Awkwafina
Birthday: 1988-06-02
Place of Birth: Stony Brook, Brookhaven, New York, USA
Biography: 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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Jackpot!
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Renfield
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Migration
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Kung Fu Panda 4
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IF
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Maraschino Ruby
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Wildwood
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Ocean's Team 3.0
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Fly Hard
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Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
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Dude
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Bad Rap
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Ocean's Eight
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Storks
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Crazy Rich Asians
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Paradise Hills
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A Legendary Christmas with John & Chrissy
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The Farewell
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Jumanji: The Next Level
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The Little Mermaid
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
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The Last Adventure of Constance Verity
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Raya and the Last Dragon
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Between Two Ferns: The Movie
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
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The Baccarat Machine
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Call Your Mother
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Swan Song
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The Bad Guys
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Quiz Lady
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One World: Together at Home
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The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis
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The Man with the Bag
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Lisa Lu Plays Herself
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Devise the Plan: Making 'The Bad Guys'
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Thumb
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The Bad Guys 3
The third installment of The Bad Guys by DreamWorks Animation, and based on the book series by Aaron...
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