Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows FanStore News Showtimes

Kiều Chinh

Highest Rated: 95% Journey From the Fall (2007)

Lowest Rated: 29% Gleaming the Cube (1988)

Birthday: Jul 3, 1937

Birthplace: Hanoi, Vietnam

A Vietnamese character actress who got her start in film when Joseph L. Mankiewicz came to Saigon for location footage for his offbeat "The Quiet American" (1958), Kieu Chinh soon became one of South Vietnam's best-known personalities, making over 40 films and hosting her own popular TV talk show. In the mid-1960s she also appeared in several American productions including "A Yank in Vietnam" (1964) and "Operation C.I.A." (1965), the latter opposite Burt Reynolds. Having lost a father and a brother in conflicts with the French in the early 50s, Kieu Chinh quickly left for the US when the North Vietnamese invaded in 1975. TV-movies including "The Children of An Lac" (1980), "The Letter" (1982) and "The Girl Who Spelled Freedom" (1986) have kept her busiest, but feature films offered her roles in "Hamburger Hill" (1987) and "Gleaming the Cube" (1988). Wayne Wang's "The Joy Luck Club" (1993) offered Kieu Chinh one of her best parts to date as a mother reaching out to her daughter over games of mah-jongg.

Show Less Show More

Highest rated movies

95% 89% Journey From the Fall
Watchlist
86% 89% The Joy Luck Club
Watchlist
63% 50% Green Dragon
Watchlist
63% Face
Watchlist
47% 64% Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
Watchlist
29% 68% Gleaming the Cube
Watchlist
Hollow
Watchlist
87% Finding Julia
Watchlist
Message From Nam
Watchlist
0% Angels' Brigade
Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 87% Finding Julia Van Tran (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hollow Shaman Linh (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pearls of the Far East Kieu (Character) - 2011
95% 89% Journey From the Fall Unknown (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet 39% Tempted Kehau (Character) - 2003
63% No Score Yet Face Mrs. Liu (Character) $106.9K 2002
63% 50% Green Dragon Kieu (Character) $146.1K 2001
47% 64% Catfish in Black Bean Sauce Thanh (Character) $1.3M 1999
No Score Yet 75% Riot Mrs. Lee (Character) - 1997
86% 89% The Joy Luck Club Suyuan Woo (Character) $32.8M 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Message From Nam Sister Thieu (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Vietnam, Texas Mallan (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet 67% Welcome Home Leang (Character) $830.7K 1989
29% 68% Gleaming the Cube Madame Trac (Character) $2.5M 1988
No Score Yet 44% Cocaine: One Man's Seduction Mrs. Marchais (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 0% Angels' Brigade Kako Umaro (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lucifer Complex Major Chinn Lee (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cover Girls Chinese Model (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Evil Within Unknown (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Operation C.I.A. Kim-Chinh (Character) - 1965

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 73% The Neighborhood Mai (Guest Star) 2022
No Score Yet 63% NCIS: Los Angeles Kim Nguyen (Guest Star) 2014 2018
30% 75% The Beast Unknown (Guest Star) 2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chicago Hope Unknown (Guest Star) 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Martial Law Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Touched by an Angel Unknown (Guest Star) 1997 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nash Bridges Unknown (Guest Star) 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cybill Unknown (Guest Star) 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hotel Unknown (Guest Star) 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fantasy Island Unknown (Guest Star) 1981
No Score Yet 87% M*A*S*H Kyung Soon (Guest Star) 1977