{"id":126012,"date":"2026-01-16T18:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/126012\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:10:10","slug":"this-kpop-demon-hunters-lead-actress-grew-up-in-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/126012\/","title":{"rendered":"This \u2018KPop Demon Hunters\u2019 lead actress grew up in Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lead actress in Netflix\u2019s megahit KPop Demon Hunters has deep ties to Texas and the Dallas-Fort Worth area.<\/p>\n

Arden Cho, who voices Rumi in the movie, was born in Amarillo to Korean parents in 1985. \u201cI always joke and say that when my parents immigrated to America, my dad was like, \u2018I\u2019m gonna go to the biggest state.\u2019 And he chose Texas,\u201d she said in an interview<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

She and her family later moved to San Antonio followed by Plano, where she spent most of her childhood, she said in another interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, she appeared<\/a> on The Kelly Clarkson Show, where she spoke about her Texas roots. She was \u201cobsessed\u201d with the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> as a kid, she said, and still is a fan. She also told Clarkson, a fellow Texan, that she has been \u201csuch a big part\u201d of her life and that it\u2019s been her dream to meet her.<\/p>\n

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But she also shared about what it was like growing up as \u201cmaybe the only Asian kid\u201d at school in the \u201990s. \u201cAt that time,\u201d she said, \u201cI didn\u2019t really know what that meant. It was rarely talked about. Being Asian-American wasn\u2019t like a thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cho starred in Netflix\u2019s Partner Track and is also known for being in MTV\u2019s Teen Wolf. She booked her role on KPop Demon Hunters after first auditioning for a different character through a voice note, she told Jimmy Fallon<\/a> this week. She recently won an Astra Film Award for best voiceover performance for her part in the movie, which took home the Golden Globes<\/a> for best animated feature and best original song on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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