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Lori Tan Chinn is an American actress and comedian of Hoisan Chinese descent. She has appeared in films, TV shows, and Broadway musicals, and is known for her roles in Orange Is the New Black and Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens.
Lori Tan Chinn is a prolific theater house actress who has also appeared in films and TV shows such as She-Devil, Roseanne, and Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens. See her biography, credits, photos, videos, and trivia on IMDb.
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- 2 min
- Actress, Soundtrack
Lori Tan Chinn é uma atriz, conhecida por interpretar Mei Chang em Orange Is the New Black. [1] [2]
- Seattle Beginnings
- ‘Get Out of Here’
- “Survival Jobs”
- “The Freest Role I’ve Had”
Many of the roles Chinn has been asked to play are immigrants. But Chinn is not one herself: she grew up in Seattle in the 1950s and ’60s as the daughter of Hoisan Chinese immigrants. As a teenager she worked at her father’s restaurant, the Chung Sun Cafe in the Ballard neighborhood; during breaks, she took classes at the dance studio down the stre...
Alone in New York, Chinn scrapped and saved, poring over magazines for casting calls in both dance and theater. “I lived at the Y and didn’t know anybody. I got my first taste of lesbianism, because those ladies there were very friendly to me,” she says, eyes twinkling. “I looked like a little 12-year-old girl with pigtails.” In 1970, she landed a ...
To make ends meet, Chinn took on many “survival jobs.” She typed and proofread for American Lawyer Magazine and a served as a representative for Chun King Frozen Foods, tasked with preparing and presenting food for managers at supermarkets. She faced her fair share of degrading modeling gigs: “When you’re young, they ask for naked photos. There was...
Chinn was ready to leave acting. “I thought, ‘maybe I’ll have to apply for food stamps again after I just lost my sixth audition for a two-line role where I had to translate Mandarin,’” she says. But last year, she was cast in Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens. The show arrives as part of a larger push for Asian representation that emerged around Crazy...
- 1 min
- Andrew R. Chow
Confira todos os filmes e séries de Lori Tan Chinn. De seus primeiros passos até o final de seus 31 anos de carreira.
Learn about Lori Tan Chinn, a prolific theater house actress who has played in minor yet memorable on-camera roles, such as She-Devil, Roseanne and Mickey Blue Eyes. See her trivia, filmography and contact details on IMDb.
Watch Lori Tan Chinn, who plays the hilarious grandma character in the Comedy Central show, talk about her role and the show's third season. She also shares her experience working with Awkwafina and other cast members.
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