- Born
- Height1.69 m
- At the age of five, Lynn Chen began singing on the stage of The Metropolitan Opera House. She has been performing ever since. Her feature film debut was in Sony Pictures Classics' Saving Face, a role that won her the title of "Outstanding Newcomer" at the 2006 AXAwards. She has been a fixture on the film festival circuit -- including Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca, and SXSW. In 2017, she won "Best Actor" at the NBC Shorts Fest and a talent holding deal with the network.
Lynn was featured in Variety's 2020 "Power of Women" Issue for her directorial debut I WIll Make You Mine, which she also wrote, produced, and starred in. The movie has a 100% Rotten Tomato Rating and was an Official Selection of the 2020 SXSW Film Festival.
Lynn has produced, directed, and hosted non-scripted content for outlets like BuzzFeed, Tastemade, Hello Giggles, and ISATV that have seen over 40 million views. She founded the blogs/podcasts "The Actor's Diet" and "Thick Dumpling Skin" (the first site dedicated to Asian-Americans and eating disorders). She has been featured on NPR, Cosmopolitan, and Marie Claire Magazine and has been a speaker at various colleges (Stanford, Dartmouth, Wellesley), conferences (WonderCon), and festivals (Disneyland California Adventure Food & Wine) for her acting work and body image activism. Lynn has been an Ambassador for The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) and Miry's List. She has also written for LA Weekly, Filmmaker Magazine, and cupcakes & cashmere.- IMDb mini biography by: About
- SpouseAbe Forman-Greenwald(April 2003 - present)
- ChildrenNo Children
- Race / EthnicityAsian
- "Saving Face" was the very first script she ever read.
- The name of her band, YPOK2, is an acronym for her favorite line from "The Karate Kid", "You pretty OK, too" spoken by the late Pat Morita.
- Graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in Music and Women's Studies
- Has a band, YPOK2, with husband, actor Abe Forman-Greenwald
- Has played classical piano on and off since the age of five. She's the lead singer and keyboardist for her band, YPOK2.
- I was so scared to tell my mom that I had done a nude scene, and when I finally told her she was like, 'Oh my god, oh my god. Okay.'
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