Kieu Chinh

Q: Has Kieu Chinh won any awards?

While Kieu Chinh has not won major awards, she has been recognized for her contributions to Asian American cinema and has received nominations for her performances.

Q: What was Kieu Chinh's first film?

Kieu Chinh's first film was 'The Girl from Hanoi' in 1968. This marked the beginning of her acting career in Vietnam before she moved to the United States.

Q: How did Kieu Chinh get involved in acting?

Kieu Chinh began her acting career in Vietnam before moving to the U.S. Her passion for storytelling and performance led her to pursue acting professionally.

Q: What is Kieu Chinh's background?

Kieu Chinh was born in Hanoi, Vietnam, and later moved to the United States. She has worked extensively to promote Vietnamese culture through her roles.

Q: How many children does Kieu Chinh have?

Kieu Chinh has one child, a daughter named Jennifer Lee, who has also been involved in the arts.

Q: What is Kieu Chinh's estimated net worth?

Kieu Chinh's estimated net worth is around 1 million USD, reflecting her successful career in film and television.

Q: What recent projects is Kieu Chinh involved in?

Kieu Chinh stars in the upcoming series 'The Sympathizer', which is set to be released in 2024, continuing her legacy in the industry.

Known for

City Of Angels (2025)

2025 / Action, Crime

After a spree of serial killings across Los Santos, a depressed, alcoholic detective attempts to solve the identity behind the killer.

Name

Kieu Chinh

Height

5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)

Born

22 February 1941, Hanoi, Vietnam

Spouses

Robert E. H. Lee (1975–1980)

Children

1 child, Jennifer Lee

Parents

Nguyen Thi Vang, Kieu Chinh

Estimated Net Worth

1 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	TV Dope Thief Two lifelong friends in Philadelphia pose as DEA agents to rob small-time drug dealers. It's a perfect grift—until they choose...	Xuan 'Grandma' Pham	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2025	Movie Control Freak A motivational speaker, plagued by an uncontrollable itch on her head, becomes infected with a parasitic demon from her homeland.	Aunt Thuy	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2024	Movie My Eyes When Optometrist Alana discovers her daughter has a rare inherited eye disease, she must look into her past to realize...	Mrs. Cheong	Not rated
2024	TV The Sympathizer Near the end of the Vietnam War, a spy who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the...	Crapulent Major's Mother	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2019	Movie Finding Julia An acting student is haunted by the early death of her mother.	Van Tran	Not rated
2019	Movie In Full Bloom In Full Bloom tells the story of Cecile, an older Vietnamese hoarder, whose life is upended when worms open a...	Cecile	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2018	TV The Neighborhood The nicest guy in the Midwest moves his family into a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles where not everyone appreciates...	Tuyen	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2014	Movie Hollow A young girl falls into a river and drowns. When her body is found in a remote village along the...	Shaman Linh	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2012	Movie Trade of Innocents In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a...	(voice)	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2012	Movie Pearls of the Far East Seven stories about Vietnamese women spanning different generations, exploring their inner lives and forbidden loves.	Kieu	Not rated
2009	Movie 21 and a Wake-Up "I learn that Chris McIntyre served in Vietnam and that "21 and a Wakeup," set in an Army hospital in...	Mamason	TMDB 2.0 / 10
2009	TV NCIS: Los Angeles The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service...	Kim Nguyen	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2009	TV NCIS: Los Angeles The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service...	Madge	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2008	Movie 21 Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to...	Chinese Woman	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2007	Movie Journey From the Fall Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family who was tragically affected by the war are forced...	Ba Noi (Grandmother)	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2003	Movie Tempted The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke out. Thus it is...	Kehau	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2002	Movie Face Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to...	Mrs. Liu	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2001	Movie Green Dragon A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon'...	Kieu	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2000	Movie What's Cooking? Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.	Grandma Nguyen	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1999	Movie Catfish in Black Bean Sauce An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After 22 years, the children...	Thanh	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1998	TV Martial Law Sammo Law spins, kicks, and chops his way through crime as a one-man police force in Los Angeles. He's a...	Lin Sung Yuan	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1998	Movie City of Angels When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed...	Asian Woman	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1997	Movie Riot In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to...	Mrs. Lee	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1996	TV Promised Land Promised Land is an American drama series which aired on CBS from 1996 to 1999. It is a spin-off from...	Mrs. Kim	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1995	TV Cybill Cybill is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre, which aired on CBS from January 2, 1995, to July...	Herbalist	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1994	TV Touched by an Angel Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads...	Mrs. Kim	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1994	TV Touched by an Angel Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads...	Lang	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1994	TV ER ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and...	Mrs. Chen	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1994	TV Chicago Hope Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September...	Mrs. Mai Ying Wang	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1993	Movie The Joy Luck Club Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore...	Suyuan Wong	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1990	Movie Last Flight Out Fact-based story set in Saigon on April, 1975, shortly after U.S. combat troops have withdrawn, and immediately before Communist forces...	Unknown character	Not rated
1990	Movie The Girl Who Came Between Them A home is divided when a 13 year old Vietnamese girl moves in with a family of an ex-GI who...	Thuy	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1990	Movie Vietnam Texas A priest (Robert Ginty) learns that he fathered a child during his tour of duty in Vietnam and that the...	Mallan	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1989	Movie Welcome Home Jake died in Vietnam; his family mourned him, then moved on. When he reappears, quite alive, the question is, what...	Leang	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1989	Movie Gleaming the Cube An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when someone...	Madame Trac	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1987	Movie Hamburger Hill The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling...	Mama San	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1986	Movie The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer After two attempts to kidnap a little girl Mike Hammer is hired to protect her.	Sai Luhn	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1986	Movie The Girl Who Spelled Freedom A Cambodian family is given sponsored immigration to the United States where one daughter becomes a spelling bee champion.	Phoen Yann	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1983	Movie Cocaine: One Man's Seduction A 47-year-old real estate salesman gets trapped in the insidious web of cocaine addiction.	Mrs. Marchais	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1982	Movie The Letter The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear...	Chinese Woman	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1981	Movie The Other Victim After his wife is raped, a man struggles to find ways to express the anger and helplessness which the crime...	Mrs. Troung	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1981	Movie Fly Away Home Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment...	Anh	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1980	Movie The Children of An Lac Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale,...	Thuy	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1979	TV Roots: The Next Generations Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story...	U.N. Receptionist	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1978	Movie My Husband Is Missing A young wife journeys to North Vietnam in an effort to find her husband, an American flier reported missing in...	Lu-An	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1978	Movie The Lucifer Complex An intelligence agent discovers a Nazi plot to revive the Third Reich by using clones.	Major Chinn Lee	TMDB 3.0 / 10
1977	Movie The Hostage Heart When billionaire industrialist goes into a hospital for a heart operation, some people who claim to be revolutionaries enter the...	Flor Aquino	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1973	Movie The Shadow on the Roadside In the countryside of South Vietnam during the war, a local woman falls in love with a soldier stationed nearby,...	Unknown character	TMDB 1.0 / 10
1972	Movie Love Storm A law student and a navy officer fosters a beautiful love, but soon get separated by war.	Thủy	Not rated
1971	Movie Warrior, Who Are You A beautiful reporter goes to the front line to find a soldier with whom she fell in love through correspondences.	Mỹ Lan	Not rated
1970	Movie The Evil Within Interpol follows a fat man from Tokyo to Hong Kong to Manila as he takes care of business for an...	Kamar Souria	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1967	Movie From Saigon to Dien Bien Phu The Joint Chiefs of Staff want to send some ARVNSF troops to North's Điện Biên Phủ for the Dien Bien...	Kiều Loan	Not rated
1965	Movie Operation C.I.A. A young CIA agent is assigned to Saigon to stop a planned political assassination.	Kim-Chinh	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1964	Movie A Yank in Viet-Nam A U.S. Marine Corps pilot is shot down over the Vietnamese jungle. In his endeavor to get to safety, he...	Kieu Chinh	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1964	Movie The Eyes I Used to Know A doctor is distraught to find out the newly-admitted patient in his shift is the daughter of his childhood sweetheart.	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Chrysalis In war-torn 1970s Vietnam, a resourceful young boy navigates his place in a chaotic world, guided by his grandmother’s wisdom...	Unknown character	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2019	Movie Finding Julia An acting student is haunted by the early death of her mother.	Writer Writing	Not rated

Control Freak

2025 / TMDB 5.6

My Eyes

2024

Finding Julia

2019

In Full Bloom

2019 / TMDB 6.4

Hollow

2014 / TMDB 7.5

Trade of Innocents

2012 / TMDB 5.2

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The Sympathizer: TV release date and where to watch in Australia

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, The Sympathizer begins streaming in April. Here's everything to know about the TV adaptation.

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What are Kieu Chinh's most notable films?

Kieu Chinh is best known for her performances in 'The Joy Luck Club' and 'The Sympathizer'. She has also appeared in various television series, showcasing her range as an actress.

Has Kieu Chinh won any awards?

What was Kieu Chinh's first film?

How did Kieu Chinh get involved in acting?

What is Kieu Chinh's background?

How many children does Kieu Chinh have?

What is Kieu Chinh's estimated net worth?

What recent projects is Kieu Chinh involved in?

Known for

City Of Angels (2025)

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