Awkwafina
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 Awkwafina at the 2025 San Diego Comic-Con | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Nora Lum June 2, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | University at Albany (BA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Actress • rapper • comedian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 2001–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Awards | Full list | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Origin | Queens, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Instrument | Vocals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | awkwafina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina (/ˌɔːkwəˈfiːnə/ AW-kwə-FEE-nə), 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 was a co-creator, writer, and executive producer of the Comedy Central series Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens, in which she played 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 voiced roles in Storks (2016), The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), The Little Mermaid, Migration (both 2023), Kung Fu Panda 4, IF (both 2024), and Descendants: Wicked Wonderland (2026) as well as The Bad Guys film franchise (2022–present). She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for producing the TV movie Quiz Lady (2023).