Actress, model, journalist and photographer Lia Chang was born as Kim Anne Chang on September 29, 1963 in San Francisco, California. Lia began her varied and extensive career in the arts as an actress and a petite runway model. She studied film and communications at Hunter College and photography at the International Center of Photography. Chang ...
Lia Chang is an award-winning filmmaker for her short film, Hide and Seek, which was named one of the top ten films of the Film Lab's 72 Hour Shootout Filmmaking competition. She was also nominated for Best Actress.
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Avenue Asia named her as one of the One Hundred Most Influential Asian Americans in 1997.
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Received a AAJA 2001 National Award for New Media and an OCA 2000 Chinese American Journalist Award.
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Appeared as the beautiful Asian girl in Levi's 501 black-and-white music video TV ads run during the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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Is a well-known photo-journalist. Exhibited "Asians in the Work Force and in the Arts" at New York University in Spring 1996.