<P> Song made her transition into mainstream movies in 2010 when she appeared in the critically acclaimed film The Social Network . She also starred in the short indie film First Kiss . In 2012 and 2013, she had recurring roles in Scandal and New Girl . In 2013--2014, she starred in the Fox TV series Dads . In October 2014, Song signed a talent holding deal with Fox and 20th Century Fox Television to star in a television project . Since then, Song has been cast in several television pilots for NBC and CBS . She also starred in the CBS drama Pure Genius . In 2017, Song was cast in two new movies: She will play Pen in Changeland; and Allison Pyke in Angry Angel . Song was cast in 2018 in the TV series Station 19 for a multi-episode arc . </P> <P> Brenda Song was born in Carmichael, California, a suburb of Sacramento, to a Hmong family . Her paternal grandparents were from the Xiong clan (熊), but changed their last name to Song when the family immigrated to the United States . Her parents were born in Thailand and met as adults in Sacramento . Her father works as a schoolteacher and her mother is a homemaker . She has two younger brothers, Timmy and Nathan . </P> <P> When she was six years old, Song moved with her mother to Los Angeles, California, to support her acting career; the rest of the family followed two years later . As a young girl, Song wanted to do ballet, while her younger brother wanted to take taekwondo . She said, "My mom only wanted to take us to one place," so they settled on taekwondo . Although Song cried all the way through her first class, she now holds a black belt in taekwondo . Song was named an All - American Scholar in the ninth grade . She was homeschooled and earned a high school diploma at age 16, then took courses at a community college and online from the University of California, Berkeley, with a major in psychology and a minor in business . </P> <P> Song started in show business as a child fashion model in San Francisco after being spotted in a shopping mall by an agent from a modeling school . She began acting at the age of five or six in a Little Caesars commercial, and then a Barbie commercial . Her first film role was in the 1995 Requiem, an AFI student short film by actress Elizabeth Sung . "She came in confident (at the auditions). She was very focused, and it was very obvious that she loved what she was doing," said Sung . The film is about a waitress / dancer named Fong who remembers her loving brother and their bittersweet childhood in Hong Kong . The seven - year - old Song played a young version of "Fong", who is portrayed as an adult by Tamlyn Tomita . The film won a CINE Golden Eagle award . She appeared in another short film directed by Elizabeth Sung called The White Fox . </P>

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