Lauren Tom is an American actress, voice actress, and comedian. Her roles include Julie in the NBC sitcom Friends, Dot in the final season of Grace Under Fire, and the voices for both mother and daughter characters in three animated TV comedy series: in Futurama, she voiced Amy Wong and her mother, Inez, in King of the Hill, she voiced Minh and Connie Souphanousinphone, and finally, she voiced Numbuh 3 and her mother, Genki, in the Cartoon Network animated series Codename: Kids Next Door.
Early life[]
Tom was born in the Chicago suburb Highland Park, Illinois, on August 4, 1961, the daughter of Nancy (née Dare) and Chan Tom, Jr. She has a brother, Chip. Her parents were born in Chicago, and their grandparents came from Kaiping, Guangdong, China. She was raised in a largely Jewish neighborhood.