Rosalind Chao Biography
Rosalind Chao is an American actress, best known for playing Soon-Lee Klinger in the mid-1980s CBS show After MASH, Rose Hsu Jordan in the 1993 movie The Joy Luck Club, the recurring character Keiko O’Brien on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the 1990s.
How old is Rosalind Chao? – Age
She is 66 years old as of September 23, 2023. Rosalind was born on September 23, 1957, in Anaheim, California, United States.
Rosalind Chao Height
The star stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches tall.
Rosalind Chao Early Life
Her parents were performers with the Peking opera before they relocated to Anaheim where they ran a successful pancake restaurant, Chao’s Chinese and American Restaurant, across the street from Disneyland. Chao worked there form an early age. She attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, and then the University of Southern California, where she earned a degree in broadcast journalism in 1978. Chao worked at Disneyland as an international tour guide, and contemplated pursuing journalism as a career.
Is Rosalind Chao married? – Husband
Rosalind met her husband Simon Templeman while they were working in theatre at the Mark Taper Forum. They have a son and a daughter.
Rosalind Chao Career
Rosalind parents were instrumental in her decision to pursue acting. She began acting at the age of five, in the California-based Peking opera traveling company with which her parents were involved. During the summer, they sent her to Taiwan for further acting study and experience. As a child, the actor played the daughter of a laundry owner on a 1970 episode of Here’s Lucy, “ Lucy the Lauderess”.
Year later, deciding not to pursue acting, Chao enrolled in the communications department at the University of Southern California where she earned her degree in journalism. Although she later returned to acting. Her breakthrough role was that of Soon-Lee, a South Korean refugee, in the final episodes of the TV series M*A*S*H. Rosalind Chao repeated the role in M*A*S*H sequel, 1983’s After MASH, her first role billed at co-star status.
She played Japanese exo-botanist Keiko O’Brien on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In 2010, a preliminary casting memo for The Next Generation form 1987 was published, revealing that Chao was originally considered for the part of Enterprise security chief Tasha Yar. In August 2018, Chao was cast as Mulan’s mother in the 2020 live-action retelling of Mulan. In she was invited to join the Academy of motion Picture Arts and Sciences, citing her contirbutions to the critically acclaimed films The Joy Luck Club and I Am Sam.
Rosalind Chao Net Worth
Her net worth is $2 million.
Rosalind Chao Movie
1980 – The Big Brawl
1981 – Spider-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge
1981 – An Eye for an Eye
1987 – Slam Dance
1990 – Denial
1993 – The Joy Luck Club
1994 – North
1994 – Love Affair
1997 – The End of Violence
2001 – Impostor
2005 – Life of the Party
2012 – Knife Fight
2019 – Plus One
2020 – Mulan
2020 – Magic camp
2021 – Together Together
Rosalind Chao TV Shows
1970 – Here’s Lucy
1972 – Anna and the King
1977 – Kojak
1979 – How the West Was Won
1981 – One Day at a Time
1987 – Spies
1988 – Shooter
1991 – Thritysomething
1994 – Web of Deception
1999 – ER
2010 – Trauma
2014 – The Neighbors
2015 – Castle
2016 – Hawaii Five – 0
2019 – This Is Us
2022 – The First Lady
2023 – Sweet Tooth
2024 – 3 Body Problem