Elaine Kao Biography
Elaine Kao is a Taiwanese-American stage, television, and film actress who has appeared in Bridesmaids (2011), Funny People (2009), and Red Doors (2005).
Elaine Kao Age
Kao was born on August 11, 1953, in Los Angeles, United States of America. She is 70 years old as of August 2023.
Elaine Kao Education
She holds a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Irvine, as well as an MFA in acting from CalArts.
Elaine Kao Career
Kao has also appeared in TV shows such as Snowpiercer (as Anne Roche), Kenan (as Elle), Upside-Down Magic (as Professor Han), No Good Nick (as Ms. Lee), For The People (as Alice Huang), American Koko (as series regular Lucky Ling), Netflix’s Disjointed (as Mary), Fresh Off the Boat (as Little Auntie), Hawaii Five-0 (as Dr. Jill Loi), Hart of Dixie. Kao also appeared in a number of short films and independent films, as the female protagonist Mai in Kevin Lau’s Made in Chinatown, which won Best Short, Best Writing, and Best Actor (Tim Chiou) at the 2013 8th Annual NBC Short Cuts Film Festival, with Kao also winning a Best Actress award for her starring role in that film at the 2013 Asians on Film Festival as well. Susie Choi in Christine Yoo’s Wedding Palace, as Marianne Quon/Lai Yee (“The Technicolor Movie Queen” of Chinese Cinema) in Timothy Tau’s short film bio-pic Keye Luke, as Delia in Cynthia Liu’s “Red Thread,” as Linda Ahn in Philip Chung’s “A Ribbon of Dreams” and as the Mother in James Huang’s “Chapter 21.”
Kao has also appeared in productions by the Lodestone Theatre Ensemble (Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly, Last Summer, and as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet), East West Players (as Jing-Mei in EWP’s production of The Joy Luck Club and as Rose in EWP’s production of Philip Kan Gotanda’s Sisters Matsumoto), Company of Angels (as Angie in Vasanti Saxena’s Sun Sisters), Centre Theatre Group The Cleveland Playhouse is a theatre in Cleveland, Ohio.
Elaine Kao’s Net Worth
Kao has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
Elaine Kao Movies
2002 A Ribbon of Dreams
2003 Red Thread
2005 The Catch
2006 Red Doors
2008 How I Met Your Mother
2011 Bridesmaids
2014 Liv and Maddie Sensei
2016 Fresh Off the Boat
2017 Disjointed
2020 Upside-Down Magic
2021 Snowpiercer
2021 Kenan