Born Jamie Jilyn Chung on April 10, 1983 in San Francisco, California, Jamie Chung is a Korean-American actress known to reality television audiences as a cast member on the MTV reality television series, The Real World: San Diego and its spin-off show, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno II, and for her appearances in TV and films, such as I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Sorority Row, The Hangover Part II, and Sucker Punch. The Bleacher Report regards her as the most successful Real World alumna.
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 was 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. Chung won the Female Stars of Tomorrow Award at the 2009 ShoWest industry trade show along with her Sorority Row castmates.
Since her stint on The Real World, she has appeared in various television and film roles, including as Cordy Han in ten episodes of Days of our Lives, as a Hooters girl in the 2007 comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and in episodes of CSI: NY and Veronica Mars. She starred in the 2008 ABC Family show Samurai Girl in September 2008. She also had a role in the 2009 feature films Sorority Row and Dragonball Evolution, in the latter as Goku’s love interest, Chi Chi, as well as Burning Palms. Chung also stars as Chelsea Barnes in Disney Channel’s 2009 TV movie, Princess Protection Program, and as Amber Hilliard in the 2010 film Grown Ups. Chung will appear in the upcoming film Premium Rush, directed by David Koepp.
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