

At the time she was selected to be on TRW:SD, she was described by MTV as a hard-working student who worked two jobs to pay her tuition but also enjoyed partying. Career Reality televisionĬhung was a cast member on The Real World: San Diego, the 14th season of MTV's long-running reality TV show The Real World, which first aired in 2004.

She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. After graduating from Lowell High School in 2001, Chung attended and graduated from the University of California, Riverside with a B.A. She and her older sister are second-generation Korean-American, raised by "traditional" parents who moved to the United States in 1980, and ran a hamburger restaurant. Jamie Jilynn Chung was born Ap in San Francisco, California, where she grew up. Beginning in August 2020, Chung began appearing in the recurring role of Ji-Ah on the HBO series Lovecraft Country. Chung played the lead role in the miniseries Samurai Girl, was a series regular in the two seasons (2017–19) of the superhero drama series The Gifted, played the recurring role of Mulan in the ABC fantasy television series Once Upon a Time, and has been a series regular, since 2017, as the voice of Go Go Tomago for the animated Big Hero 6: The Series – the role she voiced in the 2014 film. Chung received critical acclaim for her lead performance in the independent drama film Eden. She later transitioned into acting and has since become known for films such as Dragonball Evolution, Grown Ups, Premium Rush, Sorority Row, The Hangover Part II, Sucker Punch, and Big Hero 6 (2014). She is regarded by many as the Real World alumna with the most successful media career.

She began her career in 2004 as a cast member on the MTV reality series The Real World: San Diego and subsequently through her appearances on its spin-off show, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno II. Jamie Jilynn Chung (born April 10, 1983) is an American actress and former reality television personality.
