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Trivia
Dated Chris Isaak.
Dated
Garrett Wang.
Dated
Quentin Tarantino.
Her
mother was unable to provide for Margaret on her own, so
she sent Margaret to Korea to live with her father and grandparents.
Just
3 days after she was born, her father was deported because
he failed to obtain a work permit -- her mother was allowed
to remain in San Francisco.
Went
to at School McAteer High School for the Performing Arts.
Got
kicked out of Lowell High School Because she had an 0.6
GPA but later she was accepted to McAteer High School for
the Performing Arts.
Her
parents Moved to San Francisco in 1964 from Seoul, Korea.
At age
16 started doing stand up comedy.
Was
the star of the first sitcom to feature an all Asian-American
cast (which was based on her own life and stand-up comedy
act.)
Lost
40 pounds in two weeks before the filming of the debut episode
of "All American Girl." The night after completing
filming, her kidneys collapsed.
Was
hired to play a TV version of herself, but then forced to
both lose weight and act "more Asian". Several
episodes later was instructed to act "less Asian."
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