Kieu Chinh
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 3, 1937 (age 89)
- Birthplace
- Hanoi, Vietnam
Biography
Kieu Chinh (born September 3rd, 1937) is a Vietnamese-American actress, producer, humanitarian, lecturer and philanthropist. One of the most prominent film stars in South Vietnam during the 60s and 70s, she immigrated to America after 1975 and eventually settled in California where she resumed acting with the help of Tippi Hedron; her first credit in America was as Hawkeye’s South Korean love interest in the TV show M*A*S*H. Subsequently, Kieu Chinh appeared in 45 feature films and television shows, among them the TV movies The Children of An Lac (1980), The Letter (1982) and The Girl Who Spelled Freedom (1986), and films like Hamburger Hill (1987), Gleaming the Cube (1988), Riot (1997) and Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999). She also landed a recurring role on ABC’s Vietnam war series China Beach from 1989 to 1991 and the Fox TV show 21 in 2008. But her best-known role is that of Suyuan Woo in Wayne Wang’s The Joy Luck Club in 1993, a film about the relationship between Chinese immigrant mothers and their Chinese-American mothers. Amongst the accolades that Chinh has received in her six-decade career are the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Vietnamese International Film Festival in 2003, the Special Acting Award at the Women’s Film Festival in Turin in 2003, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the San Diego Asian Film Festival and the San Francisco Film Fest in 2006 and 2015, respectively. In 2009, Chinh was honored as the Woman of the Year for her work in film and community service by California Representative Lou Correa.
Known For
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Filmography
Chrysalis
Movie
The 23rd Annual Unforgettable Awards
Movie
Control Freak
Movie · as Aunt Thuy
Dope Thief
TV · as Xuan 'Grandma' Pham · 5 eps
Vietnam: The Birth of a Nation
TV · as Self · 4 eps
My Eyes
Movie · as Mrs. Cheong
Just One Life
Movie · as Nadia
The Sympathizer
TV · as Crapulent Major's Mother · 7 eps
Finding Julia
Movie · as Van Tran
In Full Bloom
Movie · as Cecile
The Neighborhood
TV · as Tuyen · 1 ep
Hollow
Movie · as Shaman Linh
Trade of Innocents
Movie · as (voice)
Pearls of the Far East
Movie · as Kieu
21 and a Wake-Up
Movie · as Mamason
NCIS: Los Angeles
TV · as Kim Nguyen, Madge · 1 ep
21
Movie · as Chinese Woman
Journey from the Fall
Movie · as Ba Noi (Grandmother)
Tempted
Movie · as Kehau
Face
Movie · as Mrs. Liu
Green Dragon
Movie · as Kieu
What's Cooking?
Movie · as Grandma Nguyen
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
Movie · as Thanh
City of Angels
Movie · as Asian Woman
Martial Law
TV · as Lin Sung Yuan · 1 ep
Riot
Movie · as Mrs. Lee
Promised Land
TV · as Mrs. Kim · 1 ep
Cybill
TV · as Herbalist · 1 ep
ER
TV · as Mrs. Chen · 1 ep
Touched by an Angel
TV · as Lang, Mrs. Kim · 1 ep
Chicago Hope
TV · as Mrs. Mai Ying Wang · 1 ep
The Joy Luck Club
Movie · as Suyuan Wong
Vietnam Texas
Movie · as Mallan
The Girl Who Came Between Them
Movie · as Thuy
Last Flight Out
Movie
Welcome Home
Movie · as Leang
Gleaming the Cube
Movie · as Madame Trac
Hamburger Hill
Movie · as Mama San
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Movie · as Sai Luhn
The Girl Who Spelled Freedom
Movie · as Phoen Yann
Cocaine: One Man's Seduction
Movie · as Mrs. Marchais
The Letter
Movie · as Chinese Woman
Fly Away Home
Movie · as Anh
The Other Victim
Movie · as Mrs. Troung
The Children of An Lac
Movie · as Thuy
Roots: The Next Generations
TV · as U.N. Receptionist · 1 ep
My Husband Is Missing
Movie · as Lu-An
The Lucifer Complex
Movie · as Major Chinn Lee
The Hostage Heart
Movie · as Flor Aquino
The Shadow on the Roadside
Movie
Love Storm
Movie · as Thủy
Warrior, Who Are You
Movie · as Mỹ Lan
The Evil Within
Movie · as Kamar Souria
From Saigon to Dien Bien Phu
Movie · as Kiều Loan
Operation C.I.A.
Movie · as Kim-Chinh
A Yank in Viet-Nam
Movie · as Kieu Chinh
The Eyes I Used to Know
Movie