013–14Atomic KingdomVerity Long / Jade Long"Elite", "Bound by Blood", "Bitter Kin"
2013–16 Please Like MeMaeMain role
2014–15WonderlandSong LuuRecurring role
2015PlonkLucy"Barossa"
2016EmilyTV series
2016Deep WaterDet. GingerTV miniseries
2016-17The Secret DaughterVivienne Hart11 episodes
2017PulseMonica Lee8 episodes
2018Bite ClubOlivia 1 episode
2018RakeTina1 episode
2017-21Little J & Big CuzMs Chen40 episodes
2019-20Reckoning Marcy5 episodes
2019Secret CityHelen Wu4 episodes
2019Diary of an Uber DriverTess1 episode
2019PreacherTV Anchor 2 episodes
2021The Unusual SuspectsDetective LimTV miniseries
2021ClickbaitAliceTV miniseries, 4 episodes
2021FiresFiona Rocca1 episode
2022The TouristMarnie Brown2 episodes
2022Bali 2002Joy Fong4 episodes
2022Black SnowAngie Zang4 episodes
2022-23The PM's Daughter[15] Deputy Principal5 episodes

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Registers of Practitioners: Dr Renee Li-Yen Lim. Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
  2. Web site: Never a dull moment. Peter. Wilmoth. 19 September 2012. The Weekly Review. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140222000127/http://www.theweeklyreview.com.au/release/5425-never-a-dull-moment. 22 February 2014. dmy-all.
  3. Web site: Renee Lim. The South African TV Authority.
  4. Web site: Renee Lim interview. 16 August 2012. SBS One.
  5. Web site: Lim finds professional balance. Sue. Yeap. The West Australian. 16 August 2012.
  6. Web site: Renee Lim... leading actress, presenter and medical doctor. Saxton Speakers Bureau.
  7. Web site: About — Past Shows. UNSW Medical Revue Society. 2017-09-08.
  8. Nucleotide Variation in the Cytidine Triphosphate Synthetase Gene of Giardia duodenalis . 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1997.tb05957.x . 2007 . Swarbrick . Alexander . Lim . Renee L. H. . Upcroft . Jacqueline A. . Stewart . Thomas S. . Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology . 44 . 6 . 531–534 . 9435124 . 42463101 .
  9. Renee L. H. Lim, William J. O'Sullivan, Thomas S. Stewart. (1996.) "Isolation, characterization and expression of the gene encoding cytidine triphosphate synthetase from Giardia intestinalis", Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 78(1–2):249–57.
  10. Web site: Justin Fleming's play Coup d'Etat stars Renee Lim. Chris. Hook. 7 November 2011. The Telegraph.
  11. Web site: Renee Lim East West 101 Interview. Brooke. Hunter. Femail.
  12. Web site: Dr Renee Lim. Sydney Medical School.
  13. Web site: Knapman Wyld Television. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20071210152108/http://www.knapmanwyld.com.au/ew101/ew101_char.html#Lim. 10 December 2007. dmy-all.
  14. Web site: IMDb. .
  15. Web site: The PM's Daughter filming S2 | TV Tonight . 15 August 2022 .