Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 03, 1937
Place of Birth
Hanoi, Vietnam
Credits
54 titles
Kieu Chinh
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
Filmography
Dope Thief
Xuan 'Grandma' Pham
Control Freak
Aunt Thuy
My Eyes
Mrs. Cheong
The Sympathizer
Crapulent Major's Mother
Finding Julia
Van Tran
In Full Bloom
Cecile
The Neighborhood
Tuyen
Hollow
Shaman Linh
Trade of Innocents
(voice)
Pearls of the Far East
Kieu
21 and a Wake-Up
Mamason
NCIS: Los Angeles
Kim Nguyen
21
Chinese Woman
Journey From the Fall
Ba Noi (Grandmother)
Tempted
Kehau
Face
Mrs. Liu
Green Dragon
Kieu
What's Cooking?
Grandma Nguyen
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
Thanh
Martial Law
Lin Sung Yuan
City of Angels
Asian Woman
Riot
Mrs. Lee
Promised Land
Mrs. Kim
Cybill
Herbalist
Touched by an Angel
Lang
ER
Mrs. Chen
Chicago Hope
Mrs. Mai Ying Wang
The Joy Luck Club
Suyuan Wong
Last Flight Out
The Girl Who Came Between Them
Thuy
Vietnam Texas
Mallan
Welcome Home
Leang
Gleaming the Cube
Madame Trac
Hamburger Hill
Mama San
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Sai Luhn
The Girl Who Spelled Freedom
Phoen Yann
Cocaine: One Man's Seduction
Mrs. Marchais
The Letter
Chinese Woman
The Other Victim
Mrs. Troung
Fly Away Home
Anh
The Children of An Lac
Thuy
Roots: The Next Generations
U.N. Receptionist
My Husband Is Missing
Lu-An
The Lucifer Complex
Major Chinn Lee
The Hostage Heart
Flor Aquino
The Shadow on the Roadside
Love Storm
Thủy
Warrior, Who Are You
Mỹ Lan
The Evil Within
Kamar Souria
From Saigon to Dien Bien Phu
Kiều Loan