As per our current Database, Awkwafina is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, Awkwafina is 36 years, 5 months and 19 days old. Awkwafina will celebrate 37rd birthday on a Monday 2nd of June 2025. Below we countdown to Awkwafina upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Awkwafina |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Age | 35 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | |
| Born | June 02, 1988 () |
| Birthday | June 02 |
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Awkwafina was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Born to a Chinese American father and South Korean immigrant mother, Lum grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City. Her great-grandfather was a Chinese immigrant in the 1940s and 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 grandmother.
Lum attended LaGuardia High School where she played trumpet and was trained in classical and jazz music. At age 16, she adopted the stage name Awkwafina, which "[refers to] a person [she] repressed" and an alter ego to her "quiet and more passive" personality during her college years. Lum majored in journalism and women's studies at The University at Albany. From 2006 to 2008, Lum attended the Beijing Language and Culture University in Beijing, China, where she studied Mandarin.
In 2014, Lum was added to the cast of the third season of Girl Code. In 2015, she served as a co-host with TV personality Nessa and Comedian Carly Aquilino for the spin-off titled Girl Code Live on MTV.
In 2015, publisher Potter Style, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, released Awkwafina's NYC, Lum's travel guide to New York City.
Lum is profiled in the documentary Bad Rap, which was an official selection at the 2016 TriBeCa Film Festival. Produced by Salima Koroma and Jaeki Cho, the film puts the spotlight on her as well as upcoming fellow Asian American Rappers such as Dumbfoundead, Rekstizzy, and Lyricks.
Lum was honored as Kore Asian Media's Female Breakout of the Year in December 2017.
In April 2018, she was announced as part of the cast of Paradise Hills, a sci-fi thriller directed by Alice Waddington and featuring Emma Roberts, Eiza Gonzalez and Danielle Macdonald.
