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Margaret ChoAdd to My CelebsAge 43 Birthday Dec. 5th, 1968 Born in San Francisco, California, USA Height 5' 5 |
Margaret Cho's Main TV Roles
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Main Movie Roles2010 - I Am Comic2009 - 17 Again 2008 - One Missed Call 2000 - I'm the One That I Want 1998 - The Rugrats Movie 1997 - Face/Off 1996 - It's My Party 1995 - The Doom Generation 1994 - Red Shoe Diaries 9: Hotline |
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB
Margaret Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, and recording artist. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially those pertaining to race, sexuality, and sex. She has also directed and appeared in music videos and has her own clothing line. She has frequently supported LGBT rights and has won awards for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of women, the transgender community, Asians, and the LGBT community.
As an actress she has played more serious parts, such as that of John Travolta's long-suffering FBI colleague in the action movie Face/Off. She is part of the hit TV series Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime Television, playing the role of Terri, a paralegal assistant.
Early life
Cho was born into a Korean family in San Francisco, California. She grew up in a racially diverse neighborhood in the 1970s and 1980s, which she described as a community of "old hippies, ex-druggies, burnouts from the '60s, drag queens, Chinese people, and Koreans. To say it was a melting pot—that's the least of it. It was a really confusing, enlightening, wonderful time."
Cho's parents, Young-Hie and Seung-Hoon Cho, ran Paperback Traffic, a bookstore on Polk Street at California Street in San Francisco. Her father writes joke books as well as a newspaper column in Seoul, South Korea. After Cho expressed an interest in performance, she auditioned and was accepted into the San Francisco School of the Arts, a performing-arts high school. While at the school, she became involved with the school's improvisational comedy group alongside actor Sam Rockwell.
Early career
After doing several shows in a club adjacent to her parents' bookstore, Cho launched a stand-up career and spent several years developing her material in clubs. Cho's career began to build after appearances on television and university campuses. In 1992, she appeared on the unsuccessful Golden Girls spin-off The Golden Palace in a small role. In 2010, on The View, she discussed her nervousness about doing The Golden Palace and thanked the late Rue McClanahan for her help practicing the part following the announcement of McClanahan's death. Also in the early years of her career, she secured a coveted spot as opening act for Jerry Seinfeld and was featured on a Bob Hope special. She was also a frequent visitor to The Arsenio Hall Show. In 1994, Cho won the American Comedy Award for Best Female Comedian.
TRIVIA:
- Was the star of the first sitcom to feature an all Asian-American cast (which was based on her own life and stand-up comedy act.)
- Favorite band is Canadian group Broken Social Scene.
- Her parents moved to San Francisco from Seoul, Korea in 1964.
- At age 16 started doing stand up comedy. Traveled widely with 'Janeane Garofalo' (qv) on the comedy club circuit. They blamed each other for their bad smoking habits.
- Lost 30 pounds in two weeks before the filming of the debut episode of _"All-American Girl" (1994)_ (qv). The night after completing filming, her kidneys collapsed causing her to be hospitalized.
- Is a fan of adult film actor 'Jeff Stryker' (qv). She has spoken admiringly of him in some of her stand up monologues.
- Just 3 days after she was born, her father was deported because he failed to obtain a work permit -- her mother was allowed to remain in San Francisco.
- Dated 'Chris Isaak' (qv).
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