Kieu Chinh
Known for Acting · 54 credits
- Born
- 1937-07-03 (age 88)
- Place of birth
- Hanoi, Vietnam
- Also known as
- Nguyễn Thị Chinh · Kiều 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
TV Shows (11)
NCIS: Los Angeles
2009
as Kim Nguyen / Madge
ER
1994
as Mrs. Chen
Chicago Hope
1994
as Mrs. Mai Ying Wang
Touched by an Angel
1994
as Lang / Mrs. Kim
The Neighborhood
2018
as Tuyen
Cybill
1995
as Herbalist
Martial Law
1998
as Lin Sung Yuan
Promised Land
1996
as Mrs. Kim
Dope Thief
2025
as Xuan 'Grandma' Pham
Roots: The Next Generations
1979
as U.N. Receptionist
The Sympathizer
2024
as Crapulent Major's Mother
Movies (43)
21
2008
as Chinese Woman
City of Angels
1998
as Asian Woman
Hamburger Hill
1987
as Mama San
The Joy Luck Club
1993
as Suyuan Wong
Gleaming the Cube
1989
as Madame Trac
Control Freak
2025
as Aunt Thuy
Green Dragon
2001
as Kieu
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
1986
as Sai Luhn
Tempted
2003
as Kehau
Trade of Innocents
2012
as (voice)
Riot
1997
as Mrs. Lee
What's Cooking?
2000
as Grandma Nguyen
Welcome Home
1989
as Leang
21 and a Wake-Up
2009
as Mamason
The Letter
1982
as Chinese Woman
Hollow
2014
as Shaman Linh
The Other Victim
1981
as Mrs. Troung
Fly Away Home
1981
as Anh
Last Flight Out
1990
The Children of An Lac
1980
as Thuy
Cocaine: One Man's Seduction
1983
as Mrs. Marchais
Face
2002
as Mrs. Liu
The Girl Who Came Between Them
1990
as Thuy
My Husband Is Missing
1978
as Lu-An
The Lucifer Complex
1978
as Major Chinn Lee
The Hostage Heart
1977
as Flor Aquino
Operation C.I.A.
1965
as Kim-Chinh
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
1999
as Thanh
In Full Bloom
2019
as Cecile
Vietnam Texas
1990
as Mallan
The Girl Who Spelled Freedom
1986
as Phoen Yann
Journey From the Fall
2007
as Ba Noi (Grandmother)
Pearls of the Far East
2012
as Kieu
My Eyes
2024
as Mrs. Cheong
Finding Julia
2019
as Van Tran
A Yank in Viet-Nam
1964
as Kieu Chinh
The Shadow on the Roadside
1973
The Evil Within
1970
as Kamar Souria
From Saigon to Dien Bien Phu
1967
as Kiều Loan
Chrysalis
Warrior, Who Are You
1971
as Mỹ Lan
The Eyes I Used to Know
1964
Love Storm
1972
as Thủy
About Kieu Chinh
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… With 54 credits spanning from 1964 to 2025, Kieu Chinh has appeared in 43 films and 11 TV shows.
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Most Popular Kieu Chinh Movies
- 21 (2008) — as Chinese Woman
- City of Angels (1998) — as Asian Woman
- Hamburger Hill (1987) — as Mama San
- The Joy Luck Club (1993) — as Suyuan Wong
- Gleaming the Cube (1989) — as Madame Trac
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