Birth Name : Jamie Ji-Lynn Chung
Date of Birth : 10 April 1983, San Francisco, California, USA
Occupation : Actress
Jamie Chung was born and raised in San Francisco, California. According to MTV's 2004 biography page for her, she is a second-generation Korean-American raised by "traditional" parents, and was known to "tell it like it is." Chung attended the University of California, Riverside, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
She was working at a sports bar in Riverside, California when MTV held auditions there in 2004 and asked her to try out for the reality series The Real World, in which each season, a group of seven people in their 20s from different backgrounds and countries lived together in a major city. Jamie was cast in the series, then made her acting debut with a small role on the TV series Veronica Mars. Next followed the role of Ella in the MTV TV movie Katrina (2007). She made her feature film debut playing a Hooters girl in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007) starring Adam Sandler.
She played recurring roles on the soap opera Days of Our Lives and the ABC Family TV series Greek before landing the lead in the six-episode ABC Family TV series Samurai Girl, playing Heaven, the adopted daughter of wealthy parents who strives to balance a normal life with the Samurai traditions of her ancestors. Other television credits include the Disney Channel movie "Princess Protection Program, and guest appearances on ER, Grey's Anatomy, Castle and CSI: NY.
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