As one of the most talked-about figures, Jamie Chung has built a significant fortune. In this article, we dive deep into the assets and career highlights.
What Is Jamie Chung's Net Worth?
Jamie Chung is an American actress and producer who has a net worth of $5 million. Jamie Chung first gained national attention appearing on MTV's "The Real World: San Diego" in 2004. She subsequently appeared on the "Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno II" (2005) and went on to win with her teammates. Jamie has played Mulan on ABC's "Once Upon a Time" (2012–2016), Janice Channing on NBC's "Believe" (2014), Clarice Fong / Blink on Fox's "The Gifted" (2017–2019), Ji-Ah on HBO's "Lovecraft Country" (2020), and Molly Park on Showtime's "Dexter: New Blood" (2021–2022), and she voiced Go Go Tomago in the 2014 Disney film "Big Hero 6" and the Disney XD/Disney Channel show "Big Hero 6: The Series" (2017–2021). Chung has more than 60 acting credits to her name, including the films "Sorority Row" (2009), "Grown Ups" (2010), "Sucker Punch" (2011), "The Hangover Part II" (2011), "Eden" (2012), "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" (2014), and "Office Christmas Party" (2016), the miniseries "Samurai Girl" (2008), and the television series "Days of Our Lives" (2007), "Resident Advisors" (2015), and "Gotham" (2016). Jamie also runs the fashion blog "What the Chung?," and she executive produced the 2015 film "Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong," which she starred in with her then-fiancé, Bryan Greenberg.
Early Life
Jamie Chung was born Jamie Jilynn Chung on April 10, 1983, in San Francisco, California. She is a second-generation Korean-American, and her parents, who moved to the U.S. in 1980, ran a burger restaurant. Chung has an older sister named Jean, and at a 2021 Sundance Film Festival panel for HBO Max's "Our Stories to Tell," Jamie said of Jean, "She came out to my parents four times before they finally accepted the fact that she was gay. It comes from like a cultural, religious refusal to accept something." Chung attended Lowell High School, and after graduating in 2001, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of California, Riverside, in 2005. As a college student, Jamie joined the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
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Career
In 2004, Chung joined the cast of the MTV reality show "The Real World: San Diego," and she competed on "Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno II" the following year. She made her acting debut in a 2006 episode of "Veronica Mars," then she guest-starred on "ER" (2007), "CSI: NY" (2007), "Greek" (2007–2008), "Castle" (2009), and "Grey's Anatomy" (2010). Jamie had a recurring role as Cordy Han on the NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives" in 2007, and she played the lead role of Heavan Kogo in the 2008 miniseries "Samurai Girl." Around this time, she also appeared in the TV movies "Katrina" (2007) and "Princess Protection Program" (2009) and the films "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" (2007), "Dragonball Evolution" (2009), "Sorority Row" (2009), and "Burning Palms" (2009). Chung reunited with her "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" co-starsAdam SandlerandKevin Jamesto play the daughter ofRob Schneider'sRob Hilliard in 2010's "Grown Ups," which grossed $271.4 million at the box office. She starred inZack Snyder's"Sucker Punch" in 2011, then she played Lauren in "The Hangover Part II" (2011) and "The Hangover Part III" (2013) alongsideBradley Cooper,Ed Helms,Zach Galifianakis, andJustin Bartha. "The Hangover Part II" brought in $586.8 million at the box office, and "The Hangover Part III" earned $362 million.
Chung appeared in the films "Premium Rush" (2012), "The Man with the Iron Fists" (2012), "Knife Fight" (2012), "Flight 7500" (2014), "Bad Johnson" (2014), "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" (2014), "Rudderless" (2014), "A Year and Change" (2015), and "Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong" (2015), and played the title role in 2012's "Eden." She voiced Go Go Tomago in the computer-animated Disney film "Big Hero 6," which grossed $657.9 million at the box office and won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and she reprised her role on "Big Hero 6: The Series" from 2017 to 2021. From 2012 to 2016, Jamie had a recurring role as Mulan on ABC's "Once Upon a Time," then she played Janice Channing on NBC's "Believe" (2014), Olivia on Hulu's "Resident Advisors" (2015), and Valerie Vale on Fox's "Gotham" (2016).
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