Kieu Chinh

Kieu Chinh born September 3rd 1937 is a VietnameseAmerican 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 Hawkeyes South Korean love interest in the TV show MASH 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 ABCs Vietnam war series China Beach from 1989 to 1991 and the Fox TV show 21 in 2008 But her bestknown role is that of Suyuan Woo in Wayne Wangs The Joy Luck Club in 1993 a film about the relationship between Chinese immigrant mothers and their ChineseAmerican mothers Amongst the accolades that Chinh has received in her sixdecade career are the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Vietnamese International Film Festival in 2003 the Special Acting Award at the Womens 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