Jodi Long
{{Short description|American actress}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jodi Long
| image = File:Actress Jodi Long in 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (1988) (cropped).jpg
| caption = Long in 1988
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| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
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| occupation = Actress
| years_active= 1980–present
| education = State University of New York, Purchase (BFA)
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Jodi Long is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Madame Ybarra on Cafe Americain (1993–1994), Mrs. Kim on the Margaret Cho sitcom All-American Girl (1994-1995), Ok Cha on Sullivan and Son (2012–2014), as well as her role opposite Natasha Richardson in Patty Hearst (1988). She won Best Supporting Actress at the Daytime Emmy Awards for her role in the Netflix series Dash & Lily (2020).
Early life and education
Long was born in Manhattan and raised in Queens, New York.{{cite web|title=Jodi Long – From Broadway to the Big (and Little) Screen|first=Chi-hui|last=Yang|date=July 1, 2013|work=xfinity.comcast.net|url=http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2013/07/01/jodi-long-from-broadway-to-the-big-and-little-screen}}{{Better source|date=February 2021}} Long's mother was Oregon-born Kimiye "Trudie" Long (née Tsunemitsu; died 2014), a Japanese-American clerk at the American Bible Society and a dancer at The China Doll night club. Long's father is Australia-born Lawrence K. Long (stage name Larry Leung), of Cantonese and Scottish descent. After military service in World War II, he worked his way to San Francisco, where he was half of an act called the Wing Brothers after immigrating to the United States. He had a career as a tap-dancer vaudevillian and later as a PGA golf professional. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-nov-01-ca-64135-story.html "In the Family Tradition"], latimes.com, November 1, 2001. Accessed May 8, 2025.
Jodi Long, whose parents later divorced, graduated from New York's High School of Performing Arts and earned a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase.{{cite web|title=From Shakespeare to tiger mom Jodi Long has done it all|work=Asian American Press|date=June 1, 2013|first=Tom|last=Laventure|url=http://aapress.com/community/from-shakespeare-to-tiger-mom-jodi-long-has-done-it-all|accessdate=November 7, 2016|archive-date=October 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018003612/https://aapress.com/community/from-shakespeare-to-tiger-mom-jodi-long-has-done-it-all/|url-status=dead}}
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.{{cite web|title=Actress, Jodi Long in Sullivan and Son|date=May 11, 2013|work=Long Island University Seawanhaka|first=Anisha|last=Robinson|url=http://www.seawanhakapress.com/2013/05/11/actress-jodi-long-in-sullivan-and-son|accessdate=November 7, 2016|archive-date=October 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017135218/http://www.seawanhakapress.com/2013/05/11/actress-jodi-long-in-sullivan-and-son|url-status=dead}} Towards the end of the music video for 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. She also played the role of Madame Armfeldt in the 2023 revival of A Little Night Music at the Pasadena Playhouse. 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. After they divorced, they reunited for a documentary film, Long Story Short, which was written by their daughter and directed by Christine Choy, an Academy Award-nominated director. 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 on the TBS series Sullivan & Son which was cancelled after three seasons on November 20, 2014.
Filmography
= Film =
| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ !Year !Title !Role !Notes |
| 1981
| Rollover | Betsy Okamoto | |
| 1984
| Splash | Reporter | |
| 1987
| Cocktail Waitress | |
| 1988
| |
| 1988
| Mui | |
| 1989
| T.V. Interviewer | |
| 1989
| Reporter #1 | |
| 1990
| First Dream Woman | |
| 1993
| Wendy Wong | |
| 1993
| Yakimoto Yakimura | |
| 1993
| Nikko's Mom | |
| 1993
| Kim Lee | |
| 1997
| Corey Chang | |
| 1997
| Secretary, Helen | |
| 1998
| Father Gladden's Fan | |
| 2002
| New Suit | Feng Shui Woman | |
| 2002
| Korean Mother | |
| 2010
| Dr. Long | |
| 2013
| Mother | |
| 2016
| 5 Doctors | Dr. Suzuki | |
| 2018
| The Tale | Rebecca | |
| 2021
| Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Mrs. Chen | |
| 2023
| Wangmu (voice) | |
| 2024
| Lucy Summers | |
= Television =
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Title !Role !Notes |
| 1980
| Nurse | Gail | Television film |
| 1982
| Officer Noguchi | Episode #1.4498 |
| 1984
| How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days | Mrs. Yamata | Television film |
| 1985
| Mrs. Lin | Episode: "China Rain" |
| 1986
| Jin Sung | Episode: "Three Little Spies" |
| 1988, 1990
| Joann | 2 episodes |
| 1990
| Beth Kurland | Episode: "Daryl Ross & the Supremes" |
| 1990
| Roseanne | Woman in Line | Episode: "April Fool's Day" |
| 1990
| How to Murder a Millionaire | Check Cashing Teller | Television film |
| 1991
| L.A. Law | Christina Leong | Episode: "Speak, Lawyers, for Me" |
| 1992
| Eileen Arata | Episode: "Trial and Error" |
| 1993
| Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland | Linda Chong | Television film |
| 1993–1994
| Madame Ybarra | rowspan="2" | Main role |
| 1994–1995
| Katherine Kim |
| 1995
| Angelique | Episode: "Blood Is Thicker Than Watercolor" |
| 1997
| Joan | Recurring role |
| 1999
| Patty Aston | Episode: "The Cheating Curse" |
| 2000
| Chicken Soup for the Soul | Rhonda | Episode: "Destiny in a Bottle" |
| 2001
| Neptune's Net Owner | Episode: "Manuelo in the Middle: Part 2" |
| 2002
| Polly Seager | Episode: "Unfamiliar Territory" |
| 2003
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Center Director | Episode: "Tortured" |
| 2003
| Claire | Main role |
| 2005
| Mrs. Kim | Episode: "Honor Bound" |
| 2005, 2009
| Woman (voice) | 2 episodes |
| 2006
| House | Judge | Episode: "Finding Judas" |
| 2008
| Susan Mason | Episode: "The Deciders" |
| 2008
| Mask of the Ninja | Kumioko | Television film |
| 2008–2009
| Judge Marcia Phelps | Recurring role |
| 2009
| May Nan Nhung | Episode: "Bitsy Big-Boy" |
| 2009
| Eastwick | Mrs. Yang | Episode: "Madams and Madames" |
| 2010–2011
| Judge Sonya Cruz | 3 episodes |
| 2011
| Dr. Lunt | Episode: "Assassins" |
| 2012
| Judge Noreen Poggi | Episode: "Jango and Rossi" |
| 2012
| Judge Meisner | Episode: "Payday" |
| 2012–2014
| Ok Cha Sullivan | Main role |
| 2015
| Mrs. Park | Episode: "Young and Unemployed" |
| 2016
| Col. Wright | Episode: "Dr. Adrian Shaw (No. 98)" |
| 2016–2018
| Kumiko | Recurring role |
| 2019
| Mrs. Tseng | Episode: "Unfriended" |
| 2020
| Dr. Bahn | Episode: "Side Sitting" |
| 2020
| Mrs. Basil E | 3 episodes |
| 2023
| Warlord | Episode: "Chapter 23: The Spies" |
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061019072134/http://www.chopblock.com/features/jodilong.cfm Article on Jodi Long in the webzine ''Chop Block]
- [https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800300538/bio Yahoo! Movies biography]
- {{IMDb name|0519023}}
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:State University of New York at Purchase alumni
Category:American actresses of Chinese descent
Category:American people of Scottish descent
Category:American actresses of Japanese descent
Category:Actresses from Queens, New York
Category:Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:21st-century American actresses