51 Facts About Margaret Cho

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Margaret Moran Cho was born on December 5,1968 and is an American comedian, actress, LGBT social activist, and musician.

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Margaret Cho rose to prominence after starring in the ABC sitcom All-American Girl, and became an established stand-up comic in the subsequent years.

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Margaret Cho has had endeavors in fashion and music, and has her own clothing line.

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Margaret Cho was part of the cast of the TV series Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime Television, in which she appeared as Teri Lee, a paralegal assistant.

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In 2022, Margaret Cho co-starred in the film Fire Island, a portrayal of the LBGT Asian American experience in the eponymous gay village off the South Shore of Long Island.

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Margaret Cho was born in 1968 to a family of Korean origin in San Francisco, California.

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Margaret Cho's father writes joke books and a newspaper column in Seoul, South Korea.

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Between the ages of five and twelve, Margaret Cho was "sexually molested by a family friend".

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Margaret Cho often skipped class and got bad grades in ninth and tenth grades, resulting in her expulsion from Lowell High School.

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Margaret Cho's career began to build after appearances on television and university campuses.

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In 1994, Margaret Cho won the American Comedy Award for Best Female Comedian.

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Margaret Cho secured a coveted spot as opening act for Jerry Seinfeld; at about this time, she was featured on a Bob Hope special, and was a frequent visitor to The Arsenio Hall Show.

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Margaret Cho has expressed subsequent regret for much of what transpired during the production of the show, specifically:.

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Margaret Cho hosted the New Year's Rockin' Eve 95 show with Steve Harvey.

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Margaret Cho's material dealt with her difficulties breaking into show business because of her ethnicity and weight and her resulting struggle with and triumph over body image issues and drug and alcohol addiction.

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On Valentine's Day of 2004, Margaret Cho spoke at the Marriage Equality Rally at the California State Capitol.

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Margaret Cho launched a national book tour in support of the collection.

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Margaret Cho launched "The Sensuous Woman," a burlesque-style variety show tour, in Los Angeles on August 10,2007, with tour dates scheduled through November 3, as of October 10.

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Also in 2007, Margaret Cho appeared in The Dresden Dolls' video of their song "Shores of California," which was MCed by Amanda Palmer and in The Cliks's video for "Eyes in the Back of My Head," in which she appeared as Lucas Silveira's lover.

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Later that summer, she appeared in her own semi-scripted reality sitcom for VH1, The Margaret Cho Show, which premiered on August 21,2008 and lasted one season.

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Margaret Cho next appeared in the supporting cast of the series Drop Dead Diva, which debuted in July 2009.

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Margaret Cho was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

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Margaret Cho later returned to portray Kim Jong-Il's son, Kim Jong-Un.

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Also in 2011, online human rights awareness project America 2049 had Margaret Cho appear as one of the main characters, whose videos were played as part of the main storyline.

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Since January 2013, Margaret Cho has been the co-host of the weekly podcast Monsters of Talk along with Jim Short.

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Margaret Cho embarked on her "Mother" tour in the fall of 2013 and slated it for engagements in Europe in 2014.

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In January 2019, Margaret Cho competed in season one of The Masked Singer as "Poodle".

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Margaret Cho has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.

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In June 2022, Margaret Cho co-starred in a romantic comedy film, Fire Island, directed by Andrew Ahn, airing on Hulu.

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Margaret Cho is well known for discussing her relationship with her mother, particularly in imitating her mother's heavily accented speech.

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Margaret Cho has covered substance abuse, eating disorders, her bisexuality and obsession with gay men, and Asian-American stereotypes, among other subjects, in her stand-up routines.

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When San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom directed that San Francisco's city hall issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in San Francisco in 2004, Margaret Cho started Love is Love is Love, a website promoting the legalization of gay marriage in the United States.

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Margaret Cho has been outspoken about her dislike of former President George W Bush.

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Margaret Cho began to draw intense fire from conservatives over her fiercely anti-Bush commentary; a live performance in Houston, Texas, was threatened with picketing.

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In 2004, Margaret Cho was performing at a corporate event in a hotel when, after ten minutes, her microphone was cut off and a band was instructed to begin playing.

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In 2007, Margaret Cho hosted the multi-artist True Colors Tour, which traveled through 15 cities in the United States and Canada.

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On January 25,2008, Margaret Cho officially gave her support to Barack Obama for the nomination on the Democratic ticket for the 2008 US presidential election.

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In 2003, Margaret Cho founded a clothing line with friend and fashion designer Ava Stander called High Class Margaret Cho.

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In 2004, Margaret Cho took up bellydancing and in 2006 started her own line of bellydancing belts and accessories called Hip Wear; these she sold through her website.

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Margaret Cho had extensive tattooing done to cover the majority of her back.

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In December 2006, Margaret Cho appeared on the Sci-Fi Channel's miniseries The Lost Room as Suzie Kang.

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In September 2008, Margaret Cho released her single, "I Margaret Cho Am a Woman," on iTunes.

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In May 2010, Margaret Cho directed, and appeared in, the music video for "I Wanna Be a Bear," a song by "Pixie Herculon," a pseudonym of Jill Sobule.

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In 2011, Margaret Cho sang the Bob Mould song "Your Favorite Thing" at the tribute concert See A Little Light with Grant-Lee Phillips.

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Margaret Cho married Al Ridenour, an artist involved in The Cacophony Society and the Art of Bleeding, in 2003.

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Margaret Cho was featured in an Art of Bleeding performance in March 2006.

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Margaret Cho referred to herself as "divorced" in an April 2015 profile in The New York Times, but actually filed for divorce in August 2015.

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Margaret Cho was a guest on comedian Bobby Lee's Tigerbelly Podcast Episode 71, which was uploaded on December 16,2016.

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Margaret Cho found the inquiry odd, since she did not know Swinton and had never talked to her before, nor did she have anything to do with the movie or casting.

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Margaret Cho revealed in a panel discussion that after doing genealogy testing, she discovered that she had some Chinese ancestry.

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Margaret Cho know[s] no boundaries and inspire[s] palpable fear anytime [she] begin[s] one of [her] riffs.