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• Father is Chinese-Australian; mother is Japanese-American.
• During World War II, her mother spent a year in an internment camp in Idaho.
• Parents were popular husband-and-wife nightclub team, Larry and Trudie, who performed in the 1940s and '50s and appeared on  The Ed Sullivan Show in 1950.
• Made her Broadway debut in 1962 in Nowhere to Go But Up, directed by Sidney Lumet.
• Provided vocals on Fred Houn’s Asian American Art Ensemble's 1985 jazz album, Bamboo That Snaps Back.
• Appeared before Judge Judy in a 1998 episode.
• Father was in the original 1958 cast of Flower Drum Song, and she starred as Madame Liang in the 2002 Broadway revival.
• Performed in a 2007 autobiographical one-woman play called Surfing DNA.
• Wrote and narrated the 2008 documentary Long Story Short, which tells the story of her parents' years as performers.