Beulah Quo

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Beulah Quo (born April 17, 1923 in Stockton , California , † October 23, 2002 in La Mesa , California; actually: Beulah Kwoh ) was an American film and stage actress .

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Beulah Kwoh studied social sciences at the University of California and then trained as a teacher. She then moved with her family to China , where she was able to gain initial work experience.

After the end of World War II , she fled China with her husband and their one-month-old son on a US destroyer to escape the emergence of communism . In the USA she worked again in a small community school until the director Henry King noticed her in 1955 , who was looking for an Asian woman to act as a dialogue consultant for Jennifer Jones , who played a Eurasian in his new film Love Is a Many Splendored Thing . After a few meetings with King it became clear that Kwoh would play a small supporting role. She also changed her family name to Quo , as people often misunderstood the name Kwoh as a radio station. Shortly afterwards, the actress's career began, who was mainly present in Asian roles due to her appearance. She also founded one of America's first theater groups in which exclusively Asian actors appeared.

Since Quo mostly appeared in television series, including Airwolf , Magnum, and Hawaii Five-Zero , her face is rarely seen in feature films. A well-known film role was that of the Mongolian Empress Chabi in the 1982 mini-series Marco Polo . She took one of her last film roles in 1999 at Brokedown Palace . She and her husband, Edwin Quoh, had two children together, son Stewart and daughter Mary Ellen. She died of heart failure in October 2002 at the age of 79.

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SURNAME Quo, Beulah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kwoh, Beulah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and stage actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockton , California
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2002
Place of death La Mesa , California