About
Lola Marie Tung (born October 28, 2002) is an American actress and singer. She is known for playing Isabel “Belly” Conklin in the Amazon Prime Video series The Summer I Turned Pretty, which is based on the novel of the same name by Jenny Han. She made her Broadway debut as Eurydice in the Tony-winning musical Hadestown in 2024.
Tung was born and raised in New York City. Her mother is of Chinese and Swedish descent and her father is of Eastern European descent. Her maternal grandmother is from Sweden.
During middle school, she participated in productions of Little Shop of Horrors and The Wizard of Oz. She attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, from which she graduated in 2020. While in high school, she participated in a production of Rent with her extracurricular theater group.
In the fall of 2020, she began studying at the School of Drama of Carnegie Mellon University. After completing her first year of college, she took a break from her studies to film the first season of The Summer I Turned Pretty.
During her senior year of high school, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Tung performed in LaGuardia High School’s virtual senior acting showcase…
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