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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 3, 1937
Place of Birth
Hanoi, Vietnam
Also Known As
- Nguyễn Thị Chinh
- Kiều Chinh
Kieu Chinh
0.6 Popularity
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
6.6
Xuan 'Grandma' Pham
Dope Thief
2025
5.5
Aunt Thuy
Control Freak
2025
0.0
Mrs. Cheong
My Eyes
2024
7.0
Crapulent Major's Mother
The Sympathizer
2024
0.0
Van Tran
Finding Julia
2019
6.4
Cecile
In Full Bloom
2019
7.6
Tuyen
The Neighborhood
2018
6.7
Shaman Linh
Hollow
2014
5.2
(voice)
Trade of Innocents
2012
0.0
Kieu
Pearls of the Far East
2012
Credits
Dope Thief
as Xuan 'Grandma' Pham
2025
6.6
Control Freak
as Aunt Thuy
2025
5.5
My Eyes
as Mrs. Cheong
2024
0.0
The Sympathizer
as Crapulent Major's Mother
2024
7.0
Finding Julia
as Van Tran
2019
0.0
In Full Bloom
as Cecile
2019
6.4
The Neighborhood
as Tuyen
2018
7.6
Hollow
as Shaman Linh
2014
6.7
Trade of Innocents
as (voice)
2012
5.2
Pearls of the Far East
as Kieu
2012
0.0
21 and a Wake-Up
as Mamason
2009
2.0
NCIS: Los Angeles
as Kim Nguyen
2009
7.5
NCIS: Los Angeles
as Madge
2009
7.5
21
as Chinese Woman
2008
6.7
Journey From the Fall
as Ba Noi (Grandmother)
2007
6.1
Tempted
as Kehau
2003
5.8
Face
as Mrs. Liu
2002
4.0
Green Dragon
as Kieu
2001
6.0
What's Cooking?
as Grandma Nguyen
2000
5.5
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
as Thanh
1999
5.0
City of Angels
as Asian Woman
1998
6.8
Riot
as Mrs. Lee
1997
5.0
Promised Land
as Mrs. Kim
1996
6.1
Cybill
as Herbalist
1995
5.8
Touched by an Angel
as Lang
1994
7.2
Touched by an Angel
as Mrs. Kim
1994
7.2
ER
as Mrs. Chen
1994
7.8
Chicago Hope
as Mrs. Mai Ying Wang
1994
7.2
The Joy Luck Club
as Suyuan Wong
1993
7.1
Vietnam Texas
as Mallan
1990
5.0
Welcome Home
as Leang
1989
5.6
Gleaming the Cube
as Madame Trac
1989
6.0
Hamburger Hill
as Mama San
1987
6.5
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
as Sai Luhn
1986
6.2
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The Girl Who Spelled Freedom
as Phoen Yann
1986
7.3
Cocaine: One Man's Seduction
as Mrs. Marchais
1983
6.6
The Letter
as Chinese Woman
1982
3.5
The Other Victim
as Mrs. Troung
1981
0.0
Fly Away Home
as Anh
1981
4.7
The Children of An Lac
as Thuy
1980
6.0
Roots: The Next Generations
as U.N. Receptionist
1979
7.5
My Husband Is Missing
as Lu-An
1978
6.0
The Lucifer Complex
as Major Chinn Lee
1978
2.6
The Hostage Heart
as Flor Aquino
1977
0.0
The Shadow on the Roadside
1973
1.0
🎬
Warrior, Who Are You
as Mỹ Lan
1971
0.0
The Evil Within
as Kamar Souria
1970
0.0
From Saigon to Dien Bien Phu
as Kiều Loan
1967
0.0
Operation C.I.A.
as Kim-Chinh
1965
5.0
A Yank in Viet-Nam
as Kieu Chinh
1964
0.0
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Chrysalis
N/A
0.0