Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 25, 1979
Place of Birth
Thailand
Credits
34 titles
Hong Chau
Biography
Hong Chau (born June 25, 1979) is an American actress. She has received several award nominations for her film roles as Ngoc Lan Tran in Downsizing (2017) and as Liz, a nurse, in The Whale (2022), including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter. Chau was born to Vietnamese parents who lived in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing Vietnam in the late 1970s. A Vietnamese Catholic church in New Orleans sponsored Chau and her family to move to the United States. She grew up in New Orleans and majored in film studies at Boston University College of Communication before pursuing an acting career. She appeared in the TV series Treme (2010–2013) and the film Inherent Vice (2014). She went on to have supporting roles in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019) and the Prime Video series Homecoming (2018–2020). Chau has also played leading roles in the 2019 films Driveways and American Woman and further supporting roles in the 2022 film The Menu and the 2023 Netflix series The Night Agent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hong Chau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Sheep Detectives
Beth Pennock
"Wuthering Heights"
Nelly
The Instigators
Dr. Donna Rivera
Kinds of Kindness
Sarah / Sharon / Aka
Asteroid City
Polly
Showing Up
Jo
The Night Agent
Diane Farr
Poker Face
Marge
The Whale
Liz
The Menu
Elsa
Driveways
Kathy
Artemis Fowl
Opal Koboi (uncredited)
Watchmen
Lady Trieu
American Woman
Jenny
Homecoming
Audrey Temple
Forever
Sarah
Duck Butter
Glow
Downsizing
Ngoc Lan Tran
Big Little Lies
Jackie
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Inherent Vice
Jade
A to Z
Lora
BoJack Horseman
Pickles Aplenty (voice)
Market Hours
Angela
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
$#*! My Dad Says
DJ
Treme
Linh
Good Luck Charlie
Theresa
The Sarah Silverman Program.
Asian Masseuse
How I Met Your Mother
Cook Pu
American Dad!
Korean Spy (voice)
NCIS
FBI Lab Tech Molly Choi
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Julie Blanch