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Margaret Cho (Full Name: Margaret Moran Cho) is a well-known American stand-up comedian, actress, musician, fashion designer, and author who is known due to her stand-up routines, via which she critiques social and political problems, especially concerning race and sexuality. She gained fame following creating and starring in the ABC sitcom All-American Girl from 1994 to 1995 and was an established stand-up comic in the subsequent years. Since January 2013, Margaret works as the co-host of the weekly podcast Monsters of Talk alongside Jim Short.
Margaret has also had endeavors in fashion and music and has her own clothing line. She has also regularly supported LGBT rights and has received awards for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of women, Asian Americans, as well as the LGBT community.
Being an actress, Margaret has acted in such roles as Charlene Lee in It’s My Party and John Travolta’s FBI colleague in the action movie Face/Off. She became part of the cast of the TV series Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime Television, in which she was seen as Teri Lee, a paralegal assistant. Due to her portrayal of Dictator Kim Jong-il on 30 Rock, she became nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2012.
Margaret Cho Age
Margaret was born on December 5, 1968, in San Francisco, California, in the United States. She is 54 years old. Margaret celebrates her birthday on December 5, every year.
Margaret Cho Height
She is a woman of average stature. Margaret stands at a height of 5 ft 5 in (Approx 1.65 m).
Margaret Cho Family
She was born and brought up in San Francisco, California, into a Korean family. Margaret is the proud daughter of Young-Hie and Seung-Hoon Cho who ran Paperback Traffic, a bookstore on Polk Street at California Street in San Francisco. Her dad writes joke books and a newspaper column in Seoul, South Korea. Margaret’s grandfather was a Christian minister who ran an orphanage in Seoul during the Korean War and, according to Margaret, she “grew up in the church.” She was brought up in a racially diverse neighborhood near the Ocean Beach section of San Francisco, which she described as a community of “old hippies, ex-druggies, burn-outs from the 1960s, drag queens, Chinese people, as well as Koreans.
Margaret Cho Husband
Margaret married her partner Al Ridenour who worked as an artist involved in The Cacophony Society and the Art of Bleeding. The pair married in 2003. Margaret was featured in an Art of Bleeding performance in March 2006. Margaret described her marriage as “very conventional and conservative, I think. I mean we’re such weird people that people just can’t imagine that we would have a conventional marriage. But, yeah, we are very conventional.”The couple separated in September 2014 and Margaret confirmed their separation in December 2014.[She also referred to herself as “divorced” in an April 2015 profile in The New York Times, but actually filed for divorce in August 2015.
Margaret Cho Comedian
She guest-starred in April 2011, on the comedy 30 Rock in the episode “Everything Sunny All the Time Always.” Margaret portrayed Kim Jong-Il, then the leader of North Korea, that required her to speak both Korean and English. Margaret was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award due to Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. She afterward returned to portray Kim Jong-Il’s son, Kim Jong-Un. She was a contestant on the 11th season of Dancing with the Stars in 2010.
Additionally in 2011, the online human rights awareness project America 2049 had her appear as one of the main characters, whose videos were played as part of the main storyline.
Margaret Cho Tattoos
Margaret had the tattoo done by famous tattoo artist Don Ed Hardy in 2005 at the age of 37. Her tattoos have been her way of dealing with aging and learning to love her body, though her admiration for tattoos began when she was young. She has a tattoo on her upper right arm of an eye surrounded by beads. She explains: “This is a lover’s eye, which is Victorian jewelry they used to have. Secret lovers would give each other a Victorian kind of little charm and it had their eye — it didn’t have their whole face, just had their eye. And so this was done for me by a secret lover of mine, so it all sort of works out.”
Margaret also has a pink and orange peony on her right upper arm, which is one of a few on her body. “The reason she has a number of these flowers, peonies, is due to her Korean name being Korean for ‘peony,’ so she has quite a few,. Margaret has another on her chest and a third on her lower back.
Margaret Cho Movies And Tv Shows
Movies
– Angie (1994) as Admissions Nurse No. 2
– The Doom Generation (1995) as Clerk’s Wife
– It’s My Party (1996) as Charlene Lee
– Fakin’ da Funk (1997) as May-Ling
– Sweethearts (1997) as Noreen
– Can’t Stop Dancing (1999) as JoJo
– Senior Project (2014) as Ms. Ghetty
– Tooken (2015) as Brownfinger
– Good on Paper (2021) as Margot
Television Shows
– The Golden Palace (1992) as Dr. Fong
– Red Shoe Diaries (1993) as Phone Sex Worker
– All-American Girl (1991-1995) as Margaret Kim
– The Nanny (1998) as Caryn
– Sex and the City (2001) as Lynne
– One on One (2002) as Coach
– Sordid Lives: The Series (2008) as Therapist No. 17
– Where the Bears Are (2013) as Mistress Lena
– The Masked Singer (2019) as Poodle/Herself
– I Can See Your Voice (2022) as herself
Margaret Cho Weight Loss
Margaret went to prison.” During her 20s, prior to the filming of All-American Girl, Margaret was told by executives to lose weight. She dropped 30lb (13.6kg) in two weeks and went into kidney failure onset. She afterward became addicted to slimming pills.
Margaret Cho Podcast
Since January 2013, Margaret works as the co-host of the weekly podcast Monsters of Talk alongside Jim Short. She embarked on her “Mother” tour in the fall of 2013 and slated it for engagements in Europe in 2014. Its title of the tour refers not to Margaret’s impressions of her own mother, but to Cho herself.
She began in July 2019, a solo podcast titled The Margaret Cho, which features guests who primarily serve in show business. Its guests have included Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness, tattooist as well as reality TV figure Kat Von D, screenwriter Diablo Cody, drag queen Jackie Beat, and comedian and TV host Michael Yo. Margaret began a podcast in July 2019 called The Margaret Cho. The podcast features guests who primarily serve in show business and features original music by Garrison Starr.
Margaret Cho Quotes
– The power of visibility can never be underestimated.
– Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.
– Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.
– I will never stop complaining.
– Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
– Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself.
– I think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways but I get down on myself too!
– Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
– I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.
Margaret Cho Net Worth
She is a well-known American stand-up comedian, actress, musician, fashion designer, and author who is known due to her stand-up routines, via which she critiques social and political problems, especially concerning race and sexuality. Therefore, Margaret has accumulated a decent fortune over the years. Margaret’s estimated net worth is $2 million.
How Old Is Margaret Cho
Margaret is a 54-year-old who was born on December 5, 1968, in San Francisco, California, in the United States.