May Hong is an American model, actress, and artist. She has most notably modeled for designers including

Eckhaus Latta Eckhaus Latta is an American fashion brand with locations in Los Angeles and New York City. The brand is known for their use of unexpected materials, exploring texture and tactility in their designs, and for incorporating writing, performance, a ...

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, and

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. As an actress, Hong has appeared on ''

High Maintenance ''High Maintenance'' is an American anthology comedy-drama television and web series created by ex-husband and wife team Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld. The show follows The Guy, a cannabis courier (played by Sinclair), as he delivers his p ...

'', ''

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'', ''

Tales of the City ''Tales of the City'' is a series of ten novels written by American author Armistead Maupin from 1978 to 2024, depicting the life of a group of friends in San Francisco, many of whom are LGBTQ. The stories from ''Tales'' were originally seri ...

'', and the animated film ''

KPop Demon Hunters ''KPop Demon Hunters'' is a 2025 American animated musical fantasy comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation and released by Netflix. It was directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, from a screenplay by Kang, Appelhans, and Hannah McM ...

''.

Life and career

Hong was born in

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

and immigrated to the United States at age six. She was raised in

Flushing Flushing may refer to: Places Netherlands * Flushing, Netherlands, an English name for the city of Vlissingen, Netherlands United Kingdom * Flushing, Cornwall, a village in Cornwall, England * The Flushing, a building in Suffolk, England ...

Queens Queens is the largest by area of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located near the western end of Long Island, it is bordered by the ...

, New York. Hong attended high school at Fiorello LaGuardia High School, where she studied art and cultivated an interest in

printmaking Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proces ...

. She received her bachelor of fine arts degree in printmaking from RISD. Hong moved to

Brooklyn Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ...

after graduation and managed a photography studio. Her modeling career began when her friends Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta asked her to model for their fledgling brand in 2011. She continued modeling and eventually began to do commercials. She has modeled for designers including

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Marni The name Marni originates from several languages, including Hebrew, meaning "rejoice", and Latin as a variant of "Marina (given name), Marina", meaning "of the sea". It also has derivations from Goidelic languages, Gaelic and Swahili language, Swa ...

, Telfar, and

. She has also walked

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. Hong has walked in every

runway show. She has acted in the television shows ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

'', and the film ''

Adam Adam is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam). According to Christianity, Adam ...

''. Her first lead acting role was in the

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revival series ''

'' (2019) as Margot Park. Hong resides in Brooklyn.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hong, May Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American women artists 21st-century American actresses American models of Korean descent American female models American television actresses Female models from New York (state) Rhode Island School of Design alumni Artists from New York City Actresses from Queens, New York People from Flushing, Queens Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni South Korean emigrants to the United States