Kieu Chinh
Acting
Born 1937-07-03
Hanoi, Vietnam
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
50 credits
NCIS: Los Angeles
Chicago Hope
ER
Roots: The Next Generations
Touched by an Angel
The Neighborhood
Martial Law
Cybill
Dope Thief
The Sympathizer
Control Freak
Promised Land
21
City of Angels
Hollow
Hamburger Hill
Love Storm
The Joy Luck Club
Warrior, Who Are You
Gleaming the Cube
Face
Green Dragon
Trade of Innocents
What's Cooking?
Tempted
In Full Bloom
Pearls of the Far East
Welcome Home
Operation C.I.A.
Riot
Fly Away Home
The Hostage Heart
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
The Children of An Lac
The Other Victim
Cocaine: One Man's Seduction
Finding Julia
The Letter
21 and a Wake-Up
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
The Lucifer Complex
Vietnam Texas
My Eyes
The Evil Within
From Saigon to Dien Bien Phu
The Girl Who Came Between Them
My Husband Is Missing
Journey From the Fall
The Girl Who Spelled Freedom
A Yank in Viet-Nam
Other credits
4 credits
Writing
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