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Lori Tan Chinn (born July 7, 1948) is an American actress and comedian. She played a recurring character in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black and currently stars as Awkwafina's grandmother on Comedy Central's Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens (2020–present).
10 Photos. Funny, adorable Lori Tan Chinn is a prolific theater house actress. Since the early 1980s she has played in minor yet memorable on-camera roles, particularly supporting Roseanne Barr in Susan Seidelman 's dark comedy film She-Devil (1989), as Iris the hairdresser in the second season of Roseanne (1988), and as the persistent and ...
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- 2 min
- Actress, Soundtrack
- 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...
Mini Bio. Funny, adorable Lori Tan Chinn is a prolific theater house actress. Since the early 1980s she has played in minor yet memorable on-camera roles, particularly supporting Roseanne Barr in Susan Seidelman 's dark comedy film She-Devil (1989), as Iris the hairdresser in the second season of Roseanne (1988), and as the persistent and ...
1 set 2021 · September 1, 2021 11:45am. Lori Tan Chinn in one of her statement sweatshirts. Emily Aragones/Comedy Central. On Comedy Central’s Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens, loving, foul-mouthed Grandma...
7 giu 2023 · Lori Tan Chinn finds a home for her talents in ‘Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens’. June 7, 2023 at 6:00 am Updated June 7, 2023 at 6:00 am. By. Gregory Wakeman. Special to The Seattle Times. The...
BIOGRAFIA DI LORI TAN CHINN. Tra i suoi film come interprete, ricordiamo: Sognando Masterchef (2013), Americani (1992), Tra le sue serie tv come interprete, ricordiamo: Awkwafina è Nora del ...
