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American actress

Rosalind Chao is an American actress, best known for playing Soon Lee Klinger in the mid 1980s CBS show AfterMASH, 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, and Dr. Kim on The O. C. in 2003. She also played Hua Li, Mulan's mother, in the live action 2020 remake of Mulan.

Rosalind Chao was born in Anaheim, California. 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 from 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. and contemplated pursuing journalism as a career.

Chao's 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, she played the daughter of a laundry owner (played by James Hong) on a 1970 episode of Here's Lucy, "Lucy the Laundress". Deciding not to pursue acting, Chao enrolled in the communications department at the University of Southern California where she earned her degree in journalism. However, after a year as a radio newswriting intern at the CBS owned Hollywood radio station KNX, which aired on February 28, 1983, and was the most watched U. S. sitcom television episode of all time as of 2021. Chao repeated the role in the M*A*S*H sequel, 1983's AfterMASH, her first role billed at co star status. Chao 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 from 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 2019, she was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, citing her contributions to the critically acclaimed films The Joy Luck Club and I Am Sam.

Chao met her husband Simon Templeman while they were working in theatre at the Mark Taper Forum. They have a son and a daughter.

YearFilmRoleNotes1980The Big BrawlMae1981Spider Man: The Dragon's ChallengeEmily Chan1981An Eye for an EyeLinda Chen1983Going BerserkKung Fu Girl1987Slam DanceMrs. BellThe Tribulations of a Chinese GentlemanLianhua1988White GhostThi Hau1990DenialTerryThousand Pieces of GoldLalu Nathoy/Polly Bemis1992Memoirs of an Invisible ManCathy DiTolla1993The Joy Luck ClubRose1994NorthChinese MomLove AffairLee1997The End of ViolenceClaire1998What Dreams May ComeLeona2000Enemies of LaughterCarla2001The Man from Elysian FieldsFemale CustomerImpostorNewscasterUncreditedI Am SamLily2003Freaky FridayPei Pei2005Life of the PartyMei LinJust like HeavenFran2007NankingChang Yu Zheng2009The Rising TideNarrator2012Knife FightKate Focus Group Moderator2015Stockholm, PennsylvaniaDr. Andrews2017Tragedy GirlsMayor Campbell2019Plus OneAngelaThe LaundromatGu Kailai2020MulanHua LiMagic CampLorraineUncredited2021Together TogetherDr. AndrewsThe StarlingFawn 2024SacramentoTBAPost production

YearFilmRoleNotes 1970 Here's Lucy Linda Wong 1 episode1989Jake and the FatmanElaine NakasoneEpisode: "The Way You Look Tonight"1990Drug Wars: The Camarena StoryThanh Steinmetz3 episodesAgainst the LawToy FengEpisode: "Pilot"1991ThirtysomethingWilla CamdenEpisode: "California"1991–92Star Trek: The Next GenerationKeiko O'BrienRecurring role (8 episodes)Recurring role (3 episodes)Once and AgainTami SeitzEpisode: "Pictures"2002Dharma & GregPatriciaEpisode: "Tuesday's Child"MDsAngela YuanEpisode: "R. I. P."2003–06The O. C. Dr. KimRecurring role (6 episodes) 2023–2024 Sweet Tooth Mrs. Zhang Guest season 2; Main season 3 2024 3 Body Problem Ye Wenjie