Jamie Chung

Jamie Chung interests me as a case study in reinvention. She arrived via MTV's The Real World, a launchpad that usually leads nowhere lasting, yet she built a durable acting career on top of it, adding voice work and screenwriting along the way. I respect performers who refuse to be defined by where they started. A San Francisco native and UC Riverside graduate, she brought needed Asian American visibility to Hollywood at a time it was scarce. To me her grit, turning a novelty origin into genuine craft, is more impressive than any single role she has played.

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Name (English)

Jamie Chung

Name (Japanese)

ジェイミー・チャン

Reading

じぇいみー・ちゃん

Born

April 10, 1983 (age 43)

Origin

San Francisco, California, United States

Height

165 cm

Occupation

actor / voice actor / screenwriter / film actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Boar

High school

Lowell High School

University

University of California, Riverside

• Official sitehttp://whatthechung.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jamiejchung/
• Xhttps://x.com/jamiechung1
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%20Chung
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232642

Tags

• California
• actor
• voice actor
• screenwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.