Lola Tung Biography
Lola Tung is an American actress and model best known for 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards (2023), It’s Not Summer Without You (2022) and We’ll Always Have Summer (2022). She rose to fame after playing her role as Isabel “Belly” Conklin in the 2022 Amazon Prime Video series The Summer I Turned Pretty.
Lola Tung Career
Tung is a proud graduate of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. She participated in LaGuardia’s virtual senior acting showcase in her final year of high school, where her current manager saw her for the first time. A few months later, Tung received an email from the manager inviting her to an audition and to start working together during the second semester of her freshman year at Carnegie Mellon University. The Summer I Turned Pretty, the television adaption of Jenny Han’s best-selling trilogy on Amazon Prime, is a television series.
The audition was for the lead part of Isabel “Belly” Conklin. Tung took virtual college classes and used Zoom to try out for the show. Later on, she was hired for the role, which counts as her first acting credit. The second season of the show was filmed in the summer of 2022 after it was renewed by Amazon Prime prior to the first season’s premiere. Shortly after being cast in the lead role of The Summer I Turned Pretty, in September 2021, Tung signed a talent agency contract with Creative Artists Agency. She will debut on Broadway as Eurydice in Hadestown in February 2024.
Lola Tung Age
Tung was born on October 28, 2002, in New York City, United States. She is 21 years old as of 2023 and she celebrates her birthday on the 28th of October every year.
Lola Tung Height and Weight
Tung stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.67 meters) and weighs 56 kg (123.5 lbs.)
Lola Tung Family
Tung is of mixed ethnicity. Her mother, Pia Tung, is of Chinese and Swedish descent, and her father, Tom Tung is of Eastern European descent. Her maternal grandmother is from Sweden. Tung has not disclosed any information about whether or not she has siblings. However, this information will be updated when available.
Lola Tung Boyfriend
Tung has not disclosed her relationship status as she is very private with her personal life. However, this information will be updated when available.
Lola Tung Salary
Tung earns from $20,000 to $35,000 per episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty an annual salary of about $100,000-$1 million.
Lola Tung Net Worth
Tung has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $5 Million which she has earned through her career as an actress and model.
Lola Tung The Summer I Turned Pretty
In the 2022 romantic drama television series, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Tung stars as Isabel “Belly” Conklin, a teenager involved in a love triangle with two brothers played by Christopher Briney as Conrad Fisher and Gavin Casalegno as Jeremiah Fisher. The story revolves around Isabel “Belly” Conklin, who soon turns sixteen, and her family’s reunion with Susannah Fisher and her two sons, Jeremiah and Conrad (the latter of whom Belly has been crushing on since she was 10).
Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher’s relationship with Belly has been affected by events from past summers as Belly struggles with growing up and her first love. Furthermore, Belly learns that change is unavoidable and that it’s crucial to take risks in order to accomplish her goals. Belly spends every summer at the Cousins Beach home of her mother’s closest friend. Being the youngest and only girl among the four children, Belly experienced feelings of exclusion as a child. However, Conrad and Jeremiah have both seen how much she has changed in the past year that summer. Their interest in her gives Belly the feeling that that will be a summer to remember.
Lola Tung Movies and TV Shows
- The Summer I Turned Pretty
- 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards
- Hadestown
- It’s Not Summer Without You
- We’ll Always Have Summer
Lola Tung Social Media Platform
Tung is very active on her Twitter and Instagram pages. She has 65.3k followers on Twitter and 4M followers on Instagram.