Background
Ho was born in Dagenham, Essex, and studied Mixed Media Arts at the University of Westminster.
Ho was born in Dagenham, Essex, and studied Mixed Media Arts at the University of Westminster.
University of Westminster.
She has been credited as the first Chinese person in the United Kingdom to have successfully created an original television drama series. Spirit Warriors is also the United Kingdom"s first television drama series to star a predominantly East Asian cast. Ho taught herself screenwriting by studying The West Wing and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
She went on to work as a production manager on several projects, before writing and directing her first short film Isolation 9 in 2006.
Her next short film Monkey Nut Tales, shot just two months later, was funded by the United Kingdom Film Council and Film London as part of the 2006 Digital Shorts Pulse Scheme. In 2008, Ho was a judge on the British Broadcasting Corporation Bites Scheme, created to find and encourage British born Chinese writers.
After three years in development, Spirit Warriors began filming in 2009. The series aired in 2010, on British Broadcasting Corporation HD, British Broadcasting Corporation Two, and CBBC, and was nominated for "Best Children"s Programme" at the 2011 Broadcast Known for her high concept work, following Spirit Warriors, Ho has worked as a storyline consultant on a supernatural British Broadcasting Corporation drama series Bishaash and has been engaged to write three feature films: an action film, a teen supernatural romance and a dark fairytale.
She is currently in development on several original feature films and two television series: a big budget medieval series for acclaimed producers Morgan O"Sullivan and James Flynn (producers of The Borgias, The Tudors and Vikings) and a United States supernatural television show for Rick Porras (producer of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) and ex William Morris agent turned producer, Gary Pearl.
The Independent noted her among "five to watch" in the context of ethnic minority writers for British television and film.
Ho is a member of British Academy of Film and Television Arts.