Awkwafina
Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina, is an American actress, rapper, and comedian. 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). For her starring role as a grieving young woman in The Farewell (2019), she won a Golden Globe Award.
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| Born | Nora Lum June 2, 1988 Stony Brook, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Education | University at Albany (BA) | ||||||||||||||
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| Years active | 2005–present | ||||||||||||||
| Awards | Full list | ||||||||||||||
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| Origin | Queens, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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| Instrument(s) | Vocals | ||||||||||||||
| Website | awkwafina | ||||||||||||||
| Nora Lum | |||||||||||||||
| Chinese | 林家珍 | ||||||||||||||
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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), and Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024).