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Exclusive: Crazy Rich Asians and Hustlers star Constance Wu has inked with CAA, Deadline has learned.

She rose to fame in the ABC comedy series Fresh Off the Boat as Jessica Huang, a role which earned her a Critics Choice Television Award nominatio. She also was lauded as part of Time‘s 100 Most Influential People of 2017. Last year, Wu wrapped up the sixth and final season of Fresh Off the Boat.

Wu went on to star in the Warner Bros romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians, which was a great success for the studio grossing over $238M and netting a $121M profit after all ancillaries. Crazy Rich Asians also made Hollywood history as the first studio movie in more than 25 years to star an Asian American woman. Wu also received a Critics Choice nom for Best Actress in a Comedy Feature for Crazy Rich Asians and was nominated at the Golden Globes.

“Fresh off the Boat” star Constance Wu has launched a new production venture and signed a first-look TV deal with Entertainment One, the studio announced Tuesday.

eOne will manage worldwide rights and serve as the studio on all projects produced under the partnership, with Justine Jones acting as vice president of development for Wu’s new production banner.

“Constance continues to bring dynamic film and television characters to life flawlessly, as she did with Jessica Huang and Rachel Chu. We cannot wait to collaborate with her to create more beloved stories and characters under her influence and distinct point of view,” Michael Lombardo, eOne’s president of global television, said.

“We are thrilled to partner with eOne,” said Wu and Jones in a joint statement. “Michael Lombardo and his team are exceptional in their commitment to daring, innovative artists and storytelling. With a shared vision and sense of purpose, we...

Exclusive: Constance Wu, star of ABC’s Fresh Off The Boat and Crazy Rich Asians, is moving into TV production and has struck a first-look deal with eOne.

The actress is launching a production venture and has tapped Justine Jones as Vice President of Development.

It comes as Wu is developing a feature adaptation of Rachel Khong’s novel Goodbye Vitamin, with Dylan Clark Productions, that she will star in and exec produce.

Last year, Wu wrapped up the sixth and final season of ABC comedy Fresh Off The Boat, in which she starred as Jessica Huang. She also starred as Rachel Chu in Warner Bros. hit feature film Crazy Rich Asians, which was directed by Jon M. Chu, where she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.

Coming up, Wu stars in Amazon anthology series Solos, alongside Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway, Helen Mirren, Uzo Aduba, Nicole Beharie, Anthony Mackie and Dan Stevens.

“Is there such a thing as being too colorblind?” Samie Falvey, executive vice president of comedy development for ABC Entertainment, calls this question “one of the most provocative I’ve heard in all my years of development.”

Kenya Barris, creator of ABC’s Black-ish, posed the question during the early stages of the sitcom, one of the network’s two new family comedy hits that let viewers know race was part of the equation right in the title. Black-ish is the story of an upwardly mobile advertising executive (Anthony Anderson), his biracial doctor wife (Tracee Ellis Ross) and their four kids, with Anderson’s dad character struggling to hold on to his roots in a predominantly white Los Angeles suburb.

The other gutsy new ABC comedy is Fresh Off the Boat, based on Eddie Huang’s memoir about a Chinese-American immigrant family and their hip-hop-loving son, trying hard to pursue...