Li Jun Li was born in Shanghai, China and moved to New York City in 1992, by way of Bogotá, Colombia, where she spent a number of years during childhood, where Spanish became her second language, and English her third. She attended Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts as a dance major and switched to studying acting in college.Li Jun had her first break in the acting world starring opposite Matthew Morrison in the Tony Award winning Rogers & Hammerstein's South Pacific (2008) at New York's Lincoln Center. Following on from this early success, she won roles on a variety of TV shows and films including Blue Bloods (2010), Damages (2011), The Following (2013), Cédric Klapisch's Chinese Puzzle (2013) and Mistress (2014). Li Jun expanded her visibility and presence on a global level by landing major television roles in Neil LaBute's Billy and Billie (2015) and Steven Spielberg's Minority Report (2015) on FOX. In 2016 Li Jun joined the cast of ABC's hit show Quantico (2016) to play Iris Chang and most recently, became Burgess's new partner on the season four of Chicago PD.