Hong Chau
ActingAlso Known As
هونگ چائو
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.
Movies
(16 total)
The Menu
as Elsa
The Whale
as Liz
Downsizing
as Ngoc Lan Tran
Inherent Vice
as Jade
Asteroid City
as Polly
Artemis Fowl
as Opal Koboi (uncredited)
Kinds of Kindness
as Sarah / Sharon / Aka
The Instigators
as Dr. Donna Rivera
"Wuthering Heights"
as Nelly
Duck Butter
as Glow
Showing Up
as Jo
Driveways
as Kathy
American Woman
as Jenny
The Sheep Detectives
as Beth Pennock
Market Hours
as Angela
TV Shows
(19 total)
How I Met Your Mother
as Cook Pu
BoJack Horseman
as Pickles Aplenty (voice)
NCIS
as FBI Lab Tech Molly Choi
American Dad!
as Korean Spy (voice)
Big Little Lies
as Jackie
Watchmen
as Lady Trieu
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Julie Blanch
The Night Agent
as Diane Farr
Poker Face
as Marge
Good Luck Charlie
as Theresa
Homecoming
as Audrey Temple
Treme
as Linh
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
The Sarah Silverman Program.
as Asian Masseuse
Forever
as Sarah
A to Z
as Lora
