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Lola Tung (born October 28, 2002) is an American actress and model. She is known for her role as Isabel "Belly" Susannah Conklin in the Amazon Prime Video series The Summer I Turned Pretty, based on the novel of the same name by Jenny Han.[1]

Early life and education Lola Tung was raised in New York City and graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in 2020.[2][3] Her mother is of Chinese and Swedish descent and her father is of Eastern European descent.[4][5] Her maternal grandmother is from Sweden.[6]
In fall 2020, she began studying at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama as an acting major,[7][8] where she participated in school plays.[9] She completed her first year of college and then took a year off to film The Summer I Turned Pretty.[10]
Tung plays guitar and sings.[11]
Career
In her senior year of high school, Tung acted in LaGuardia's virtual senior acting showcase, where her current manager saw her first perform. Months later, during the second semester of Tung's first year at Carnegie Mellon University, the manager reached out to her to begin working together and with an audition.[12] The audition was for the main role of Isabel "Belly" Conklin in The Summer I Turned Pretty, Amazon Prime's television adaptation of Jenny Han's bestselling trilogy.[12] While taking remote college classes, Tung auditioned for the series on Zoom. She later landed the job, which is her first credited acting role.[8][13][14][15] Before the first season's release, Amazon Prime renewed the series for a second season, which was filmed in summer 2022.[10]
In September 2021, shortly after landing the leading role in The Summer I Turned Pretty, Tung signed with American talent agency, Creative Artists Agency.[16]