Kieu Chinh
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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
Credits
City of Angels (1998)
as Asian Woman
21 (2008)
as Chinese Woman
Control Freak (2025)
as Aunt Thuy
Hamburger Hill (1987)
as Mama San
The Joy Luck Club (1993)
as Suyuan Wong
The 23rd Annual Unforgettable Awards (2026)
Actor
Chrysalis (2026)
Actor
Gleaming the Cube (1989)
as Madame Trac
21 and a Wake-Up (2009)
as Mamason
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1986)
as Sai Luhn
Hollow (2014)
as Shaman Linh
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999)
as Thanh
Trade of Innocents (2012)
as (voice)
The Girl Who Came Between Them (1990)
as Thuy
Cocaine: One Man's Seduction (1983)
as Mrs. Marchais
What's Cooking? (2000)
as Grandma Nguyen
My Husband Is Missing (1978)
as Lu-An
Operation C.I.A. (1965)
as Kim-Chinh
Green Dragon (2001)
as Kieu
Pearls of the Far East (2012)
as Kieu
Riot (1997)
as Mrs. Lee
The Children of An Lac (1980)
as Thuy
The Other Victim (1981)
as Mrs. Troung
Last Flight Out (1990)
Actor
Warrior, Who Are You (1971)
as Mỹ Lan
Face (2002)
as Mrs. Liu
Love Storm (1972)
as Thủy
Welcome Home (1989)
as Leang
The Lucifer Complex (1978)
as Major Chinn Lee
Fly Away Home (1981)
as Anh
Tempted (2003)
as Kehau
The Girl Who Spelled Freedom (1986)
as Phoen Yann
The Evil Within (1970)
as Kamar Souria
The Eyes I Used to Know (1964)
Actor
The Hostage Heart (1977)
as Flor Aquino
Just One Life (2024)
as Nadia
The Shadow on the Roadside (1973)
Actor
A Yank in Viet-Nam (1964)
as Kieu Chinh
The Letter (1982)
as Chinese Woman
Finding Julia (2019)
as Van Tran
Vietnam Texas (1990)
as Mallan
Journey from the Fall (2007)
as Ba Noi (Grandmother)
From Saigon to Dien Bien Phu (1967)
as Kiều Loan
In Full Bloom (2019)
as Cecile
My Eyes (2024)
as Mrs. Cheong