Jodi Long
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Jodi Long (born January 7, 1954) is an American actress of Asian descent.
Early life and education
Long was born in Manhattan and raised in Queens, New York, as Jodi Leung. Kimiye "True" Long, a Japanese-American clerk at the American Bible Society and a dancer at The China Doll night club, is Long's mother. Lawrence K. Long (stage name Larry Leung), of Cantonese-Scottish origins, came from Australia and spent a career as a tap-dancer vaudevillian and then as a golf professional, as well as a PGA golfer.
Long graduated from the High School of Performing Arts in New York and received a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase.
Career
Long had roles in many feature films including Patty Hearst, RoboCop 3, Striking Distance, The Hot Chick, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. On television she appeared as a regular on such series as Cafe Americain, All-American Girl and Miss Match, all of which were short-lived. She played a therapist in Desperate Housewives, a "power lesbian" Patty in Sex and the City and a bar owner in Sullivan and Son.
Partway through the color music video clip of the 1986 song "Bizarre Love Triangle" by the English rock band New Order, Long makes a cameo appearance arguing with E. Max Frye about reincarnation.
On stage, she appeared in the 2002 Broadway revival of Flower Drum Song, winning an Ovation Award for her performance during the Los Angeles tryout. Her parents, both of whom were vaudeville-style performers, appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show on May 7, 1950 as the singing, dancing, comedy act, Larry and Trudie Leung. They were the subjects of a documentary film, Long Story Short, which was directed by Christine Choy, an Academy Award-nominated director and written by Long. The documentary won the 2008 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival's Grand Jury's Honorable Mention for a Documentary Award as well as the Audience Award. She was recently starring as Korean American mother Ok Cha in Sullivan & Son which was cancelled on November 20, 2014, by TBS.