Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina, is an American actress and rapper. She made her film breakthrough in 2018 with her roles in the films Ocean\'s 8 and Crazy Rich Asians. She has released two studio albums, Yellow Ranger and In Fina We Trust. Awkwafina first gained popularity for her song "My Vag", a response to Mickey Avalon\'s "My Dick". The music video has garnered over four million views on YouTube. Notable television appearances include Girl Code, Future Man, and Saturday Night Live.\n', '

Lum was born in New York City to an ethnic Chinese-American father, Wally, and a South Korean immigrant mother, a painter. She grew up in Forest Hills, Queens. One of her paternal great-grandfathers was a Chinese immigrant in the 1940s who opened the Cantonese restaurant Lum’s in Flushing, Queens. Lum\'s mother died when she was four, and she was raised and influenced heavily by her paternal grandmother.\n', '

Lum attended LaGuardia High School where she played the trumpet and was trained in classical music and jazz. At age 16, she adopted the stage name Awkwafina, "definitely a person I repressed" and an alter ego to her "quiet and more passive" personality during her college years. Lum majored in journalism and women\'s studies at the State University of New York at Albany. From 2006 to 2008, Lum attended Beijing Language and Culture University in China, where she studied Mandarin.\n', '

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