Video Actor: Brenda Song
Brenda Song was born on March 27, 1988, in Carmichael, California, a suburb of Sacramento, to a Thai father from Bangkok and Thai Hmong mother from Chiang Mai.
Her father works as a school teacher and her mother, a housewife. She has two younger brothers named Timmy and Nathan Song.
When she was six years old, Song moved with her mother to Los Angeles, California to support her acting career. The rest of the family followed two years later. As a young girl, Song wanted to do ballet.
Brenda Song began in show business as a child fashion model in San Francisco after being spotted in a shopping mall by an agent from a modeling school. She began acting at the age of five or six in a Little Caesars commercial and then a Barbie commercial.
Her first film role was in the 1995 Requiem, an AFI student short film by actress Elizabeth Sung.