10-year-old Girl gives voice to new Chinese-American cartoon

Jade-Lianna broke into show business at the age of 2, when a director casting a commercial for Welch's grape juice approached her and her mother, Kathleen Peters, at the Grand Avenue Mall (now the Shops at Grand Avenue).
"How would you like to have your daughter appear in a commercial?" he asked Peters, intrigued by the precocious toddler's presence, personality and verbal abilities.
Peters sized up the director and said: "She has a mind of her own, you know. Why don't you ask her?"
Jade-Lianna signed on, and her parents secured an agent for her. A spate of commercials and print ads followed, for U.S. Cellular and McDonald's, among others.
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