Awkwafina trivia: 45 amazing facts about the actress!

Awkwafina is an American actress that is about to be the talk of Hollywood. She recently signed to make an appearance in the MCU!

So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about her life and career!

1. Her real name is Nora Lum
2. She was born in June 2, 1988
3. She is known professionally as Awkwafina
4. She is an American actress and rapper
5. She made her film breakthrough in 2018
6. With her roles in the heist comedy film Ocean’s 8
7. And the romantic comedy film Crazy Rich Asians
8. She received critical praise for her performance in the comedy-drama film The Farewell (2019)
9. She has made notable television appearances in Girl Code, Future Man, and Saturday Night Live
10. Awkwafina has released two studio albums
11. They are titled Yellow Ranger (2014) and In Fina We Trust (2018)
12. She first gained popularity for her song “My Vag”
13. Her song was a response to Mickey Avalon’s “My Dick”
14. The music video has garnered over four million views on YouTube
15. Lum was born in New York City
16. To an ethnic Chinese-American father, Wally
17. And a South Korean immigrant mother, a painter
18. She grew up in Forest Hills, Queens
19. One of her paternal great-grandfathers was a Chinese immigrant in the 1940s who opened the Cantonese restaurant Lum’s in Flushing, Queens
20. Lum’s mother died when she was four
21. And she was raised and influenced heavily by her paternal grandmother
22. Lum attended LaGuardia High School
23. There she played the trumpet
24. And was trained in classical music and jazz
25. At age 16, she adopted the stage name Awkwafina
26. She said Awkwafina was “definitely a person I repressed” and an alter ego to her “quiet and more passive” personality during her college years
27. Lum majored in journalism and women’s studies at the State University of New York at Albany
28. From 2006 to 2008, Lum attended Beijing Language and Culture University in China
29. There she studied Mandarin
30. Lum says Charles Bukowski, Anaïs Nin, Joan Didion, Tom Waits, and Chet Baker were early influences
31. Prior to her career in entertainment, she was an intern at local New York publications Gotham Gazette and the Times Union newspaper in Albany
32. She was a publicity assistant for publishing house Rodale
33. At San Diego Comic Con 2019, it was announced that Awkwafina will be part of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
34. Alongside Simu Liu as Shang-Chi and Tony Leung as the Mandarin
35. In 2015, publisher Potter Style, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, released Awkwafina’s NYC, Awkwafina’s travel guide to New York City
36. Awkwafina has expressed support for Time’s Up
37. A movement started by Hollywood celebrities against sexual harassment
38. She has also advocated for the need for more female directors and against the stereotyping of Asians in media
39. She has rejected roles that require accents
40. Awkwafina was honored as Kore Asian Media’s Female Breakout of the Year in December 2017
41. Awkwafina was featured in Gap’s “Logo Remix” campaign
42. Which featured up-and-coming artists who “are remixing creative culture on their own terms”
43. Such as SZA, Sabrina Claudio and Naomi Watanabe
44. Awkwafina resides in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
45. She will return for the Crazy Rich Asians sequels