Awkwafina
Birthday: 1988-06-02 | Place of Birth: Stony Brook, Brookhaven, New York, USANora 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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Acting
Role
as Katy Chen (voice)
as Kimmy
as Self
as Tarantula (voice)
as Tarantula (voice)
as Tarantula (voice)
as Zhen (voice)
as Chump (voice)
as Katie Kim
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Zhen (voice)
as Anne Yum
as Chump (voice)
as Rebecca
as Scuttle (voice)
as Tarantula (voice)
as Kate
as Mina
as Sisu (voice)
as Nora Lin
as Billi
as Courtney (voice)
as Ming
as Yu
