May Hong

Hong was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to the United States at age six.^[1] She was raised in Flushing, Queens, New York.^[5] Hong attended high school at Fiorello LaGuardia High School, where she studied art and cultivated an interest in printmaking.^[1] She received her bachelor of fine arts degree in printmaking from RISD in 2010.^[6]

Hong moved to Brooklyn after graduation and managed a photography studio.^[1] Her modeling career began when her friends Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta asked her to model for their fledgling brand in 2011.^[1] She continued modeling and eventually began to do commercials.^[1] She has modeled for designers including Adidas, Marni, Gucci, Telfar, and Marc Jacobs.^[7][8][9][5] She has also walked New York Fashion Week.^[10] Hong has walked in every Eckhaus Latta runway show.^[11]

She has acted in the television shows Broad City, High Maintenance, New Amsterdam, and Hacks, and the film Adam.^[12] Her first lead acting role was in the Netflix revival series Tales of the City (2019) as Margot Park.^[12] She voiced the character Mira in the Netflix animated film KPop Demon Hunters (2025).^[13] The film became Netflix's most watched animated movie of all time by July 2025, and eventually Netflix's most-watched film ever at 236 million views by August, surpassing Red Notice (2021).^[14]

Hong resides in Brooklyn, and has identified as queer.^[11][15]