At age 15, she adopted the stage name Awkwafina, "definitely a person I repressed" and an alter ego to her "quiet and more passive" personality during her college years. LaGuardia High School, where she played the trumpet and was trained in classical music and jazz.
Īwkwafina grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and attended Fiorello H. She became especially close to her paternal grandmother, Powah Lum. She died from pulmonary hypertension in 1992 when Awkwafina was four, and Awkwafina was subsequently raised by her father and paternal grandparents. Her mother was a painter who immigrated with her family to the United States from South Korea in 1972. Her father worked in the information technology field, and comes from a family of restaurateurs – his father immigrated to the United States in the 1940s, and opened the Cantonese restaurant Lum's in Flushing, Queens, one of the neighborhood's first Chinese restaurants. She has also performed voice roles in the animated films The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), The Bad Guys (2022), and in the musical The Little Mermaid (2023).Īwkwafina was born in Stony Brook, New York, to Wally Lum, a Chinese American, and Tia Lum, a Korean American. In 2021, she portrayed Katy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Since 2020, Awkwafina has served as co-creator, writer, and executive producer of the Comedy Central series Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, in which she also plays a fictionalized version of herself. For her starring role as a grieving young woman in The Farewell (2019), Awkwafina won a Golden Globe Award. 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 then released her debut album, Yellow Ranger (2014), and appeared on the MTV comedy series Girl Code (2014–2015). She rose to prominence in 2012 when her rap song "My Vag" became popular on YouTube. Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina, is an American actress, rapper, and comedian.
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