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Awkwafina

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.

Filmography

2026
Jumanji 3

as Ming

Movie
2025
The Bad Guys 2

as Tarantula (voice)

Movie
2025
The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis

as Tarantula (voice)

Movie
2024
Jackpot!

as Katie Kim

Movie
2024
IF

as Bubble (voice)

Movie
2024
Dueling Dumplings

as Zhen (voice)

Movie
2024
Kung Fu Panda 4

as Zhen (voice)

Movie
2023
Migration

as Chump (voice)

Movie
2023
The Little Mermaid

as Scuttle (voice)

Movie
2022
The Bad Guys

as Tarantula (voice)

Movie
2021
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

as Katy

Movie
2021
Raya and the Last Dragon

as Sisu (voice)

Movie
2020
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run

as Otto (voice)

Movie
2019
Jumanji: The Next Level

as Ming

Movie
2019
The Angry Birds Movie 2

as Courtney (voice)

Movie
2018
Ocean's Eight

as Constance

Movie
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Wildwood

as (voice)

Movie
2025
Marvel Zombies

as Katy Chen (voice)

TV Show