Moran "Margaret" Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, gay icon, and recording artist.[1] 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, Asians, and the LGBT community.
In acting terms, 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 currently part of the hit TV series Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime Television. She plays the role of Terri, assistant to lawyer Jane Bingham.
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."[2]
Cho's parents, Young-Hie and Seung-Hoon Cho,[3] 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.[4] 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[5] with actor Sam Rockwell.
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. 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.[6] In 1994, Cho won the American Comedy Award for Best Female Comedian.[7]
That same year, ABC developed and aired a sitcom based on Cho's stand-up routine. The show, All American Girl, was initially feted as the first show prominently featuring an East Asian family, although the short lived sitcom Mr. T and Tina preceded it by nearly two decades.
the year was 1994. i was sitting on the floor of my family den late on a saturday night, watching tv per usual. as i would often do at 13 years old, i immediately flipped over to hbo once my parents were snoozing. ...
this, i gotta see! before heading to new york for an off-broadway run this fall, "the sensuous woman," a burlesque-style variety show written by and starring margaret cho, debuted last night at the la gay & lesbian center's renberg ...
she is an assassin extra pictures of her fabulocity in image gallerypicture at the 46th annual grammy awards: girl..........pwhooughchhh (head explosion) bjork has a site go see at:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/en tertainment/music/639945,0,467 859.event. Margaret Cho Baltimore Sun, United States - Apr 7, 2008 Kanye West Foo Fighters Stone Temple Pilots Nine Inch Nails Jack Johnson I'm not pumped about any of these ...
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