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Actress Suing IMDB Reveals Her Name

It's Junie Hoang, who's been in small-budget flicks

By John Johnson, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 6, 2012 4:02 PM CST | Updated Jan 8, 2012 11:38 AM CST

(Newser) – Remember the anonymous actress suing IMDB for revealing that her age is 40? She is anonymous no more, notes the Hollywood Reporter. It's Huong Hoang, who mostly goes by the stage name of Junie Hoang. Never heard of her? She has been working fairly regularly, but in small-budget movies such as Gingerbread Man 3 and Hoodrats 2. Hoang, who is suing the movie database for $1 million because she says it made her vulnerable to Hollywood age discrimination, had to reveal her name for the suit to go forward. Her IMDB profile is here.

Junie Hoang is the actress suing IMDB. (Facebook)

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