Margaret Cho
| Margaret Cho | |
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Cho in 2009
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| Birth name | Margaret Moran Cho |
| Born |
December 5, 1968 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Medium | Stand-up comedy, television, film |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Genres | Political satire, LGBT humor |
| Subject(s) | LGBT rights, race, liberal issues |
| Spouse | Al Ridenour (m. 2003; div. 2014) |
| Notable works and roles |
Assassin I'm the One That I Want |
| Website | margaretcho |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 조모란 |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Jo Mo-ran |
| McCune–Reischauer | Cho Moran |
Margaret Moran Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American stand up comedienne, actress, fashion designer, author, and singer-songwriter. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially regarding race and sexuality. She has created music videos and has her own clothing line of crotchless underwear for men and women. Cho has also frequently supported LGBT rights and has won awards for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of women, Asians, and the LGBT community.
As an actress, she 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. Cho was part of the cast of the TV series Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime Television, in which she appeared as Teri Lee, a paralegal assistant.
Cho was born into a Korean family in San Francisco, California. She grew up in a racially diverse neighborhood in the 1970s and 1980s, which she described as a community of "old hippies, ex-druggies, burn-outs from the 1960s, drag queens, Chinese people, and Koreans. To say it was a melting pot — that's the least of it. It was a really confusing, enlightening, wonderful time."
Cho's parents, Young-Hie and Seung-Hoon Cho, ran Paperback Traffic, a bookstore on Polk Street at California Street in San Francisco. Her father writes joke books and a newspaper column in Seoul, South Korea.
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