Writing

Loung Ung

Born November 19, 1970 · Phnom Penh, Cambodia (age 55)

Loung Ung is an author, activist, and co-screenplay writer of the critically acclaimed 2017 Netflix Original Movie, First They Killed My Father, which is based on her memoir and directed by Angelina Jolie. Born in 1970 in Phnom Penh, Loung was just five years old when Khmer Rouge soldiers forcibly evacuated her family from their home during a mass exodus. By 1978, the regime had taken the lives o…