Who Is Jessie Mei Li? What to Know About the "Shadow and Bone" Breakout Star

After leaving university, Li spent her days teaching special needs children. In a roundtable interview, the actor told POPSUGAR that she'd been well aware of the "Shadow and Bone" book franchise before joining the show's cast, thanks to her students. "Before becoming an actor, I dropped out of university, and I was working as a teaching assistant in a secondary school. This was the age group that 'Shadow and Bone' is very popular with, and I remember lots of my students reading the books."