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Jamie Chung

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Jamie Chung is featured in:

Season 9, Episode 4: Far From Home

Jamie Chung was born and raised in San Francisco and graduated from UC Riverside.

In 2012, Jamie won the Special Jury Award at SXSW for her performance in film EDEN, based on a true story about a young Korean girl who was abducted and forced into sex trafficking and years later miraculously saves herself. The film also won the Narrative Audience Award. Chung returned to SXSW in in 2018 in the AIDS drama "1985" based on Yen Tan's short of the same name.

In television, Jamie has received praise for her role as "Ji-Ah" in HBO's LOVECRAFT COUNTRY, which was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

In film, Jamie is known for her role in THE HANGOVER 2 & 3 hit comedy films for Warner Bros, Zack Snyder's SUCKERPUNCH with Oscar Isaac, Frank Miller/Robert Rodriguez's SIN CITY 2, and Oscar-winning animated film BIG HERO 6.

Most recently, Jamie can be seen in Showtime's revival of DEXTER: NEW BLOOD and wrapped feature film REUNION opposite Jillian Bell, Lil Rel Howery, and Billy Magnussen.

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Finding Your Roots Season Nine

Today’s most compelling personalities discover the surprising stories in their own family trees. Mixing cutting-edge DNA research and old-school genealogical sleuthing, FINDING YOUR ROOTS uncovers long-buried secrets, hidden identities, and lost ancestors. Tuesdays at 8/7c.

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