Jean Yoon

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jean Yoon
Occupation	TV Actress
Date Of Birth	May 4, 1962(1962-05-04)
Age	62
Birthplace	Champaign
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Taurus

Jean Yoon Biography

Jean Yoon is one of the most popular and richest TV Actress who was born on May 4, 1962 in Champaign, Illinois, United States. ACTRA Award-winning and Canadian Screen Award-nominated actress for her role as Umma in the television adaptation of Kim’s Convenience. She played the same role in the 2011 play of the same name. She was also a writer, playwright and poet as well.

While she portrayed the family matriarch in Kim’s Convenience, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee portrayed the patriarch.

Jean Yoon (born May 4, 1962) is an American born, Korean-Canadian actress, writer, playwright and poet. Yoon is best known for originating the role of family matriarch Umma in the 2011 play Kim’s Convenience and in the award- winning CBC Television series adapted from the play, for which she won an ACTRA Award and received two Canadian Screen Award nominations.

Yoon started her career in theatre as an actress in the early 1980s, but soon quit in frustration after she struggled to attract work and went on to complete her degree at the University of Toronto (BA Innis 1989). A decade later, in 1995, she returned to acting and started her own group called Loud Mouth Asian Babes, through which she has written and produced plays that focus on the Korean diaspora, mostly in Canada.

Her parents were Korean. She was raised in Toronto, Canada after being born in Illinois. She has one child.

Jean Yoon Net Worth

Jean Yoon is one of the richest TV Actress from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jean Yoon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She initially quit acting in the 1980s as she failed to attract work. She returned to the craft a decade later in 1995 and started her own group called Loud Mouth Asian Babes.

She authored a multi-media performance art comedy called The Yoko Ono Project which earned a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination and a Jessie Richardson Award.

Yoon was born in Champaign, Illinois to parents of Korean descent in 1962 and subsequently raised in Toronto, where she currently resides and works.

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Who is Jean Yoon Dating?

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Yoon has one child; in a 2017 interview with NOW Magazine, she described herself as a “mom who acts.”

Facts & Trivia

Jean Ranked on the list of most popular TV Actress. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jean Yoon celebrates birthday on May 4 of every year.

Who made Kim's Convenience?

“Kim’s Convenience” is based on playwright and actor Ins Choi’s play of the same name. According to Yoon’s tweets, Choi was the only Korean writer credited on the show for its first four seasons. Kevin White , the show’s white co-creator and showrunner, helmed an overwhelmingly white writer’s room.

Where is Kim's Convenience filmed?

Kim’s Convenience
Production locations| Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Running time| 30 minutes
Production company| Thunderbird Films
Release

What ethnicity is Jean Yoon?

Jean Yoon (born May 4, 1962) is an American-born Canadian actress and writer of Korean descent.

Who plays Umma in Kim's Convenience?

Kim (“Umma”) [ Jean Yoon ] Umma is Appa’s 54 year-old Korean wife, and co- owner of Kim’s Convenience.

What is Kwamis accent?

He said when he auditioned for the role of Kwami, the character breakdown said he was a Black man with either a British or island accent , so when he auditioned he used his Bermudian accent.