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Awkwafina
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Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina ( ), is an American actress 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). For her starring role as a grieving young woman in The Farewell'' (2019), she won a Golden Globe Award.
Awkwafina is an American actress and rapper born Nora Lum who rose to fame through her 2012 YouTube rap hit "My Vag" and has since become a prominent film and television performer. She matters because she has successfully crossed over from music into major Hollywood productions, earning a Golden Globe Award for her leading role in the 2019 film *The Farewell*.
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Film & TV
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 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…
Known for
- Wildwood — (voice)2026
- The Man with the Bag2026
- Jumanji: Open World — Ming2026
- The Bad Guys 2 — Tarantula (voice)2025
- The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis — Tarantula (voice)2025
- Lisa Lu Plays Herself — Self2025
- Marvel Zombies — Katy Chen (voice)2025
- No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski — Self2025
- Jackpot! — Katie Kim2024
- Kung Fu Panda 4 — Zhen (voice)2024
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1988
Discography
- My Vag2012
- Yellow Ranger2014
- In Fina We Trust2018
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 82,651
- Total plays
- 735,484
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Nora Lum known professionally as Awkwafina, is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and rapper. She rose to prominence in 2012 when her rap song My Vag went viral on YouTube. She then released her debut album, Yellow Ranger (2014), and appeared on the MTV show Girl Code. She later co-hosted Girl Code Live (2015) and a talk show, Tawk (2015 to 2017), and was featured in the documentary Bad Rap. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Awkwafina">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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- voice actor
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- Beijing Language and Culture University
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- Notable work
- The Bad Guys
- Field of work
- acting
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- alternative hip-hop
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- voice
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- www.awkwafina.com
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- Awkwafina by Gage Skidmore.jpg
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- birth name
- 林家珍
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- Charles Bukowski
- Commons category
- Awkwafina
- date of birth
- 1988-06-02
- start of work period
- 2011-00-00
- pseudonym
- Awkwafina
- name in native language
- Awkwafina
- social media followers
- 143000
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Early life
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- Filmography
- Film
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- Discography
- Awards, nominations and recognitions
- See also
- References
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Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina ( ), is an American actress 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). For her starring role as a grieving young woman in The Farewell (2019), she won a Golden Globe Award.
From 2020 to 2023, Awkwafina had 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, IF (both 2024) and The Bad Guys 2 (2025). She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for starring in and producing the TV movie Quiz Lady'' (2023).
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