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Kieu Chinh

In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Nguyễn, but is often simplified to Nguyen in English-language text. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Chinh.

Kieu Chinh (Vietnamese: Kiều Chinh; born September 3, 1937) is a Vietnamese-American actress, producer, humanitarian, lecturer and philanthropist.

Kieu Chinh
Chinh in 2014
Born
Nguyễn Thị Kiều Chinh

(1937-09-03) September 3, 1937 (age 87)
Hanoi, Tonkin, French Indochina
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Actress
  • producer
Years active1957–present
Spouse
Nguyễn Năng Tế
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(m. 1955; div. 1980)​
Children3
WebsiteKieu Chinh

Early life

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Dame Kieu Chinh was born on September 3, 1937, in Hanoi with the real name Nguyen Thị Kieu Chinh.

During World War II, her mother and her newly born brother were killed when their hospital was struck by an Allied bombing raid targeting Japanese troops in Hanoi during the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, when Chinh was at the age of six.[1] Even so, her father was a government official so the family was quite wealthy.

Following the end of World War II and the subsequent division of Vietnam into Communist and National regimes after the Geneva Conference, Chinh's older brother ran away from home to join the Resistance Forces. Her father urged her to board an aircraft and travel to the South, while he remained in the North to search for her older brother, promising to reunite with her in Saigon. Following her arrival in South Vietnam, however, she never saw her father again. Following her return to Vietnam in 1995 to meet her older brother, Chinh learned that her father was imprisoned in a communist re-education camp for more than six years and, after his release, died homeless and destitute.[1]

Her father's friend adopted the young Kieu Chinh. Monsieur Nguyễn Đại Độ was worried that his son would stay in America after the airborne course, so he decided to send a telegram to the North. He asked permission from Chinh's father to pair her with Sub-lieutenant Nguyễn Năng Tế - the son of Mr. Độ - in 1956. After that, she only went to church on weekends because her husband's family were Buddhists. This had a great impact on her later career.

Career

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1955–1975

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One day in 1956 Kieu Chinh was walking near the Hôtel Continental, when a young man approached her and asked her to go to a roadside café to meet someone. Then he introduced that person as a famous director named Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Mankiewicz said that Chinh suited a fictional role he was going to film in Saigon. He suggested she take the script of The Quiet American. However, after pressure from her family, who were reluctant to allow her, Kieu Chinh had to decline that opportunity. Within a week, Saigon widespread press headline news, including portrait photos of "Vietnamese unknown girl rejects Hollywood's famous director". So politician Bùi Diễm invited Kieu Chinh to play the lead role in the first project of his studio - Tân Việt Films. Her character, which her family agreed to, was a Buddhist nun. So Chinh began her acting career in South Vietnam, starting with a starring role in The Bells of Thiên Mụ Temple (Hồi Chuông Thiên Mụ) (1957).[2]

In her career spanning over sixty years from 1957 to the present, Chinh has received many accolades including an Emmy Award in 1996.[3] Her film roles included Operation C.I.A. (1965) and The Joy Luck Club (1993). She is also a president, co-founder, and co-chair of the Vietnam Children's Fund.

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 Faceless Lover (or Warrior, Who Are You) (1971), which later would be remastered and shown in the U.S. at the 2003 Vietnamese International Film Festival.[4]

About 1970, filmmaker Hoàng Vĩnh Lộc told his best friend Kieu Chinh that : "Chinh, we made so many nonsense ones that I got too bored. I have just written this scenario. Read ! So we can now do it, alright ?". By Hoàng Vĩnh Lộc's idea, a feature of Faceless Lover that related so much to the military forces, that every Saigon studio had declined. They feared the system of censorship, not to mention that South Vietnamese contemporary audiences almost hated war films. "We should try doing it !" — said Kieu Chinh. After deliberation, they decided to immediately establish a small studio to realize their ideas.

Permission for the Giao Chỉ Films Studio's war film was initially rejected because the studio was privately owned, so general director Kieu Chinh asked for permission from the Ministry of Information, Ministry of National Defence, and especially the headquarter of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces. So during the summer of 1971, the project started filming. Later that year, the film was first shown at the Rex Movie Theatre which was the biggest theatre in South Vietnam. Later, it was shown at the Asian Film Festival in Taipei. However, its subsequent public release was delayed for almost a year.

After its completion, the release of Faceless Lover was blocked for more than a year, because the censorship agency viewed it as an anti-war film which could discourage youths from joining the army. In a 1973 screening event at the National Centre for Cinema by Minister of Open-Arms Hoàng Đức Nhã[5] with 100% audiences as the Cabinet's members. Film director Hoàng Vĩnh Lộc and producer Kieu Chinh was also invited. Afterwads, Mr. Nhã spoke with other ministers : "What are your opinions ? Should it be forbidden or allowed to be released?". One exclaimed that : "C'est une sale guerre !", so "Minister, please tell me now : What war is not a «sale guerre» ?" — said Kieu Chinh. ("Sale Guerre" is French for Dirty War.) At last, Minister Hoàng Đức Nhã suggested a vote. So the result was 19 Yes and only 1 No.

In Chinh's memoir, Faceless Lover was allowed to be shown again in 1973. It had the honor of being the first Vietnamese film shown at the Rex Movie Theatre. Rex specialised in showing US blockbusters such as Doctor Zhivago or Romeo and Juliet. Kieu Chinh must "insisted" Madame Ưng Thi who was an owner of Rex Theatre.[6] She was reluctant and said : "This can not show Vietnamese ones. I am afraid of small audiences and a loss.". Eventually, Madame Ưng Thi agreed to a contract of a week. "If from the third day, the theatre has such still many empty seats then I will cancel !" — said Madame Ưng Thi. However, director Hoàng Vĩnh Lộc immediately replied : "Just do it, then will see !".

Giao Chỉ Films decided to initially offer free entrance for military men and their families. So the screening event was a great success with full houses. The entire crew all went to Pink Night tearoom to celebrate. Guests included: Trịnh Công Sơn, Cung Tiến, Văn Quang... then back again to Kieu Chinh's home at Lữ Gia housing overnight. After the initial contract week, Faceless Lover was deemed a success, so actor Minh Trường Sơn had to collect a large payment. Madame Ưng Thi immediately agreed to a second week's screening with producer Kieu Chinh. The film continued expanding to Đại-Nam Cinema and the network of Saigonese theatres.

Chinh's Faceless Lover was the first war movie to dominate newspaper headlines in South Vietnam. The total cost was 15 million VN$ (1US$ = 277,75VN$ in 1970), but the first month's profit was more than 48 million VN$. This allowed director Hoàng Vĩnh Lộc to make two new films which were Male and Female[a] and In a Student's Embrace.[b] Also, Hoàng Vĩnh Lộc planned a post-war future for Vietnam. He wanted to realize a film project The Cartus Plant which was based on the Bible. Although the event of April 30 made everything vanish into smoke. The original film tape was lost after the National Day of Hatred, but fortunately, a copy existed. Actress Kieu Chinh reissued it in California from the 1980s to the present.

The film won the Best War Film & Best Theme (for Hoàng Vĩnh Lộc) and Best Leading Actress (for Kieu Chinh) at the Asian International Film Festival XVI in Taipei on June 6, 1971.[7] From then until now, it has been given notable mention in all lists of Vietnamese films, though was still forbidden to appear on television channels.

In April 1975, while Chinh was on a film set in Singapore, she realised that North Vietnam was about to overrun Saigon. She returned to South Vietnam, and then on to Singapore using her diplomatic passport. When the government of South Vietnam fell, she was deported from Singapore because her diplomatic passport was no longer valid. She was refused entry to France, Britain and the US. Eventually, she was admitted to Canada. She needed to get a job immediately and ended up working on a chicken farm. She tried to contact previous acquaintances in the acting world including Glenn Ford and Burt Reynolds, but both were "unavailable" to help. Eventually, she contacted Tippi Hedren who arranged an air ticket and a US visa for her and invited her to her home. William Holden also was supportive once he had found out about Chinh's plight.[8] Kieu Chinh resumed her acting career in the US, her first part being in a 1977 episode of M*A*S*H "In Love and War", written by Alan Alda and loosely based on her life story.[9]

1976 to present

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Chinh lived in Canada with her children for several years. After divorcing her husband, Chinh decided to go to California to settle there. She founded the Giao Chỉ Film Production company to promote Vietnamese culture and arts. Chinh invited many old friends who are known authors and artists for collaborations. At the same time, she re-released two films which she still kept after the sorrowful events of April 30: Faceless Lover and Love Storm.

Chinh subsequently acted in feature films as well as TV movies, including The Children of An Lac (1980), Hamburger Hill (1987), Riot (1997), Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999), Face (2002), Journey From The Fall (2005), 21 (2008). She also became an MC with Giao Chi Television from Los Angeles.[10]

From 1989 to 1991, she had a recurring role as Triệu Âu on the ABC Vietnam War drama series China Beach.[11]

In her best-known role, she starred as Suyuan, one of the women in Wayne Wang’s film The Joy Luck Club in 1993.[12] In 2005, Chinh starred in Journey from the Fall, a film tracing a Vietnamese family through the aftermath of the fall of Saigon, the re-education camps, the boat people experience, and the initial difficulties of settling in the U.S.[13][14]

In 2016, she returned to Vietnam to inaugurate the 50th school which was built in Hanoi under the Vietnam Children's Fund.[15] In 2021, she released her memoir Kieu Chinh An Artist in Exile.

Personal life

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During the peak period of boat people fleeing the border since 1980, Chinh did charity work for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. She called for the attention of the US government to help Vietnamese boat people floating at sea or trapped in refugee camps.[16] In 1993, together with journalist Terry A. Anderson, Kieu Chinh co-founded the Vietnam Children's Fund, a non-profit organization that has built a network of elementary schools in Vietnam as living memorials to remember the families and children lost in that country’s long wars.[17] The first school was located in Quảng Trị and named after one of the association's founders, Lewis Burwell Puller Jr., in memory of the American veteran who passed away nearly a year earlier.[18] By 2016, the organization had built its 50th school in Quảng Nam province.[19]

The family is Buddhist, but Kieu Chinh attended a Christian school when she was young. When Chinh married, she became a Buddhist. Both religions play an important role in her life.[20][21]: 21:32  In 2014, she met the 14th Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India,[22] and in 2016 at the Vietnamese Buddhist temple in Westminster, California.[23] Kieu Chinh and her husband Nang Te Nguyen (Nguyễn Năng Tế) had three children. The couple divorced in 1980.[24]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1957 The Bells of Thien Mu Temple Bhikkhunī Nhu Ngoc Original Title: Hồi Chuông Thiên Mụ [25]
1962 Mưa Rừng [26]
1964 A Yank in Viet-Nam Herself [27]
1965 Operation C.I.A. Kim Chinh [28]
1967 From Saigon to Dien Bien Phu Kieu Loan Original Title: Từ Sài Gòn tới Điện Biên Phủ [29]
1970 The Evil Within Kamar Souria [30]
1971 Warrior, Who Are You My Lan Original Title: Người Tình Không Chân Dung [31]
1972 Bão Tình Thuy [32]
1973 Chiếc Bóng Bên Đường Loan [32]
1974 Hè Muộn [32]
1978 The Lucifer Complex Major Chinn Lee [33]
1987 Hamburger Hill Mama San [34]
1989 Gleaming the Cube Madame Trac [35]
Welcome Home Leang [36]
1990 Vietnam, Texas Mallan [37]
1993 The Joy Luck Club Suyuan Woo [38]
1997 Riot Mrs. Lee [39]
1998 City of Angels Asian Woman [40]
1999 Catfish in Black Bean Sauce Thanh [41]
2000 What's Cooking? Grandma Nguyen [42]
2001 Green Dragon Kieu [43]
2002 Face Mrs. Liu [44]
2006 Journey from the Fall Grandmother [45]
2008 21 Chinese Woman [46]
2009 21 and a Wake-Up Mamason [47]
2011 Pearls of the Far East Kieu Original Title: Ngọc Viễn Đông [48]
2014 Hollow Linh Original Title: Đoạt Hồn [49]
2019 In Full Bloom Cecile Short film [50]

Television

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Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1976 Police Woman Mai Fuller Season 2, Episode 16: "The Melting Point of Ice" [51]
Switch Mai Tuc Season 2, Episode 13: "The 100,000 Ruble Rumble" [52]
1977 Cover Girls Chinese Model Television film [53]
M*A*S*H Kyung Soon Season 6, Episode 8: "In Love and War" [54]
1978 My Husband is Missing Lu An Television film [55]
1979 Roots: The Next Generations U.N. Receptionist Episode: Part VII (1960-1967) [56]
1980 The Children of An Lac Thuy Television film [57]
1981 Fantasy Island Oriental Woman Season 4, Episode 12: "The Heroine/The Warrior" [58]
Fly Away Home Anh Television film [59]
1982 Lou Grant Anh Season 5, Episode 13: "Immigrants" [60]
The Letter Chinese Woman Television film [61]
1983 Cocaine: One Man's Seduction Mrs. Marchais [62]
Dynasty Sister Agnes Season 3, 5 Episodes [63]
1984 Matt Houston Mrs. Li Season 3, Episode 6: "Return to Nam: Part 1" [64]
1985 Cagney & Lacey My Linh Season 5, Episode 6: "The Clinic" [65]
1986 The Disney Sunday Movie Phoen Yann Season 30, Episode 4: "The Girl Who Spelled Freedom" [66]
Hotel Mrs. Thanh Season 3, Episode 17: "Heroes" [67]
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Sai Luhn Television film [68]
1985–1988 Santa Barbara Farmer's Wife Season 1, 6 Episodes [69]
1988 Simon & Simon Mrs. Yamanoha Season 8, "Zen and the Art of the Split Finger Fastball" [70]
1990 The Girl Who Came Between Them Thuy Television film [71]
Last Flight Out Viet Cong's member [72]
1989–1991 China Beach Trieu Au/Sister Season 3–4, 7 Episodes [73]
1993 Message from Nam Sister Thieu Television film [74]
1996 Cybill Herbalist Season 2, Episode 21: "When You're Hot, You're Hot" [75]
1997 Promised Land Nurse Season 1, Episode 17: "Amazing Grace: Part 2" [76]
Nash Bridges Madame Nu Season 3, Episode 8: "Revelations" [77]
1997–1999 Touched by an Angel Lang/Mrs. Kim Season 3–5, 2 Episodes [78]
1999 Martial Law Lin Sung Yuan Season 1, Episode 22: "End Game: Part 2" [79]
2000 Chicago Hope Mrs. Mai Ying Wang Season 6, Episode 10: "Hanlon's Choice" [80]
2001 The Beast Penelope Episode 1: "The Price" [81]
2003 Tempted Kehau Television film [82]
2012 Awake Mrs. Do Episode 9: "Game Day" [83]
2014–2018 NCIS: Los Angeles Madge/Kim Nguyen Season 6/9, 2 Episodes [84]
2022 The Neighborhood Mai Season 5, "Welcome Back to the Neighborhood" [85]
2024 The Sympathizer Major's Mother Miniseries [86]
2025 Dope Thief Grandma Post-production [87]

Accolades

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She was named "Refugee of the Year" by the United States Congress in 1990,[88] received the "Warrior Woman Award" from the Asian Pacific Women’s Network, and was the only Vietnamese person invited to speak at the 10th anniversary ceremonies for the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC. At the 2003 Vietnamese International Film Festival, Chinh received the Lifetime Achievement Award. In the same year, at the Festival Internazionale Cinema delle Donne (Women's International Film Festival) in Turin, Chinh was awarded the Special Acting Award (Premio Speciale Per La Miglior Interpretazione Femminile). Three years later, the San Diego Asian Film Festival honored her with the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015, the San Francisco Bay Area – Festival of Globe (FOGsv) honors Chinh with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the film industry and more. A documentary based on her life, Kieu Chinh: A Journey Home by Patrick Perez / KTTV, won the Emmy Awards in 1996.[89] Chinh was honored as the 2009 Woman of the Year for her work in film and community service by State Senator Lou Correa.[90] In addition, she was awarded a Humanitarian Award at the Asian World Film Festival in 2021.[91]

Organizations[c] Year[d] Category Work Result Ref.
Asia-Pacific Film Festival 1972 Most Popular Actress of Asia Won [92]
1973 Best Leading Actress Warrior, Who Are You Won [93]
Asian World Film Festival 2021 Snow Leopard Lifetime Achievement Award Honored [94]
Winn Slavin Humanitarian Award Honored [95]
Boat People SOS 2010 In Pursuit of Liberty Award Won [96]
Committee of Vietnamese Overseas Artists 1994 Lifetime Achievement Award Honored [97]
Festival Internazionale Cinema delle Donne 2003 Special Acting Award Won [98]
Festival of Globe (FOGsv) 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award Honored [99]
Gold House 2023 Gold Generation Award The Joy Luck Club Won[e] [100]
Los Angeles Emmy Awards 1996 Light News Story Kieu Chinh: A Journey Home Won [101]
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award Honored [102]
South Vietnam 1969 Best Actress Award Won [103]
United States Congress 1990 Refugee of the Year Honored [104]
2017 60th Anniversary of Kieu Chinh Cinema Honored [103]
Vietnamese International Film Festival 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award Honored [105]
Women Making a Difference Award 2009 Woman of the Year Won [106]

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Notes

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  1. ^ Based on Khái Hưng's novel
  2. ^ Based on Nguyễn Thị Hoàng's novel
  3. ^ Awards, festivals, honors and other miscellaneous organizations are listed in alphabetical order.
  4. ^ Indicates the year of ceremony.
  5. ^ Shared with the cast & executive producer.

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