Hong Chau
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1979-06-25 (45 years old)
Place of Birth Thailand
Also Known As هونگ چائو
Hong Chau
Biography
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 (2010–2013) 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 (2018–2020). 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 CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as Nelly Dean
as Dr. Donna Rivera
as Sarah / Sharon / Aka
as Polly
as Jo
as Diane Farr
as Marge
as Liz
as Elsa
as Kathy
as Opal Koboi (uncredited)
as Jenny
as Lady Trieu
as Sarah
as Glow
as Audrey Temple
as Sarah
as Ngoc Lan Tran
as Jackie
as Self - Guest
as Jade
as Angela
as Self
as Lora
as Pickles Aplenty (voice)
as Self
as DJ
as Theresa
as Asian Masseuse
as Cook Pu
as Korean Spy (voice)
as FBI Lab Tech Molly Choi
as Julie Blanch
Producer
as Executive Producer