American comedian Margaret Cho was BOTD in 1968. Born in San Francisco, California to Korean immigrant parents, she was raised in a racially diverse neighbourhood she later described as “old hippies, ex-druggies, burn-outs from the 1960s, drag queens, Chinese people and Koreans.” She studied at the San Francisco School of the Performing Arts, supporting herself by working as a dominatrix. She launched a stand-up comedy career, appearing in the unsuccessful Golden Girls spinoff sitcom The Golden Palace and The Arsenio Hall Show before finding success in the sitcom All-American Girl. After the show’s cancellation, she became a drug addict. Her sobriety and eventual recovery was the subject of her successful one-woman show I’m the One That I Want, which brought her to a wider audience. Her comedy routines combine confessional material about her history of drug addiction, eating disorders and childhood sexual abuse with commentary on racism, LGBTQ issues and her loathing of political conservatives, notably US President George W. Bush who became a regular target of her critiques during the 2000s. Her eclectic career has included guest appearances in TV series Sex and the City and 30 Rock, a series of musical recordings, a bellydancing clothing outlet called Hip Wear and a podcast. Cho identifies variously as bisexual and pansexual, and was in high profile relationships with singer Chris Isaak and filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. She married artist Al Ridenour in 2003, announcing their separation in 2015. Her current relationship status is unknown.