Renee Lim

Lim was born in Perth, Western Australia to Chinese-Malaysian parents{{cite web|url=http://www.theweeklyreview.com.au/release/5425-never-a-dull-moment|title=Never a dull moment|first=Peter|last=Wilmoth|date=19 September 2012|work=The Weekly Review|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222000127/http://www.theweeklyreview.com.au/release/5425-never-a-dull-moment|archive-date=22 February 2014|df=dmy-all}} who had migrated from Malaysia to Australia in the 1970s.{{cite web|url=http://www.tvsa.co.za/actorprofile.asp?actorID=12954|title=Renee Lim|publisher=The South African TV Authority}} When she was five years old, her parents divorced. Lim was primarily raised by her single father. Her mother moved to Malaysia and remarried, with a Peranakan man.{{cite web|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/11845699503/Renee-Lim-interview|title=Renee Lim interview|date=16 August 2012|publisher=SBS One}} Lim would often travel to Malaysia, where she had family other than her mother, to visit her mother. Lim's father later also remarried, and had a son with his new wife when she was 12 years old.

Lim graduated as the dux of her high school Hampton Senior High School.{{cite web|url=http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/14569228/lim-finds-professional-balance/|title=Lim finds professional balance|first=Sue|last=Yeap|work=The West Australian|date=16 August 2012}} 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".

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.saxton.com.au/renee-lim/|title=Renee Lim... leading actress, presenter and medical doctor|publisher=Saxton Speakers Bureau}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.medrevue.org/about/|title=About — Past Shows|publisher=UNSW Medical Revue Society|date=2017-09-08}} Also during her university studies, Lim co-authored two academic articles.{{cite journal |url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1550-7408.1997.tb05957.x/abstract |doi=10.1111/j.1550-7408.1997.tb05957.x |title=Nucleotide Variation in the Cytidine Triphosphate Synthetase Gene of Giardia duodenalis |year=2007 |last1=Swarbrick |first1=Alexander |last2=Lim |first2=Renee L. H. |last3=Upcroft |first3=Jacqueline A. |last4=Stewart |first4=Thomas S. |journal=Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology |volume=44 |issue=6 |pages=531–534 |pmid=9435124 |s2cid=42463101}}Renee L. H. Lim, William J. O'Sullivan, Thomas S. Stewart. (1996.) "[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8813694 Isolation, characterization and expression of the gene encoding cytidine triphosphate synthetase from Giardia intestinalis]", Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 78(1–2):249–57.

Lim is a physician,{{youTube|id=C9xEbHDOwuk|title=Renee Lim Interview}} mostly working in part-time, locum posts in emergency medicine, geriatrics, and palliative care departments,{{cite web|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/justin-flemings-play-coup-detat-stars-renee-lim/story-e6frexmi-1226187140923|title=Justin Fleming's play Coup d'Etat stars Renee Lim|first=Chris|last=Hook|date=7 November 2011|work=The Telegraph}}{{cite web|url=http://www.femail.com.au/renee-lim-east-west-101-interview.htm|title=Renee Lim East West 101 Interview|first=Brooke|last=Hunter|publisher=Femail}} and a clinical lecturer at the University of Sydney's Northern Clinical School.{{cite web|url=http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/people/academics/profiles/rlim.php|title=Dr Renee Lim|publisher=Sydney Medical School}} 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".

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.knapmanwyld.com.au/ew101/ew101_char.html#Lim|title=Knapman Wyld Television|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071210152108/http://www.knapmanwyld.com.au/ew101/ew101_char.html#Lim|archive-date=10 December 2007|df=dmy-all}} Lim played Mae, the younger Thai girlfriend of Josh's father, in Please Like Me, and starred in Forget Me Not in 2014,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1813111/|title=IMDb|website=IMDb }} 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.{{citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=Need reliable source, not self-published, that supports this statement.}}

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