Kieu Chinh (born September 3rd, 1937) is a Vietnamese-American 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 Hawkeye’s South Korean love interest in the TV show M*A*S*H. 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 ABC’s Vietnam war series China Beach from 1989 to 1991 and the Fox TV show 21 in 2008. But her best-known role is that of Suyuan Woo in Wayne Wang’s The Joy Luck Club in 1993, a film about the relationship between Chinese immigrant mothers and their Chinese-American mothers. Amongst the accolades that Chinh has received in her six-decade career are the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Vietnamese International Film Festival in 2003, the Special Acting Award at the Women’s 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. Kieu Chinh(1937년생, Hanoi, Vietnam) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 Mãi Nợ Một Lời Tạm Biệt, 컨트롤 프릭, 조이 럭 클럽이 있으며, 그 외에도 NCIS: 로스앤젤레스, Chicago Hope, ER, Touched by an Angel, 이웃집, Martial Law, Cybill, 동조자, '언익스펙티드' - Dope Thief, 시티 오브 엔젤, Promised Land, 21 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. 특히 2026년에는 Mãi Nợ Một Lời Tạm Biệt에도 참여해서 활동중이다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2026년 Mãi Nợ Một Lời Tạm Biệt에 출연했다. 2026년 The 23rd Annual Unforgettable Awards에 출연했다. 2025년 Vietnam – Geburt einer Nation에 출연했다.