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Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About This Summer’s Breakout Star Awkwafina
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  1. Her birth name is Nora Lum.
  2. She was born on June 2, 1989, in New York City to a Chinese American father and a South Korean immigrant mother.
  3. Her mother, sadly, died when she was four, so her grandmother helped raise her.
  4. Awkwafina grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and attended LaGuardia High School — the same performing arts school that Nicki Minaj, Ansel Elgort, and Timothée Chalamet attended!
  5. She went to college at the University at Albany, where she majored in journalism and women's studies.
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