Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho is one of those performers I respect on principle. Carrying All-American Girl as the lead of a network sitcom built around an Asian American family in 1994 was a thankless, pioneering burden, and she did it before the culture was ready. What keeps me interested is her refusal to be tidy: she mines race, sexuality and her own pain for comedy that confronts rather than flatters. Comedian, actor, voice artist, musician, designer, she is gloriously hard to categorize. I will always take the artist who fights the world with a microphone over the one who merely entertains it.

Name (English)

Margaret Cho

Name (Japanese)

マーガレット・チョー

Reading

まーがれっと・ちょー

Born

December 5, 1968 (age 57)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Monkey

Origin

San Francisco, California, United States

Occupation

fashion designer / musician / television actor / film actor / voice actor

High school

Lowell High School

University

San Francisco State University

Awards & achievements

• 2016 The Center's Honorarium Honorees

• Official sitehttps://margaretcho.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/margaret_cho/
• Xhttps://x.com/margaretcho
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Cho
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q257243

Tags

• California
• fashion designer
• musician
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-17

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