American film actor Ken Jeong was born on July 13, 1969 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, to Korean immigrants. Very soon after the birth of his son, the Jong family moved to North Carolina, as Ken’s father was invited to work at Greensboro State University as a professor.
Ken spent his childhood and adolescence in Greensboro, where he went to Walter Page High School. While studying at school, Ken took an active part in the school intellectual team, with pleasure played the violin in the orchestra. For
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American film actor Ken Jeong was born on July 13, 1969 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, to Korean immigrants. Very soon after the birth of his son, the Jong family moved to North Carolina, as Ken’s father was invited to work at Greensboro State University as a professor.
Ken spent his childhood and adolescence in Greensboro, where he went to Walter Page High School. While studying at school, Ken took an active part in the school intellectual team, with pleasure played the violin in the orchestra. For honesty and openness of soul, for good attitude to teachers, classmates, Zhong was elected to the student council. At the age of sixteen, Ken Zhong successfully graduated from school, in 1990 he completed a course at Duke University with honors.
In the youthful character of Ken Zhong inexplicably coexisted seriousness of his thoughts, actions and comic talent. Ken saw his future in medicine and wanted to become a doctor. In 1995, Ken graduated from the University of North Carolina and received a medical degree, after which Zhong enters an internship at Osher Medical Center, which is located in North Orleans. Simultaneously with his internship, the irrepressible and restless student began to perform on stage as a stand-up comedian.
Comic talent of the future actor noticed when he won Big EASY LAFF-OFF. The judges were so stunned and surprised by Jong’s high talent that they strongly advised him to move to Los Angeles so that he could develop his talent there and build a future career that would reach a star level.
In Los Angeles, the actor began to perform regularly in various comedy clubs, theatrical improvisations, which very quickly brought success to Zhong and soon he began to appear on television. These were the first small roles in the TV series “The Office”, “Beauties”, “Mad TV” and others. Ken's success was rapidly gaining momentum and, very soon, the audience saw the actor in the series, which brought him popularity and recognition of the viewer. Quite good can be called Ken's work in the series "American Dad", "Shield", "Jordan Investigation", "Boston Lawyers", "Long and Happy", etc.
The film debut of the actor was the shooting in the film “A little pregnant”. This picture was followed by films: "Adult surprise", "step brothers", "Uncle P", etc.
World fame Ken Zhong brought the role in the film “Bachelor party in Vegas”, where he played an eccentric Chinese man from the trunk. The actor was so skillfully and talented able to get used to the image and convey the main features of his character that Zhong was again invited to the shooting of the second part of “Bachelor party-2”. From Vegas to Bangkok.
Ken Jong participates in various advertising campaigns, is a lot engaged in charity. /
