Lisa Olivia Munn on Wikipedia:
Lisa Olivia Munn (born July 3, 1980)[1][2] is an American actress, model, television personality and author. She began her career being credited as Lisa Munn. Since 2006, she has been using the name Olivia Munn personally and professionally.[3]
Munn was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She is of German and Irish descent on her father's side[4] and of Chinese descent on her mother's side (though her mother was born and raised in Vietnam).[5] Her mother, Kim Schmid, fled to Oklahoma after the Vietnam War ended in 1975. After college, she married Winston Munn, Munn's biological father.[6] When Munn was age two, her mother married her second husband, a member of the United States Air Force. Although the family relocated many times, Munn was predominantly raised in Tokyo, Japan,[3][7] where the military stationed her stepfather. During this time, she appeared in a number of local theater productions, and later became a model within the Japanese fashion industry.[8] Her mother and stepfather divorced and she moved back to Oklahoma, where she attended Putnam City North High School for her junior and senior years and where she was a contemporary with Hinder bassist Mike Rodden, future Oklahoma state senator David Holt and author Aaron Goldfarb.[9][10] Munn also attended the University of Oklahoma, majoring in journalism and minoring in Japanese and dramatic arts.[3]
After Munn graduated from college, she became an intern at the NBC affiliate in Tulsa,[11] and later moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.
In 2004, Munn interned at Fox Sports Net and worked as a sideline reporter for college football and women's basketball. She has gone on to say that she disliked the experience, explaining "I was trying to be something I wasn't, and that made me really uncomfortable on live TV."[7]
