Hong Chau

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Hong Chau, 2017

Hong Chau (born June 25, 1979 in Thailand ) is an American actress.

Life

Hong Chau grew up as the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants in the east of the city of New Orleans . She has two siblings. Chau attended Eleanor McMain Secondary School , Ben Franklin High School, and the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts in Natchitoches . She graduated from Boston University with a degree in film studies out of an interest in creative writing .

Chau got into acting after college through working on friends' student films. She then moved to New York , where she took acting classes. According to her own statements, she appeared in various student films and less successful off-off and off-Broadway productions. Chau received her first acting pay for Finding My America (2006), a reality show on an Asian television network, in which she traveled from New York to San Francisco with another actress . She later moved from New York to Los Angeles on the advice of a sitcom director .

As of 2008, Chau was regular with one-off guest appearances on US series such as The Sarah Silverman Program. , How I Met Your Mother , Navy CIS , My Boys , Shit! My Dad Says , CSI: Vegas Represented. She received her first recurring role in the science fiction series Trenches (2010), in which she appeared in ten episodes as Spc. Wing could be seen. Between 2011 and 2013, Chau took on the role of Linh, the daughter of a Vietnamese fisherman, who befriends the street musician Sonny (played by Michiel Huisman ) in 13 episodes of the drama series Treme based in her hometown . She made her cinema debut in 2014 with a supporting role in Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice . In the crime comedy she can be seen as a brothel employee Jade, who entrusts leading actor Joaquin Phoenix with information about a drug trafficking ring. Chau received praise from the specialist critics in 2017 for her second feature film Downsizing , in which she played a leading role. In the science fiction comedy by Alexander Payne , she plays the shrunken Vietnamese activist Ngoc Lan, who shows lead actor Matt Damon the dark side of a futuristic miniature world. This achievement earned her a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actress in 2018 .

Hong Chau lives in Los Angeles . In 2018 she was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which awards the Oscars every year.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Hollywood's Next Big Thing: 'Downsizing' Breakout Hong Chau on Asian Typecasting and Working With Matt Damon" . In: The Hollywood Reporter . Accessed September 16, 2017.
  2. ^ A b c "Actress Hong Chau brings New Orleans background to role as 'Treme's' Linh" . In: NOLA.com . Accessed August 30, 2017.
  3. ^ "Toronto: 'Downsizing' Star Says Asian Typecasting 'Pushed Aside' Refugee Parents" . In: The Hollywood Reporter . Accessed September 16, 2017.
  4. ↑ "'Downsizing' Review" . In: Hollywood Reporter . Accessed August 30, 2017.
  5. ^ "'Downsizing' Review: Matt Damon Gets Small in Alexander Payne's Comedy" . In: Variety . Accessed August 30, 2017.
  6. ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Chau, Hong
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Thailand