Margaret
Moran Cho (born December 5, 1968)[3]
is an American stand-up comedian, actress, fashion designer, author, and
singer-songwriter. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which
she critiques social and political problems, especially regarding race and
sexuality. She rose to prominence after creating and starring in the ABC
sitcom All-American Girl (1994–95), and became an established stand-up
comic in the subsequent years.
She has also had endeavors in fashion and music, and has her own clothing line. Cho has also frequently supported LGBT rights and has won awards for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of women, Asian Americans, and the LGBT community.
As an actress, she has acted in such roles as Charlene Lee in It's My Party and John Travolta's FBI colleague in the action movie Face/Off. Cho was part of the cast of the TV series Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime Television, in which she appeared as Teri Lee, a paralegal assistant. In 2012 she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her guest starring role as Dictator Kim Jong-il on 30 Rock.
Cho married Al Ridenour, an artist involved in the production of Cacophony Society and the Art of Bleeding, in 2003.[59] Cho was featured in an Art of Bleeding performance in March 2006.[60] She described her marriage as "very conventional and conservative, I think. I mean we're such weird people that people just can't imagine that we would have a conventional marriage. But, yeah, we are very conventional."[61] They were separated in September 2014 and Cho confirmed their separation in December.[62][63] Cho referred to herself as "divorced" in an April 2015 profile in The New York Times, but actually filed for divorce in August 2015.[63][64]
As of 2009, Cho was living in Peachtree City, Georgia,[65] as Drop Dead Diva was filmed in the Atlanta area.
Cho is openly bisexual,[66] and has stated that she has had "a lot of experience in the area of polyamory and alternative sexuality in general."[67] When discussing her sexuality in a 2018 Huffington Post interview, Cho said, "I don’t know using 'bisexual' is right because that indicates that there’s only two genders, and I don’t believe that. I’ve been with people all across the spectrum of gender and who have all kinds of different expressions of gender, so it’s so hard to say. Maybe 'pansexual' is technically the more correct term but I like 'bisexual' because it’s kind of ’70s."[68]
My published books:
