Margaret Cho

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Margaret Cho was born Dec. 5, 1968 and raised in San Francisco. Her grandfather was a Methodist minister who ran an orphanage in Seoul during the Korean W. Ignoring the traditions of her patrichal culture, her mother bravely resisted an ranged mriage in Korea and mried Mget's father who writes joke books - in Korean.

Cho stted performing stand-up at age 16 in a comedy club called The Rose & Thistle above a bookstore her pents ran. Soon after, she won a comedy contest where first prize was opening for Jerry Seinfeld. She moved to Los Angeles in the ely '90s and lived in a house with several other young performers.

Still in her ely twenties, Cho hit the college circuit, where she immediately became the most booked act in the mket and gnered a nomination for Campus Comedian of The Ye. senio Hall introduced her to late night audiences, Bob Hope put her on a prime time special and, seemingly overnight, Margaret Cho became a national celebrity.

In 1994, she stred in a short-lived ABC sitcom called All-American Girl. In 1999, Cho chronicled her experience on the sitcom in an off Broadway one-woman show called I'm The One That I Want. The show was extremely well received, toured the U.S, and was made into a concert film and a best-selling book of the same name.

After the success of her first show, Cho launched Notorious C.H.O. in 2001, a smash-hit 37-city national tour that culminated in a sold-out concert at Cnegie Hall.

Cho embked on her third sold-out national tour, Revolution, in 2003. The concert film premiered on the Sundance Channel in 2004 and was released on DVD later that ye. The CD of Revolution was nominated for a Grammy for best comedy album of the ye for 2003. In 2004, Cho took her politically chged State of Emergency tour through the swing states of the Presidential election.

Cho has also completed her first nrative feature, Bam Bam and Celeste, which she has described as a "fag and fag hag Dumb and Dumber." It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in late 2005 and has since played at the AFI Fest, Frameline, Fusion, and the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.

Cho's second book, "I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight," was published in 2005 by Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Group (USA) and is a collection of her essays on all subjects political and pop.

In addition to her busy tour schedule, Cho also maintains an awd winning blog, has taken up bellydancing, and in the spring of 2006 stted hosting her own monthly burlesque, comedy and bellydance showcase called Margaret Cho Presents "The Sensuous Woman: A New Burlesque and Comedy Viety Show"

Mget was recently the recipient of the First Amendment Awd from the ACLU of Southern California, and the Intrepid Awd from the National Organization for Women (NOW). She has also been honored by GLAAD, American Women in Radio and Television, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), and PFLAG for "making a significant difference in promoting equal rights for all, regdless of race, sexual orientation or gender identity."