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Ronny Chieng is a Malaysian-Chinese actor and comedian. Ronny Chieng is famous for his performances in various international shows including ‘Ronny Chieng: International Student’, ‘Asian Comedian Destroys America!’, ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and ‘The Daily Show’ among many others.
Early life
Ronny Chieng was born on November 21, 1985 and he is currently 37 years. His full name is Ronny Xin Yi Chieng and his native name is 錢信伊. He comes from Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. Talking about his family, he is from a Malay-Chinese family.
He grew up in both Singapore and Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. Furthermore, despite living in Australia for a decade, she has no citizenship or permanent residence in Australia.
When I lived in Johor Bahru, I went daily to Fuchun Primary School in neighboring Singapore. He then attended Pioneer Secondary School and Pioneer Junior College in Singapore. Later he attended the University of Melbourne in Australia. At the time he was living at Trinity College.
He graduated from the university in 2009 with a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) and a Bachelor of Laws. He also obtained a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Australian National University in 2012. As a young man, Chieng was also a Singapore Marine Explorer.
Ronny Chieng – Net worth 2022
Moving on, Chieng has an estimated net worth of approximately $3 million US dollars.
Career and professional life
Professionally, Ronny Chieng is a comedian and actor. He is currently a senior correspondent at The daily show on Comedy Central and also a comedy creator and star. Ronny Chieng: international student. The latter premiered on ABC (Australia) and Comedy Central Asia in 2017.
The actor began to attract attention after performing alongside Trevor Noah at several comedy festivals. He is also popular for starring in his own Netflix comedy special called Asian Comedian Destroys America! in 2019. In this program he jokes about consumerism, racism and immigrants. Furthermore, he is also famous for starring in the popular movie. Crazy rich asians alongside fellow Asian actors Constance Wu and Henry Golding.
The Age named Ronny in 2012 as one of the top 5 up-and-coming acts to watch. Likewise, the Sydney Morning Herald also named him one of the top 10 rising comedians in Australia.
Caption: Ronny posing for a photo with his ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ co-stars. Source: popsugar
The beginning
Furthermore, he started performing comedy in Melbourne in the year 2009. Since then, the famous comedian/actor has done 4 sold-out comedy theater world tours in various countries. Some of the countries he has toured include Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India, Canada and London.
Caption: Ronny on the poster for ‘The Daily Show’ with Noah Trevor. Source: Deadline
The actor has also been invited to the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in the years 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016. He also made his debut on American television in the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in 2015. The actor also sold out his stand-up comedy tours at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, London’s SOHO Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Town Hall, Sydney’s Enmore Theater and the Esplanade Concert Hall. from Singapore and PJ Live Arts in Malaysia.
More details
Additionally, the actor was invited to open for Dave Chappelle and Bill Burr on their national live comedy tours in Australia. Also in Australia, he has written and performed in multiple television comedy shows. Some of them are Issues in 2012Legally Brown in 2014, It’s a date from 2013 to 2014, Kinne in 2015, and several more.
In 2016, he co-created and starred in his television comedy pilot. Ronny Chieng: international student on ABC (Australia). This show won “Short Film Production of the Year” at the 16th Screen Producers Australia Awards. Additionally, it was nominated for “Best Comedy Show at the Asian Television Awards 2016” in Singapore.
Caption: Ronny is captured in a scene from the romantic comedy: Long Story Short. Source: Instagram
Additionally, he has toured and recorded four one-hour comedy specials: Ron’s path in 2012, You can do this? No, You can not. in 2013, Chieng reaction in 2014, and You don’t know what you’re talking about in 2015. He has won or been nominated for the following awards:
- Best Newcomer Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2012
- Directors’ Choice Award Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2014
- Best Show Sydney Comedy Festival 2014
- Nominated for Best Comedy Premiere ARIA Awards 2014 and 2015
- Nominated for the Helpmann Awards for Best Comedy Performer in 2014 and 2015
In 2015 he moved to New York City. It was after he was hired as a correspondent at The Daily program. For the show, he works with Trevor Noah. Then in 2016, Variety named Ronny one of 10 Comics to Watch.
civil status
Ronny Chieng is a married man. His wife’s name is Hannah Pham. Hannah is a Vietnamese-Australian citizen. Furthermore, he and Hannah got married on September 9, 2016.
Caption: Ronny posing for a photo with his wife at an event. Source: Instagram
Body measurements
There is no verified information about the details of Chieng’s body measurements, including his height, weight, chest, waist and hip measurements, biceps, etc. Likewise, she has dark brown hair and eyes of the same color.
Ronny Chieng – Social Networks
Talking about his social media presence, Ronny joined Twitter in February 2010 and till now he has more than 138.6 thousand followers on his @ronnychieng account. He is also available on Instagram as @ronnychieng. While writing this biography, he shared 1,120 posts and gained more than 282 thousand followers on his account. He also has a Facebook page with more than 340,000 followers.
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