![]() Has that been a common thread in your conversations and encounters with fans? Lane Kim, your character on Gilmore Girls, remains one of a handful of characters whom I remember vividly as an Asian American girl growing up and watching TV. It started off so great, and then it kind of tanked. It's a strange May to be celebrating at home this year in 2020, which I thought was going to be the best year ever. ![]() And then with the lockdown and with the rhetoric that had come out about COVID-19, some of it has been disturbing towards the Asian community. It's a weird thing to say it like that, but for most of it, especially being in entertainment, I felt a bit sidelined in our community. It felt like there were ways that we were being seen that we hadn't been seen before in the media, and it felt as if we were part of the mainstream in a legitimate way. The last few years, I feel like there's been so much to celebrate in the Asian American community. She was featured in commercials for Verizon Wireless ("Flipside Testimonials: Apartment") in 2015 and UnitedHealthcare ("Pool Vault") in 2016.Keiko Agena: This year has been such a roller coaster. Agena plays a high school teacher in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why. Choi, wherein they watch every episode of the television series, Monk, while consuming alcohol. In September 2015, Agena launched Drunk Monk Podcast with fellow improv comedian Will S. While in Austin, Texas for the Gilmore Girls reunion panel at the 2015 ATX Television Festival, she also participated in two live tapings of the podcast Gilmore Guys, as well as a live performance by Lane Kim's band Hep Alien. She later appeared in an episode of House as Dr. In 2010, she appeared onstage in No-No Boy in Santa Monica, California. She also appeared in Private Valentine: Blonde & Dangerous alongside Jessica Simpson as an army private. She guest-starred on Private Practice, Castle, and episode 12 of the final season of ER. Also, Agena played Jun Ni in the movie Hair Show starring Mo'Nique. She also provided the voice of Yori in the Disney cartoon series Kim Possible in seasons 2, 3, and 4 of the show. She was a recipient of the Best Female Actor award in the Ammy Awards, which honor Asian and Asian-American achievement in film or television. Agena also appeared in three episodes of Felicity as Leila Foster, a girl who comes to the lead character for assistance in acquiring the morning-after pill and participates in a protest when denied the medication. Agena has also played the role of Mearing's Aide, Mearing being played by Frances McDormand, in Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Agena played this role despite being significantly older than her character, who was 16 at the start of the series, when Agena was 27. She attended Mid-Pacific Institute preparatory school in Oʻahu, and Whitman College for one year as a drama major.Īgena married Shin Kawasaki in a helicopter over Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, on December 19, 2005.Īgena is best known for her role in Gilmore Girls, where she played Lane Kim, a Korean-American teenager who is the best friend of Rory Gilmore, one of the lead characters. JSTOR ( June 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īgena, of Japanese descent, was born in Honolulu, and began acting at the age of 10.Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources.
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