Kieu Chinh

Kieu Chinh
Born	Kieu Chinh 1937 (age 79–80) Hanoi, Vietnam
Residence	Huntington Beach, California, United States
Citizenship	United States
Occupation	Actress, Producer, Spokesperson, Lecturer, Philanthropist, Humanitarian
Known for	The Joy Luck Club
Spouse(s)	Nguyễn Năng Tế (1955–1981) 3 children, 4 grandchildren

Kiều Chinh (born Nguyễn Thị Chinh; 1937) is a Vietnamese American actress best known for her role in The Joy Luck Club. She currently lives in Huntington Beach, California.

Kieu Chinh began her acting career in her South Vietnam, starting with a starring role in Hồi Chuông Thiên Mụ (The Bells of Thiên Mụ Temple) (1957). Kieu Chinh soon became one of South Vietnam's best-known personalities.

In the 1960s, in addition to Vietnamese films, she also appeared in several American productions including A Yank in Viet-Nam (1964) and Operation C.I.A. (1965), the latter opposite Burt Reynolds. Kieu Chinh also produced a war epic Người Tình Không Chân Dung (Warrior, Who Are You) (1971), which later would be remastered and shown in the U.S. at the 2003 Vietnamese International Film Festival.

In 1975, while Kieu Chinh was on the set in Singapore, communist North Vietnamese overran Saigon. Kieu Chinh left for the U.S. where she resumed her acting career in a 1977 episode of M*A*S*H "In Love and War", written by Alan Alda and loosely based on her life story.

Kieu Chinh subsequently acted in feature films as well as TV-movies including The Children of An Lac (TV), Hamburger Hill (1987), Riot (1997), Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999), Face (2002), Journey From The Fall (2005), 21 (2008).

From 1989 to 1991, she had a recurring role as Triệu Âu on the ABC Vietnam War drama series China Beach.

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