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Jodi was born in Queens, New York, where hers was the only Asian family
and her parents the only vaudevillians on he block. She made her Broadway debut
at the age of 7 in Sidney Lumel's Nowhere To Go But Up, graduated from
New York's Peroforming Arts High school (of "Fame" renown), and studied
acting at Purchase College. Her performance in Loose Ends on Broadway led
to her first movie part, opposite Jane Fonda in Rollover. Determined
not to be typecast, Jodi has played many stage roles not traditionally identified
with Asians: Ophelia in Hamlet, Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday and
Cherie in Bus Stop, to name a few. She was back on Broadway recently,
starring in the new Flower Drum Song. She has starred in such TV series
as Miss Match, All American Girl, and Cafe Americaine; her movies
include Striking Distance, The Hot Chick andThe Pickle. Jodi also
appears in her own one-woman show, Surfing DNA, which debuted at the
Mark Taper Forum's New Works Festival and played at New York's Public Theatre.
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