1. Lauren Tom was born on August 4,1961 and is an American actress.
17 Facts About Lauren Tom
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Lauren Tom began her career on stage, winning an Obie Award, and gained recognition for her role in The Joy Luck Club.
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Lauren Tom was born in the Chicago suburb Highland Park, Illinois, on August 4,1961, the daughter of Nancy and Chan Lauren Tom, Jr.
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Lauren Tom's parents were born in Chicago, and their grandparents came from Kaiping, Guangdong, China.
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At age 17, Lauren Tom landed a spot with a touring company of A Chorus Line and was cast in the Broadway production of the show less than a year later in the role of Connie.
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Lauren Tom won an Obie Award for her Off-Broadway acting and was cast in the Broadway shows Hurlyburly and Doonesbury.
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Lauren Tom has played several supporting roles in films including Wall Street, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, and Blue Steel.
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Since the mid-1990s, Lauren Tom has focused primarily on voiceover roles.
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Lauren Tom has appeared in a few live-action films, including the 2003 comedy Bad Santa and the 2004 film In Good Company.
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Lauren Tom subsequently appeared on The Equalizer, Vengeance Unlimited, Catfish With Black Bean Sauce, thirtysomething, Quantum Leap, Chicago Hope, Homicide: Life on the Street, Grace Under Fire, Friends, The Nanny, The Middle, DAG, The Division, Monk, My Wife and Kids, Barbershop: The Series, Grey's Anatomy, The Closer, and Men in Trees.
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Lauren Tom had a supporting role on the 8th and 9th season of the drama series Supernatural as prophet Kevin Tran's mother, Linda Tran.
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Lauren Tom appeared in the 2nd season of Friends as Julie.
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Lauren Tom began vocal work in the animated series Superman: The Animated Series playing Angela Chen.
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Since first playing the character on stage in the 1983 Doonesbury musical, Lauren Tom has periodically voiced the character Honey Huan in media related to Doonesbury, most notably in a series of animated shorts satirizing the 2000 US presidential election.
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Lauren Tom guest-starred in The Penguins of Madagascar as Chuck Charles's co-anchor, Bonnie Chang, in "Gator Watch" and "All Tied Up With a Boa".
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Lauren Tom voiced Li Li Stormstout in World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria and played Hayaku on an episode of Turbo FAST.
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Lauren Tom has since married actor Curt Kaplan in October 1999, with whom she has two sons.