Kiều Chinh

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Kiều Chinh (1939 –  ) là một nữ diễn viên nổi tiếng ở miền nam Việt Nam từ trước năm 1975, từng tham gia trong một số phim của Hollywood.



Kieu Chinh (real name Chinh Thi Nguyen) is an actress who first starred in a Vietnamese production called "Hoi Chuong Thien Mu" (The Bells of Thien Mu Temple) (1957). Kieu Chinh soon became one of Vietnam's best-known personalities. In the 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. Kieu Chinh also produced a war epic "Nguoi Tinh Khong Chan Dung" (Faceless Lover) (1970), 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 of "Full House" in Singapore, communist North Vietnamese overran Saigon. Kieu Chinh left for the U.S. where she resumed her acting career in a 1977 episode of M*A*S*H loosely based on her life story.

Kieu Chinh acted in TV-movies including "The Children of An Lac" (1980), "The Letter" (1982), "The Girl Who Spelled Freedom" (1986).

Feature film credits include "Hamburger Hill" (1987), "Gleaming the Cube" (1988), "Catfish in Black Bean Sauce" (1999), "What's Cooking" (2000), "Face" (2002) "Returning Lyly (2002)".

Kieu Chinh starred as Suyuan, one of the women in Wayne Wang's The Joy Luck Club in 1993. In 2005, Kieu Chinh starred in "Journey from the Fall," an epic feature film tracing a Vietnamese family through the aftermath of the fall of Saigon, the re-education camp, the boat people experience, and the initial difficulties of settling in the U.S.

In 1996, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded an Emmy to the documentary "Kieu Chinh: A Journey Home" by Patrick Perez / KTTV. At the 2003 Vietnamese International Film Festival, Kieu Chinh received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Also in 2003, at the Women's Film Festival in Turin, Italy, Kieu Chinh was awarded the Special Acting Award.

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