Kieu Chinh

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1937-07-03 (88 years old)

Place of Birth

Hanoi, Vietnam

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...

Acting

1987

Hamburger Hill

as Mama San

2006

Journey From the Fall

as Ba Noi (Grandmother)

1989

Welcome Home

as Leang

2003

Tempted

as Kehau

1965

Operation C.I.A.

as Kim-Chinh

1977

The Hostage Heart

as Flor Aquino

1981

1990

Vietnam Texas

as Mallan

2012

1971

1981

The Other Victim

as Mrs. Troung

1997

Riot

as Mrs. Lee

1964

A Yank in Viet-Nam

as Kieu Chinh

1993

The Joy Luck Club

as Suyuan Wong

2000

What's Cooking?

as Grandma Nguyen

1978

The Lucifer Complex

as Major Chinn Lee

2014

Hollow

as Shaman Linh

1982

The Letter

as Chinese Woman

2025

Control Freak

as Aunt Thuy

1970

The Evil Within

as Kamar Souria

2002

Face

as Mrs. Liu

1989

Gleaming the Cube

as Madame Trac

2019

Finding Julia

as Van Tran

2019

In Full Bloom

as Cecile

1998

City of Angels

as Asian Woman

2001

1983

2008

21

as Chinese Woman

2024

My Eyes

as Mrs. Cheong

Production

2019

Finding Julia

as Writer

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