Awkwafina

Nora Lum also known Awkwafina as was born on June 2, 1988 in New York City. 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.

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 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.

Awkwafina started rapping at age 13. In 2012, she 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. Her solo album Yellow Ranger was released on February 11, 2014. The LP includes a number of her previous singles released via YouTube, including the title track Yellow Ranger, Queef and NYC Bitche$.

In 2016, Awkwafina played a supporting role in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, and voiced the role of Quail in the animated comedy Storks. In April 2018, Awkwafina was announced as part of the cast of Paradise Hills, a sci-fi thriller directed by Alice Waddington and featuring Emma Roberts, Eiza González and Danielle Macdonald.

In 2018, she starred in the indie comedy Dude, and was part of the principal cast in the all-female spinoff to the Ocean's Trilogy, Ocean's 8, which was released on June 8. 

She is well known for Crazy Rich Asians (2018), Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016) and Ocean's Eight (2018).