Ken Jeong

Ken Jeong: Biography in Details

Who is Ken Jeong?

Multi-talented Ken Jeong is an American comedian, actor, and physician. He is active in the entertainment field since 1997 and he is best known for his roles as Ben Chang on the critically acclaimed NBC/Yahoo! sitcom Community and gangster Leslie Chow in The Hangover Trilogy.

Ken Jeong’s early life, childhood, and education

American comedian Ken Jeong was born in Detroit and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was born on 13 July 1969 and named as Kendrick Kang-Joh Jeong.

He was born to South Korean immigrants. His mother’s name is Young Jeong and his father’s name is D.K. Jeong. He is of Korean ethnicity and has an American nationality. There is no information on his siblings.

Jeong studied at Walter Hines Page High School where he earned him Greensboro’s Youth of the Year award. He graduated from Duke University in 1990 and obtained his M.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in 1995.

Is Ken Jeong active on social media?

He is active on social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, He has more than 888k followers on Facebook, he has around 1.2 million followers on Instagram, and has more than 973 k on Twitter.

Ken Jeong’s career, salary, and net worth

Talking about the career journey of Ken Jeong, he started out as a physician practicing medicine for several years at a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Woodland Hills. His background in theater and improv has led to several television appearances. In 1997, he debuted in the television series The Big Easy as Dr. Tang.

After onward, he appeared in numerous television show with short roles. In 2007, he appeared in the movie Knocked up portraying the character of Dr. Kuni. After landing a few more roles in movies and TV, he was encouraged by his wife to quit his job and pursue a full-time acting career.

His career took on a successful path when he portrayed the character of Leslie Chow in The Hangover Trilogy. For the role, he was nominated in several awards and he was known to the world as an actor as well. He has won MTV Movie Awards for Best WTF Moment for his role in Hangover.

In 2009, he appeared as Ben Chang in the television show Community which ended in 2015. In 2015, he appeared in the lead role of Ken Park in the television show Dr.Ken. He was also a creator, writer, and executive producer of the show but the show got canceled in 2017.

He has also appeared in the music video I Like How It Feels and Boombox. His success in his career path has paid him well making his net worth estimated to be $14 million.

Ken Jeong’s  controversy

He was criticized when he opened up on The Ellen DeGeneres Show about going to the Golden Globes for the first time.

How tall is Ken Jeong?

He has a height of 5 feet 5 inches with a bodyweight of 64 kg. He has black hair color and his eye color is dark brown.

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