Hong Chau

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 appeared in the TV series Treme 20102013 and the film Inherent Vice 2014 She went on to have supporting roles in the HBO limited series Watchmen 2019 and the Prime Video series Homecoming 20182020 Chau has also played leading roles in the 2019 films Driveways and American Woman and further supporting roles in the 2022 film The Menu and the 2023 Netflix series The Night Agent Description above from the Wikipedia article Hong Chau licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia