Trial underway for actress suing IMDB

We've been following this case with mild interest... Huong Hoang, aka Junie Hoang, is the Asian American actress suing the Internet Movie Database for posting her age on her public IMDB profile. She claims that the site violated her privacy by posting her age, which has led to a "substantial decrease in acting credits, employment opportunities and earnings."

I don't know if she's got much of a case, but the arguments are interesting. The Hollywood Reporter has been following the trial with recaps and analysis. Here's the take on day one, during which Hoang and IMDB battled over the importance of truth and perception in the digital age: Actress Suing IMDb Takes the Witness Stand.

And here's the recap of day two, where things got a little lively, and Hoang was challenged about how much IMDB's posting of her true age actually affected her acting career: Actress Suing IMDb Faces Tough Questions on Second Day of Trial.

Actress suing IMDb is calling nine other actors to testify

The latest news in the saga of Huong Hoang, aka Junie Hoang, the actress who is suing the Internet Movie Database for posting her age on her public IMDb profile...

Hoang is scheduled to bring her claims before a jury in a federal courtroom in Seattle beginning April 8... and she's not coming alone: Actress Suing IMDb Plans to Have Nine Other Actors Testify at Trial.

Hoang's lawyers reportedly want to bring nine other actors and actresses you've probably never heard of onto the witness stand to testify about their own efforts to get IMDb, an affiliate of Amazon.com, to remove birth dates. Hoang is not messing around:

and the asian american actress suing imdb is...

Remember the unnamed Asian American actress who was suing the Internet Movie Database for posting her age on her public IMDb profile? In an amended court filing, she has revealed her name: Huong Hoang, aka Junie Hoang: Actress Suing IMDB Reveals Her Real Name.

Junie Hoang, who you know and love from such recent classics as Gingerbread Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver and Hoodrats 2: Hoodrat Warriors, claims that IMDb violated her privacy by posting her age, which she says has led to a "substantial decrease in acting credits, employment opportunities and earnings."

asian american actress sues imdb for posting her age

Okay, so get this. An unnamed Asian actress has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com, which owns the Internet Movie Database, for posting her age on her public IMDb profile: Amazon sued in Seattle over revealing actress' age.

Jane Doe alleges that IMDb misused her personal information, posting her legal date of birth without her permission. And as an up-and-coming actress in a blatantly age-conscious industry, this makes roles harder to come by.

At the same time, the plaintiff claims that her apparent youthful looks -- she is Asian, after all -- make it harder to get convincingly cast in roles that call for an actual 40-year-old. She's suing for a million bucks: