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John Cho

John Yohan Cho is famous, for being a competent American actor and a musician. He is a South Korean, born on June 16, 1972 in Seoul. He spent his early childhood life in United States, Los Angeles. He had a political background, his father was a minister, used to speak in English, unlike John Cho who grew speaking Korean. He received his graduation degree from Herbert Hoover High School of California. For the further studies, he became the part of the University of California, for gaining his BA degree in the subject of English. For exploring his talent, he started teaching English in the Pacific Hills School along with working as an actor in Los Angeles’s theatre called as East West Players.

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John Cho’s net worth is $16 Million. He, through acting in plays, movies and comedies etc., earns his net worth. He is a talented   actor and a handsome man, with the height of 5.84.John Cohn’s acting journey actually, began by his work in 1996, in Edward Sakamoto’s “The Taste of Kona Coffee”. After, gaining success in it, he became the part of another acting role in Euijoon Kim’s movie named as “My Tired Broke Ass”. After these two acting roles, he played a very minor role of “MLF Guy #2”, in the comedy movie, the American Pie.  This minor role laid the foundation of his career’s bright future. He played famous roles in the American Pie 2, the American Wedding and the most noticeable one is the American Reunion, within which he played a very strong role. He starred in the versatile roles such as Aide#3, Clarence, Joey, Sale House Mn#1, Nightclub Cleaner in the films “Wag the Dog”, “Shopping for Frangs”, “Yellow”, “American Beauty”, and “Bowfinger” respectively. The most memorable of all his roles is the“Harold Lee” character in the famous “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle”. He gains fame for his role in the Harold & Kumar. He, being a talented actor, has been chosen for the role Henry Higgs in the American comedy  TV series based on sitcom genre, named as Selfie. Selfie is the TV series, based on the American theme of romantic comedy. This character also brings fame to Cohn, which appears to be very influential for his acting career in the successive years.

He is also a musician; he was the part of Los Angeles band- Viva La Union, which was having the students of UCB and USC. He, in collaboration with his partners, composed an album and their one of the song with the name “Chinese Baby” was made the part of Cho’s most popular work-Harold & Kumar Escape.

His personal life is also influenced by acting, as he married to Kerri Higuchi, who is an actress. They blessed with a son and a daughter. Their residence, recently is in Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles remained the most of the important part of his life, as he spent his most of the life there, began his career in its theatre, graduated from here, and even after married, permanently chose it for his residence.


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 16 Jun, 1972
Age: 47 yrs
Citizenship: United States of America
Birth Place: Seoul
Education: University of California, Berkeley
Herbert Hoover High School
Gender: Male
Description: Korean American actor
Twitter Id: JohnTheCho
Net Worth 2021: 25 million
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Last Modified: Feb 19 2023
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