in journalism with a minor in Japanese and dramatic arts. Munn attended Putnam City North High School for her junior and senior years, then attended the University of Oklahoma, where she earned a B.A. When Munn was 16, her mother divorced her stepfather and moved with the children back to Oklahoma City. "And that would take their minds off of the hell that was happening down the hall." "When would be screaming his head off in the living room, I would hustle everybody into my room and launch into imitations of teachers or do scenes from movies," she recalled. She has said that her stepfather was "verbally abusive" and demeaning. Munn's stepfather was then transferred to Yokota Air Base near Tachikawa in Tokyo, Japan, where she spent her formative years. The family relocated to Utah, where they resided until 1986.
When Munn was two years old, her parents divorced and her mother married a member of the United States Air Force. Munn has a younger brother, John, a physicist an older brother, James, a custom motorcycle shop owner and two older sisters, Annie and Sara, the latter of whom is a lawyer. Her mother, who is a Vietnamese woman of Chinese ancestry, arrived as a refugee in the United States in 1975 following the Vietnam War and settled in Oklahoma, where she met Munn's father. Her father is of German, Irish, and English ancestry. Munn was born on July 3, 1980, in Oklahoma City to Kimberly Schmid and Winston Munn. In 2018, she had a leading role in the science fiction film The Predator, the fourth film in the Predator franchise.
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In 2017, she provided the voice of Koko in The Lego Ninjago Movie, and had appeared in the History Channel series Six (2017). She starred in the supernatural horror film Deliver Us from Evil (2014), the comedy Mortdecai (2015), and X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) as Psylocke. Munn's other acting roles include a recurring role on the television series Beyond the Break (2006-2009) and supporting roles in comedy films Big Stan (2007) and Date Night (2010), superhero film Iron Man 2 (2010), and Steven Soderbergh's comedy-drama Magic Mike (2012). She is known for her three-season-long portrayal of Sloan Sabbith in Aaron Sorkin's HBO political drama series The Newsroom (2012–2014). She appeared as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 2010 to 2011.
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After an internship at a news station in Tulsa, she moved to Los Angeles where she began her professional career as a television host for the gaming network G4, primarily on the series Attack of the Show! from 2006 until 2010. Lisa Olivia Munn (born July 3, 1980) is an American actress and former television host.
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