Awkwafina

Awkwafina

actress, writer, producer

Awkwafina was born on Jun 02, 1988 in USA. Awkwafina's big-screen debut came with Mary + Jane - Season 1 directed by Todd Biermann in 2016. Awkwafina is known for The Bad Guys in Maraschino Ruby directed by Nelson Yokota, Sam Rockwell stars as Mr. Wolf and Craig Robinson as Shark. Awkwafina has got 14 awards and 59 nominations so far. The most recent award Awkwafina achieved is Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA. The upcoming new movie Awkwafina plays is The Little Mermaid which will be released on May 26, 2023.

Nora Lum, known professionally as Awkwafina, is an American actress and rapper. She has played supporting roles in the comedy films Ocean's 8 and Crazy Rich Asians (2018), and her leading role in the comedy-drama The Farewell (2019) earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress nomination.She has released two albums, Yellow Ranger (2014) and In Fina We Trust (2018). She has also ventured into comedy and hosting, making television appearances in Girl Code, Future Man, and Saturday Night Live.Lum was born in New York City to painter and South Korean immigrant Tia, who died when she was four, and Chinese-American father Wally. She grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, raised by her father and his grandparents; she became especially close to her grandmother. One of her paternal great-grandfathers was a Chinese immigrant in the 1940s; he opened the Cantonese restaurant Lum's in Flushing, Queens that was one of that neighborhood's first Chinese restaurants.Lum attended LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts where she played the trumpet and was trained in classical music and jazz. At age 16, 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. Lum majored in journalism and women's studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. From 2006 to 2008, Lum attended Beijing Language and Culture University in China, where she studied Mandarin.Lum states that Charles Bukowski, Anaïs Nin, Joan Didion, Tom Waits, and Chet Baker were early influences. Prior to her career in entertainment, she was an intern at local New York publications Gotham Gazette and the Times Union newspaper in Albany, and was a publicity assistant for publishing house Rodale.

  • Birthday

    Jun 02, 1988
  • Place of Birth

    New York City, New York, USA
  • Also known

    Nora Lum, 아콰피나, 奧卡菲娜

Known For

Awards

14 wins & 59 nominations

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
2022
Best Supporting Actress
Winner - Saturn Award
Gold List
2022
Best Supporting Actress
Winner - Gold List Award
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