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With help from her dad and grandmother, Nora Lum navigates young adulthood in Flushing, New York with her cousin. Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Episode guide. Play trailer

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Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. Awkwafina Actress Writer Producer. Play trailer Kung Fu Panda 4 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 , and her leading role in the comedy-drama The Farewell earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress nomination. 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 s; he opened the Cantonese restaurant Lum's in Flushing, Queens that was one of that neighborhood's first Chinese restaurants. 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. 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. Contact info Agent info Resume.

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The video, which eventually went viral, cost her a job in book publicity but set her on the road to film and television stardom. The next year she delivered an award-winning lead performance in The Farewell. Tia, a painter, suffered from pulmonary hypertension and passed away when Awkwafina was 4. Following this loss, Awkwafina began using humor to try to dispel the sadness she saw in those around her. She wrote in People magazine in , "I think all the time, what would I have been doing if my mom hadn't passed? Her father and his mother raised Awkwafina in Forest Hills, Queens. She's said that as a child, "My every birthday wish was, 'I want to someday be on TV. Awkwafina feels that Cho "changed my life. Awkwafina has credited her grandmother, who never fit the stereotype of a submissive Asian woman, with boosting her confidence: "My grandma raised me with unconditional love. People used to make fun of me about my [low, raspy] voice.

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We find the Lins in a place of arrested development as everyone is trying to figure out who they are and wondering what's next," Awkwafina tells BAZAAR. I love this cast and crew so much and am excited for the world to return to Queens with the Lins.

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