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Showing Up

as Jo

2023
Driveways

as Kathy

2020
American Woman

as Jenny

2019
Duck Butter

as Glow

2018
Downsizing

as Ngoc Lan Tran

2017
Inherent Vice

as Jade

2014
Hong Chau Hong Chau

Birthday

1979-06-25

Place of Birth

Thailand

Biography

Hong Chau is an American actress known for her appearance in the US film Downsizing (2017) as Vietnamese amputee and political activist Ngoc Lan Tran. For her performance, she was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, and several other awards for best supporting actress. Before Downsizing, she appeared in the US television series Treme (2010-2013) and the US film Inherent Vice (2014). In 2018, she appeared as a guest star in several TV series. 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, Louisiana arranged for a family to sponsor Chau and her family. After growing up in New Orleans, Chau majored in film studies at Boston University and pursued an acting career.
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