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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 25, 1979
Place of Birth
Thailand
Also Known As
- هونگ چائو
Hong Chau
1.1 Popularity
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
Credits
The Sheep Detectives
as Beth Pennock
2026
0.0
"Wuthering Heights"
as Nelly Dean
2026
0.0
The Instigators
as Dr. Donna Rivera
2024
6.2
Kinds of Kindness
as Sarah / Sharon / Aka
2024
6.5
Asteroid City
as Polly
2023
6.4
Showing Up
as Jo
2023
5.8
The Night Agent
as Diane Farr
2023
7.7
Poker Face
as Marge
2023
7.5
The Whale
as Liz
2022
7.8
The Menu
as Elsa
2022
7.2
Driveways
as Kathy
2020
6.9
Artemis Fowl
as Opal Koboi (uncredited)
2020
5.5
Watchmen
as Lady Trieu
2019
7.6
American Woman
as Jenny
2019
4.9
Homecoming
as Audrey Temple
2018
7.0
Forever
as Sarah
2018
6.3
Duck Butter
as Glow
2018
5.4
Downsizing
as Ngoc Lan Tran
2017
5.4
Big Little Lies
as Jackie
2017
7.9
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
2015
5.3
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
Inherent Vice
as Jade
2014
6.5
A to Z
as Lora
2014
6.5
BoJack Horseman
as Pickles Aplenty (voice)
2014
8.5
Market Hours
as Angela
2014
0.0
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
$#*! My Dad Says
as DJ
2010
6.1
Treme
as Linh
2010
7.6
Good Luck Charlie
as Theresa
2010
7.9
The Sarah Silverman Program.
as Asian Masseuse
2007
6.3
How I Met Your Mother
as Cook Pu
2005
8.1
American Dad!
as Korean Spy (voice)
2005
7.0
NCIS
as FBI Lab Tech Molly Choi
2003
7.6
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Julie Blanch
2000
7.6