Jamie Jilynn Chung[4] was born April 10,1983,[5][6][7] in San Francisco,California,where she grew up.[5][8] She and her older sister are second-generation Korean Americans. They were raised by "traditional" parents who moved to the United States in 1980 and ran a hamburger restaurant.[9][10] She attended Commodore Sloat Elementary School and Aptos Middle School before attending Lowell High School in the fall of 1997. After graduating from Lowell High School in 2001,[11] Chung attended and graduated from the University of California,Riverside with a B.A. in economics in 2005.[12] She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.[13]
Career
Reality television
Chung was a cast member on The Real World:San Diego,the 14th season of MTV's long-running reality TV show The Real World,which aired in 2004. At the time,MTV described her as a hard-working student who worked two jobs to pay her tuition but also enjoyed partying. She was also described by her friends as not having the best taste in men.[14]
After appearing on The Real World,Chung appeared on its spin-off game show,Real World/Road Rules Challenge,as a cast member in that show's 2005 season,The Inferno II,[15] during which she was a member of the "Good Guys" team,which squared off against the "Bad Asses". By the end of the season,after several cast members had been eliminated during the competition,Chung remained,along with her teammates Darrell Taylor,Landon Lueck,and Mike Mizanin. Chung and her teammates defeated the remaining members of the Bad Asses in the final event,and won the competition.
One of Chung's earliest on-camera appearances was in the music video for Rihanna's single "Umbrella",as first woman to the right of Jay Z. The video premiered April 26,2007.[16] In 2008,Chung had her first major onscreen role,as the series lead in the ABC Family television miniseries Samurai Girl.[17][18] In SFGate,her acting in this role was described as making "a promising bid for TV stardom."[19] It also claimed that the show was an attempt to add more diversity to TV shows.[19]
In March 2011,Chung played Amber in Zack Snyder's action fantasy film Sucker Punch,which required her to undergo physical training with Navy SEALs and work with stunt and fight choreographers who had worked on Snyder's previous films. Chung stated that she nervous about having to sing in the film:"I don't sing. I'm working on it,but just because I'm Korean doesn't mean I karaoke."[20] She then provided the voice of Aimi Yoshida in the video game X-Men:Destiny,which was released that September.[21][22]
Chung gained her first major feature film role in the 2012 film Premium Rush,directed by David Koepp.[23] That same year,she starred as the lead in the independent film Eden,in which she played a Korean American girl abducted and coerced into prostitution by American human traffickers. Since 2012,she has appeared in the recurring role of Mulan in the television series Once Upon a Time.[24]
In March 2016,Chung was cast as attorney Lana Harris in the one-hour legal drama Miranda's Rights,[27] but the series was not picked up by NBC after the pilot episode.[29]
In August 2020,Chung appeared in the HBO series Lovecraft Country. She plays the recurring character Ji-Ah,a young nurse living in Daegu during the Korean War,who falls in love with American soldier Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors). The series' sixth episode centers on Ji-Ah and garnered critical acclaim. Chung stated that this was her most challenging role to date. She added that her experience on the series inspired her to pitch her own show,which sold.[32]
In 2013,they acquired a home in Manhattan,[47] and in 2020,acquired a home in Brooklyn.[48]
In January 2025,Chung and Greenberg's house in Los Angeles was destroyed by the Southern California wildfires. They and their twin sons were unharmed.[49]
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