Lauren Tsai
Lauren Tsai is an American illustrator, model and actress. She is best known to Western audiences for her appearance in the Fuji TV and Netflix series . She made her acting debut in the third and final season of Legion, a television series based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.
Biography
Lauren Tsai was born on February 11, 1998 in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States to a Chinese-American father and a European-American mother and has two older sisters. Tsai is a niece of Ming Tsai. Tsai's family moved to Honolulu, Hawaii when she was seven years old. Then she went back to Massachusetts for a year for boarding school. She visited Japan for the first time at eleven years old and returned to study in Hiroshima for six weeks while a sophomore when she was studying at Pacific Buddhist Academy.In 2014, she began modeling in Japan under the name "Lala." In November 2016, she auditioned for Terrace House.
After moving out of the show's Honolulu house, she continued to pursue her modeling and artistic work. As a model, she's since appeared in a number of magazines, commercials, catalogs and fashion shows, including in Japan and Hawaii.
In 2018, she drew a variant cover for issue No. 1 of West Coast Avengers. In 2019, she followed with a variant cover for Captain Marvel No. 1. She also collaborated with Marc Jacobs on a line of apparel and accessories.
In January 2019, she was cast in the third and final season of the FX series Legion as Switch, a young mutant who has time travelling abilities. She will next star in Moxie, directed by Amy Poehler for Netflix. Tsai is represented by WME.
Personal life
Tsai is vegan.Artistry
Influences
Tsai is inspired by animated films, fantasy, surrealism and music.Works
| Title | Year | Notes |
| Captain Marvel #1 | 2019 | Variant Cover. |
| Nike Collaborations | 2019 | Air Force 1 and Nike Air Max. |
| West Coast Avengers #1 | 2019 | Variant Cover. |
| Brooklyn Mural #1 | 2019 | Mural for Mortal Kombat. |
| Revlon JP | 2019 | |
| Be@RBRICK Series 38 | 2019 | |
| "It's All For You" | 2018 | 200-page hardbound book of original drawings. |
| LAUREN TSAI X MARC JACOBS | 2017 | Featured as designer and illustrator. |
| Starbucks Collaboration | 2017 | Starbucks Harajuku B-Side |
| "Gateway to Fantasy" | 2017 | Art installation at Lucua Department Store in Osaka |
| "It's All Over" | 2017 | At Sezon Art Gallery in Omotesando. |
| “18” | 2017 | Illustration gallery at ARS Cafe |