Jamie Chung | |
General Information | |
Gender: | Female |
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Birthday: | April 10, 1983 |
Age: | 33 |
Hometown: | San Francisco, California |
Birthplace: | San Francisco, California |
Nationality: | Korean |
Social Networks: | Twitter |
Other Information | |
Height: | 5'5" |
Occupation(s): | Actress |
Education: | Lowell High School University of California, Riverside |
Talents: | Acting |
Family & Friends | |
Relationships: | Bryan Greenberg (husband) |
Series Information | |
Character: | Mulan |
First appearance: | Broken |
Last appearance: | Ruby Slippers |
Jamie Jilynn Chung is an American actress, blogger, and former reality television personality. She first gained fame in 2004 as a cast member on the MTV reality series The Real World: San Diego and subsequently through her appearances on its spin-off show, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno II. She is regarded by many as the Real World alumna with the most successful media career.
She later transitioned into acting and has since become known for films, such as Dragonball Evolution, Grown Ups, Premium Rush, Sorority Row, The Hangover Part II, Sucker Punch, and Big Hero 6 and having been the series lead of the ABC Family television miniseries Samurai Girl. Chung received critical acclaim for her lead performance in the independent drama film about domestic human trafficking, Eden.
Since 2012, Chung has appeared in the recurring role of Mulan in the ABC fantasy television series Once Upon a Time. An avid fashionista, she also created the blog What the Chung?
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Early life
Jamie Chung was born and raised in San Francisco, California. She and her older sister are second-generation Korean Americans, raised by "traditional" parents who moved to the United States in 1980, and ran a hamburger restaurant. She was described by MTV as someone who "tells it like it is". After graduating from Lowell High School in 2001, Chung attended and graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a B.A. in economics in 2005; she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
Trivia
- Was working at "Tremors", a sports bar in Riverside, California, as a waitress. When MTV held auditions there, they saw her and asked her to audition..... she got it
- Her movie Dragonball: Evolution (2009) came out on her 26th birthday, April 10th
- She replaced Emma Stone in Sucker Punch (2011) when Emma dropped out due to scheduling conflicts
- Has studied Taekwondo
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