| Kieu Chinh | |
|---|---|
 Kieu Chinh guest starred on M*A*S*H as Kyung Soon, a South Korean aristocrat whom Hawkeye begins to fall in love with in the Season 6 episode "In Love and War" (episode #8). | |
| Personal Information | |
| Gender: | Female |
| Born: | July 3, 1937[1] |
| Birthplace | Hanoi, Vietnam |
| Occupation/ Career: |
Actress, Film producer, Spokesperson, Lecturer, Philanthropist, Humanitarian |
| Known for: | role in the film The Joy Luck Club |
| Spouse(s): | Nguyễn Năng Tế (1955–1981) 3 children, 4 grandchildren |
| Character information | |
| Appeared on/in: | M*A*S*H (TV series) |
| Episodes appeared in: | "In Love and War" (Season 6) |
| Character(s) played: | Kyung Soon |
Kiều Chinh (also known as Nguyễn Thị Chinh, Kieu-Chin or Kieu-Chinh, born Nguyễn Thị Chinh on July 3, 1937) made a guest appearance on M*A*S*H as Kyung Soon, an aristocratic South Korean woman whom Hawkeye is enlisted by Colonel Potter to help attend to her mother, who is sick, as the two begin to fall in love with one another in the Season 6 episode "In Love and War" (episode #8). Kieu is best known for her role as Suyuan Woo in the 1991 film The Joy Luck Club.
Career[]
Kieu began her acting career in her South Vietnam, starting with a starring role in Hồi Chuông Thiên Mụ (The Bells of Thiên Mụ Temple) (1957). Kieu Chinh soon became one of South Vietnam's best-known personalities. In the 1960s, in addition to Vietnamese films, she also appeared in several American productions including A Yank in Viet-Nam (1964) and Operation C.I.A. (1965), the latter opposite Burt Reynolds. Kieu Chinh also produced a war epic Người Tình Không Chân Dung (Warrior, Who Are You) (1971), which later would be remastered and shown in the U.S. at the 2003 Vietnamese International Film Festival.
In 1975, while Kieu Chinh was on the set in Singapore, communist North Vietnamese overran Saigon. Kieu Chinh left for the U.S. where she resumed her acting career in the M*A*S*H "In Love and War" episode, which was written by Alan Alda and loosely based on her life story. Chinh subsequently acted in feature films as well as TV-movies including The Children of An Lac (TV), Hamburger Hill (1987), Riot (1997), Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999), Face (2002), Journey From The Fall (2005), and the FOX-TV series 21 (2008).
Personal life[]
For over a decade, Kieu Chinh has been a lecturer of the Greater Talent Network in New York. She has been invited to give keynote addresses at Pfizer, Kellogg, Cornell University and University of San Diego. Kieu is also active in philanthropic work. Together with journalist Terry Anderson, she co-founded the Vietnam Children's Fund (http://www.vietnamchildren.org), which has built schools in Vietnam attended by more than 25,000 students annually. Kieu Chinh and Anderson continue to serve as the Fund's co-chair.
References[]
- ↑ American Actresses born in 1937. patheticfacts.com. Retrieved on 2018-01-04.
External links[]
- Kieu Chinh article at Wikipedia
