MOMOLAND'S Nancy (낸시) Visual, Center, Maknae

Nancy Jewel Mcdonie

About

Nancy is a South Korean-American singer and actress under ATOC. She is the maknae of the girl group MOMOLAND and former member of the project girl group Sunny Girls.

Profiles

Full name: Nancy Jewel McDonie / Lee Groo

Korean Name: 이그루 / 낸시 주얼 맥다니

Chinese Name: 李周洹

Stage Name: Nancy

Nickname: Baby Nancy, Jonancy, Nanny, Nanty, Baby Groo

Birthplace: Chilgok District, Daegu, South Korea

Nationality: Korean-American

Birthdate: April 13, 2000

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Chinese Zodiac: Dragon

Position: Center, lead vocal, lead dancer

Occupation: Singer, idol

Blood Type: O

Weight: 46 kg

Height: 162 cm

Foot size: 220 mm

MBTI: ENFJ

Hobbies: Watch movies, watch beauty broadcast

Specialty: English conversation, dance

Motto: If you have a chance, don’t miss it

Family: Parents, 1 older sister

Debut date: November 10

Debut year: 2016

Education

Daegu Wolbae Elementary School -> Yongin Hyoja Elementary School

Yongin Seongseo Middle School

Hanlim Entertainment Arts High School

Sungshin Women’s University (Media and Visual Acting)

Group debut

November 10, 2016 (MOMOLAND)

November 27, 2016 (Sunny Girls)

Agency

ATOC (2023–present)

Sparkle (Philippines; 2024–present)

Aria Group (2023)

MLD Entertainment (2016–2023)

Nega Network (former; trainee)

Associations

MOMOLAND

Sunny Girls

Finding Momoland

SNS

Instagram: @nancyjewel_mcdonie_

X: @nancy__jewel

Youtube: @nancy__jewel

Funfacts & Trivia

English name/ Korean name

Nancy is one of the Momoland members that made their MLD Entertainment debut in November 2016. Nancy McDonie chose her English name as her stage name. She has a Korean name because she is half Korean. It was Lee Seungri, but she legally changed it to Lee Geu-roo in 2019.

Training

She had to train for a lot of years before making her debut as an idol. Nancy joined the company that was later on debuting her in Momoland, Duble Kick Entertainment.

Finding Momoland

There, she joined the survival program that was forming a new girl group of Duble Kick Entertainment. The program was called “Finding Momoland”. It was airing from July 22 until September 26, 2016. Let’s see the clip of Nancy’s performance in “Finding Momoland”!

“Jjan! Koong! Kwang!”

At the end of the episode of “Finding Momoland”, it was revealed that Nancy was included as a part of Momoland along with Ahin, Jane, JooE, Yeonwoo, Nayun, and Hyebin. They released their first single called “Jjan! Koong! Kwang!” on November 10, 2016.

Family

As you already know, Nancy was born and raised in Chilgok district in Daegu. She has an older sister named Brenda, who was two years older than her. Nancy’s father, Richard McDonie is an American of Irish descent who worked as a professor at Gachon University.

Her mother, Lee Myeong-ju

Her mother, Lee Myeong-ju, is a full Korean originally from Yongin, Gyeonggi-do. Nancy’s mother ran a cafe in Daemyeong-dong, Nam-gu, Daegu. When Nancy’s sister on vacation, she helped their mother and worked there. Nancy also visited the cafe often when she had a chance.

Lived in Ohio, United States

Nancy was born on April 13, 2000, in Daegu. However, when Nancy was a child, she has lived in Ohio, United States, for around 6 years. When she was 7 years old, Nancy and her family moved back to South Korea, and Nancy started her education in an elementary school in Daegu. That’s why Nancy was fluent in Korean more than English.

Korea’s Got Talent

When Nancy was 9 years old in an international age, or 10 years old in Korean age, she debuted in musical drama. Fast forward to 2011. Nancy joined a competition called Korea’s Got Talent and passed the semi-final stages with her team. Since then, Nancy was recruited to be a trainee. She joined a company called Nega Network. During that time, Nancy has appeared in a lot of programs and even visited the Philippines too.

Nancy, Ahin, and Daisy

If Nancy, Ahin, and Daisy are together, they talk in English.

Nancy said that she’s better with her Korean instead of English because she grew up in Korea. Daisy also said that Nancy preferred Korean instead of English.

Body Figure

As an idol, Nancy wanted to be commented about her dancing skills or singing skills instead of her body figure.

Lee Seungri

Nancy’s previous Korean name was Lee Seungri, and she changed the name around the time where the former member of BIGBANG, Seungri’s Burning Sun case.

Her favorite

Her old favorite color was burgundy, but now it’s blue. (FB live)

She loves food with cheese and the chocolate mint flavor.

Nancy collects elephant dolls.

Her favorite phrase is: “do not lose the opportunities you receive.”

She can blink fast and blink both eyes fast, she is the wink fairy of the group.

Resemble

People often said that Nancy’s face resembles Liza Soberano, a Philippines actress.

Ideal type

Nancy’s ideal type: Someone with lot of dignity and someone with goals.

Photos & Videos leaked

At the beginning of 2021, there was bad news coming through Nancy. In January 2021, her photo of her undressing was leaked. She became a victim of a spy camera or filming someone without consent when she was changing in a dressing room. The action was taken in 2019 when Momoland attended Asia Artists Awards, which was held in Vietnam.

People are speculating that it could be the staff that filmed it. Since the filming was inside the dressing room, no one should enter besides the staff, artists, or stylist. But MLD Entertainment handled this situation by giving this case to the police of Gyeonggi province.