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Awkwafina
Stony Brook, Brookhaven, New York, USA
Nora 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…
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Nora 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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2026
Jumanji: Open World
Movie Ming
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2026
The Man with the Bag
Movie
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2026
The Unlikely Cook with Awkwafina
TV show Self
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2026
Wildwood
Movie Septima (voice)
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2026
30 Questions
TV show Self - Guest
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2026
Descendants: Wicked Wonderland
Movie Chessy the Cat (voice)
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2025
Marvel Zombies
TV show Katy Chen (voice)
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2025
The Bad Guys 2
Movie Tarantula (voice)
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2025
Lisa Lu Plays Herself
Movie Self
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2025
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
TV show Self - Guest
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2025
No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski
TV show Self
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2025
The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis
Movie Tarantula (voice)
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2024
Jackpot!
Movie Katie Kim
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2024
IF
Movie Bubble (voice)
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2024
Dueling Dumplings
Movie Zhen (voice)
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2024
Kung Fu Panda 4
Movie Zhen (voice)
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2024
Fly Hard
Movie Chump (voice)
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2024
A Real Bug's Life
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2023
Migration
Movie Chump (voice)
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2023
Once Upon a Studio
Movie Sisu (voice)
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2023
Quiz Lady
Movie Anne Yum
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2023
The Little Mermaid
Movie Scuttle (voice)
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2023
Renfield
Movie Rebecca
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2023
Poker Face
TV show Maddy Saint Marie
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2022
Top Chef VIP
TV show Self
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2022
Devise the Plan: Making 'The Bad Guys'
Movie Self
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2022
Maraschino Ruby
Movie Tarantula (voice)
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2022
The Bad Guys
Movie Tarantula (voice)
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2022
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
TV show Sky / Areola / Turd (voice)
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2021
Swan Song
Movie Kate
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2021
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Movie Katy
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2021
Marvel Studios Assembled
TV show Self
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2021
Raya and the Last Dragon
Movie Sisu (voice)
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2021
Breaking News in Yuba County
Movie Mina
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2020
The Drew Barrymore Show
TV show Self
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2020
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
Movie Otto (voice)
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2020
One World: Together at Home
Movie Self
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2020
Call Your Mother
Movie
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2020
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
TV show Self - Contestant
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2020
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
TV show Nora Lin
