Awkwafina
Age: N/A | From: Stony Brook, Brookhaven, New York, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Nora Lum , 아콰피나 , 林家珍 , אקוופינה , აქვაფინა , नोरा लम , 奥卡菲娜 , آکوافینا
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Stony Brook, Brookhaven, New York, USA
Homepage: https://awkwafina.com/
Movie Involvements: 14
TV Involvements: 12
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Black Mirror
(2011) Kimmy
MTV Video Music Awards
(1984) Self - Preshow Host
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
(2021) Katy
The Little Mermaid
(2023) Scuttle (voice)
The Boys Presents: Diabolical
(2022) Sky / Areola / Turd (voice)
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
(2019) skekLach (The Collector) (voice)
Raya and the Last Dragon
(2021) Sisu (voice)
Marvel Studios Assembled
(2021) SelfActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Katy Chen (voice) | |
| N/A | ||
| Tarantula (voice) | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Tarantula (voice) | ||
| 2024 | Katie Kim | |
| Bubble (voice) | ||
| Zhen (voice) | ||
| Zhen (voice) | ||
| Chump (voice) | ||
| Self - Narrator (voice) | ||
| 2023 | Chump (voice) | |
| Sisu (voice) | ||
| Anne Yum | ||
| Scuttle (voice) | ||
| Rebecca | ||
| 2022 | Tarantula (voice) | |
| Tarantula (voice) | ||
| Sky / Areola / Turd (voice) | ||
| 2021 | Kate | |
| Katy | ||
| Self | ||
| Sisu (voice) | ||
| Mina | ||
| 2020 | Self | |
| Otto (voice) | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| Nora Lin | ||
| 2019 | Ming | |
| Awkwafina | ||
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| skekLach (The Collector) (voice) | ||
| Yu | ||
| Courtney (voice) | ||
| Billi | ||
| Charlotta | ||
| 2018 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| Peik Lin Goh | ||
| Constance | ||
| Rebecca Voller | ||
| 2017 | Woman at Video Game Store | |
| 2016 | Quail (voice) | |
| Gina | ||
| Christine | ||
| Self | ||
| Annie (voice) | ||
| 2015 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 2014 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 2012 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2011 | Kimmy | |
| 2010 | Apple / Waitress #1 (voice) | |
| 2009 | Self - Guest | |
| 2005 | Self | |
| 2003 | Self | |
| Self | ||
| 1996 | Self | |
| 1989 | Carmen (voice) | |
| 1988 | Self - Guest | |
| 1984 | Self - Preshow Host | |
| 1975 | Self - Host | |
| Cheung Yin 'Kelly' Sun | ||
| Shelly Wheeler | ||
| Constance Verity | ||
| (voice) | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Producer | |
| 2020 | Executive Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Writer | |
| 2020 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Creator
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Creator | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |