Biography
Date of Birth
10 December 1983, San Francisco, California, USA
Birth Name
Jamie Ji-Lynn Chung
Height
5' 6ΒΌ" (1.68 m)
Mini Biography
Jamie Chung was born and raised in California, the daughter of Korean parents. She studied Economics at the University of California, Riverside. Chung's break came in 2004, when she was working in a sports bar. MTV held auditions for The Real World (1992) there, she tried out, and was successful, appearing in the San Diego based fourteenth season.
Chung went on to successfully launched an acting career, making her debut with a small part in Veronica Mars (2004). Roles in other TV series followed, including Days of Our Lives (1965) and Greek (2007). She also transitioned into feature films with such projects as Sorority Row (2009), Sucker Punch (2011) and The Hangover Part II (2011).
Trivia
Is of Korean heritage
Was working at "Tremors", a sports bar in Riverside, California, as a waitress. When MTV held auditions there, they saw her and asked her to audition..... she got it.
A member of the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma
Her movie Dragonball Evolution (2009) came out on her 26th birthday, April 10th.
She replaced Emma Stone in Sucker Punch (2011) when Emma dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.
Graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco, California in 2001 and from the University of California at Riverside in 2005 where she earned her Bachelor's Degree in economics.
Engaged to Bryan Greenberg (2014).
Has studied Taekwondo.
(October 31, 2015) Married her boyfriend of 3 years Bryan Greenberg at El Capitan Canyon in Santa Barbara, California, following a 22-month-long engagement.
She was considered for the role of Elizabeth Braddock/Psylocke in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), but Olivia Munn was cast instead.
Quotes
To be honest with you, I'm more of a girl's girl. I'm much more comfortable being around other girls.
The casting directors that were aware of 'The Real World' looked at me as a joke. It was so hard to get away from that.
I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.
I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.
I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.
There are these creative shows, all on cable, that are just so daring and out there. That's the stuff I really want to be a part of, like with 'Sucker Punch' and 'Hangover 2.' Those movies didn't hold back. They really went for it.
If acting doesn't work out, I plan to do food photography and just eat my way through the entire world. I'm a big foodie, and if I could make some career out of it, that would be fantastic.
