Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1979-06-25 (46 years old)
Place of Birth
Thailand
Also known As
هونگ چائو
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 app...
2024
as Dr. Donna Rivera
2023
as Polly
2014
as Jade
2024
as Sarah / Sharon / Aka
2026
as Beth Pennock
2017
as Ngoc Lan Tran
2018
as Glow
2020
as Opal Koboi (uncredited)
2020
as Kathy
2019
as Jenny
2014
as Angela
2022
as Liz
2023
as Jo
2022
as Elsa
2026
as Nelly Dean
2019
as Executive Producer
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