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Awkwafina

Actress / Celebrity / Television Producer / Musician | * 06/02/1989 (34) | New York City, New York (United States of America (USA))
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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. 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 ()
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Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina, is an American actress, rapper, and comedian who 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). Her second album, In Fina We Trust, was released in 2018. She played supporting roles in the comedy films Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), Ocean's 8 (2018), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019).Awkwafina played a leading role in the comedy-drama film The Farewell (2019), for which she received critical acclaim and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical, becoming the first woman of Asian descent to win a Golden Globe in any lead actress film category, and additionally won the Satellite Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress.Awkwafina is co-creator, writer, and executive producer of the Comedy Central series Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens (2020–present), in which she stars as a fictionalized version of herself. She then appeared in Swan Song (2021), voiced Courtney in The Angry Birds Movie 2, Sisu in Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) and Ms. Tarantula in The Bad Guys (2022), and portrayed Katy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) superhero film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).

Most frequent genres for this person: Comedies | Animation | Kids & Family

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Awards & Nominations for Awkwafina

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical
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Movies with Awkwafina as Actress(36)

as (voice)2024 IF
as (voice)2024 Kung Fu Panda 4
as Zhen (voice)2024 Kung Fu Panda 4
as (voice)2023 Wildwood
as Katie2023 Grand Death Lotto
as Sisu (voice)2023 Once Upon a Studio
as Scuttle (voice)2023 The Little Mermaid
as Shelly Wheeler2023 Shelly
as Rebecca Quincy2023 Renfield
as Tarantula (voice)2022 The Bad Guys
as Ms. Tarantula (voice)2022 Maraschino Ruby
as Sisu (voice)2021 Raya and the Last Dragon
as Kate2021 Swan Song
as Yu2019 Paradise Hills
as Courtney (voice)2019 The Angry Birds Movie 2
as Billi2019 The Farewell
as Goh Peik Lin2018 Crazy Rich Asians
as Rebecca Voller2018 Dude
as Constance2018 Ocean's Eight
as herself2018 Ocean's Team 3.0
as herself2016 Bad Rap
as Quail (voice)2016 Storks

TV Shows/Series with Awkwafina as Actress(19)

as Self - Narrator (voice)2024 A Real Bug's Life
as Sky / Areola / Turd (voice)2022 The Boys Presents: Diabolical
as skekLach (The Collector) (voice)2019 The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
as herself2019 JablinskiGames
as Charlotta2019 Weird City
as Woman at Video Game Store2017 Future Man
as Annie (voice)2016 Animals.
as Gina2016 Mary + Jane
as herself2015 Hot Ones
as Apple / Waitress #1 (voice)2010 Regular Show
as Carmen (voice)??? The Simpsons
as Self - Guest??? LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Host??? Saturday Night Live

Movies with Awkwafina as Crew(1)

Production/Producer2023 Quiz Lady

TV Shows/Series with Awkwafina as Crew(4)

Production/Executive Producer2020 Awkwafina is Nora From Queens
Creator/Creator2020 Awkwafina is Nora From Queens

Additional Information

Full Name: Nora Lum
Born: Friday, 06/02 1989 (June) in New York City, New York (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 34 years + 301 days)
Zodiac sign: Gemini (Chinese zodiac sign: Snake)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, State University of New York at Albany, Beijing Language and Culture University
Member of: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Influenced by/Role models: Charles Bukowski
Other names for Awkwafina (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Nora Lum"
"아콰피나"
"奧卡菲娜"
"林家珍"
Awkwafina frequently works together with these people:
Roger Craig Smith (77x, Actor)
Courtenay Taylor (40x, Actress)
Tress MacNeille (36x, Actress)
Andy Samberg (34x, Actor)
Fred Tatasciore (29x, Actor)
Steve Blum (29x, Actor)
Janie Haddad Tompkins (29x, Actress)
John Cygan (27x, Actor)
Bill Hader (25x, Actor)
Ali Hillis (25x, Actress)
Jeff Bennett (23x, Actor)
Pamela Hayden (23x, Actress)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:111526, Added: 06/27/2018, Last updated: 03/22/2024