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LOS ANGELES – AUG 12: Long at the Dynamic & Diverse: A 66th Emmy Awards Celebration of Diversity Event at Television Academy on August 12, 2014 in North Hollywood, CA, kathclick /Bigstock.com
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: January 7, 1954
Ethnicity: * father – Chinese, Scottish * mother – Japanese
Jodi Long is an American actress. She is known for her roles on the shows Cafe Americain , Sullivan and Son , and Dash & Lily , and in the films Patty Hearst (1988), The Tale (2018), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings , and Night Swim .
Jodi is the daughter of actors and dancers Trudy Long (born Kimiye Tsunemitsu) and Larry Leung (Lawrence K. Long). Her father was a tap dancer, vaudevillian, and PGA golf professional. Her mother was a clerk at the American Bible Society and a dancer at The China Doll night club. Her father was born in Australia, to a Chinese father and a Scottish mother. Her mother was born in Portland, Oregon, and was put in a Japanese-American internment camp at the age of ten.
Jodi’s maternal grandfather was named Manichi Tsunemitsu.
Jodi’s maternal grandmother was named Hideno Watanabe.