Awkwafina
Born June 02, 1988 (Age: 37)
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Stony Brook, Brookhaven, New York, USA
Biography
Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina (/ˌɔːkwəˈfiːnə/), is an American actress, comedian and rapper. She rose to prominence in 2012 when her rap song "My Vag" became popular on YouTube. She then released her debut album, Yellow Ranger (2014), and appeared on the MTV comedy series Girl Code (2014–2015). She expanded to films with supporting roles in the comedies Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), Ocean's 8 (2018), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019). She won a Golden Globe Award for her starring role as a grieving young woman in The Farewell (2019). Since 2020, Awkwafina has been a co-creator, writer, and executive producer of the Comedy Central series Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, where she also plays a fictionalized version of herself. In 2021, she portrayed Katy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. She has also performed voice roles in the animated films Storks (2016), The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), The Bad Guys (2022), The Little Mermaid, Migration (both 2023), Kung Fu Panda 4, and IF (both 2024). For starring and producing the TV movie Quiz Lady (2023), she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. Description above from the Wikipedia article Awkwafina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina (/ˌɔːkwəˈfiːnə/), is an American actress, comedian and rapper. She rose to prominence in 2012 when her rap song "My Vag" became popular on YouTube. She then released her debut album, Yellow Ranger (2014), and appeared on the MTV comedy series Girl Code (2014–2015). She expanded to films with supporting roles in the comedies Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), Ocean's 8 (2018), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019). She won a Golden Globe Award for her starring role as a grieving young woman in The Farewell (2019).
Since 2020, Awkwafina has been a co-creator, writer, and executive producer of the Comedy Central series Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, where she also plays a fictionalized version of herself. In 2021, she portrayed Katy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. She has also performed voice roles in the animated films Storks (2016), The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), The Bad Guys (2022), The Little Mermaid, Migration (both 2023), Kung Fu Panda 4, and IF (both 2024). For starring and producing the TV movie Quiz Lady (2023), she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Awkwafina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Wildwood
2026
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as (voice)
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Age: 38
The Bad Guys 2
2025
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as Tarantula (voice)
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Age: 37
IF
2024
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as Bubble (voice)
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Age: 35
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024
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as Zhen (voice)
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Age: 35
Migration
2023
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as Chump (voice)
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Age: 35
The Little Mermaid
2023
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as Scuttle (voice)
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Age: 34
Renfield
2023
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as Rebecca
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Age: 34
The Bad Guys
2022
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as Tarantula (voice)
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Age: 33
Swan Song
2021
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as Kate
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Age: 33
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021
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as Katy
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Age: 33
Raya and the Last Dragon
2021
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as Sisu (voice)
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Age: 32
Breaking News in Yuba County
2021
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as Mina
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Age: 32
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
2020
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as Otto (voice)
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Age: 32
One World: Together at Home
2020
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as Self
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Age: 31
Jumanji: The Next Level
2019
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as Ming
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Age: 31
The Angry Birds Movie 2
2019
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as Courtney (voice)
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Age: 31
Crazy Rich Asians
2018
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as Peik Lin Goh
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Age: 30
Ocean's Eight
2018
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as Constance
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Age: 30
Storks
2016
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as Quail (voice)
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Age: 28
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
2016
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as Christine
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Age: 27