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Chinese American actress (born 1939)

Nancy Kwan Ka shen (; born May 19, 1939) is a Chinese American actress. In addition to her personality and looks, her career benefited from Hollywood's casting of more Asian roles in the 1960s, especially in comedies. She was considered an Eastern sex symbol in the 1960s.

Born in Hong Kong on May 19, 1939, and growing up in Kowloon Tong, Kwan is the Eurasian daughter of Kwan Wing hong, a Cantonese architect and Marquita Scott, a European model of English and Scottish ancestry. Kwan did not sing the songs in the musical film; the vocals for Linda Low were performed by B. J. Baker. Comparing Suzie Wong and Flower Drum Song, she found the latter much harder because the girl she played was "more go getter". Her prior ballet education provided a strong foundation for her role in Flower Drum Song, where she had much space to dance.#tag:ref|The film's three building primary set cost $310,000, spanning 51,000 square feet. Modeled after Grant Avenue in Chinatown, San Francisco, it was up to that point the biggest, most expensive Hollywood sound stage ever designed. As a Hollywood icon, Kwan lived in a house atop Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. She commuted in a white British sports car and danced to Latin verses. She enjoyed listening to Johnny Mathis records and reading Chinese history texts. Designed by London hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, Kwan's bob cut in the film drew widespread media attention for the "severe geometry of her new hairstyle". Sassoon's signature cut of Kwan's hair was nicknamed "the Kwan cut", "the Kwan bob", or was plainly known as "the Kwan"; photographs of Kwan's new hairstyle appeared in both the American and British editions of Vogue. due to the cultural nature of 1960s America. Ann Lloyd and Graham Fuller wrote in their book The Illustrated Who's Who of the Cinema: "Her Eurasian beauty and impish sense of humor could not sustain her stardom". Her later films were marked by multifarious parts, In December 1963, Pock was constructing a luxury hotel in the Tyrolean Alps. During Christmas of that year, Nancy Kwan visited the location and was able to participate in several pre 1964 Winter Olympics events despite having been very occupied with movies. Her contract with film production company Seven Arts led her to travel around the world to film movies. She found the separation from her son, Bernie, who was not yet a year old, difficult. She said, "He's coming into a time when he's beginning to assert his personality." Fair skinned and blue eyed, Bernie had his father's appearance.#tag:ref|The energetic nature of Kwan's character Tamahine either causes amazement or captivation in her family members. With an irreverent air about clothes, Tamahine, an instructor at Hallow school, is welcomed as a guest in the headmaster's dwelling. While at the school, she takes her clothes off with no sense of self awareness; she has the same attitude as when she stripped off her clothes in her homeland while entering the ocean. Adorned in only a bra and panties, she tosses flowers to her students from her boudoir. Her "high jinks" cause all the male students and the headmaster to become infatuated with her. The more conservative teachers are angered by Tamahine's antics. In Kwan's role in the film, she fought the character played by Sharon Tate by throwing a flying kick. Her martial arts move was based not on karate training, but on her dance foundation. Author Darrell Y. Hamamoto noted that this "ironically" twisted Kwan's "dragon lady role" through its underscoring the replacement of Kung Fu with Western dance moves. She married Hollywood screenwriter David Giler in July 1970 in a civil ceremony in Carson City, Nevada. The marriage was Kwan's second and Giler's first. They divorced in 1971. That year, Kwan returned to Hong Kong with her son because her father was sick. She initially intended to remain for one year to assist him, but ultimately remained for about seven years. She did not stop her work, starring as Dr. Sue in the film Wonder Women (1973). While in Hong Kong, Kwan founded a production company, where she played characters in the television series Fantasy Island, Knots Landing and Trapper John, M. D Like her first husband Peter Pock, as well as her former fiancé Maximilian Schell, Meisel was Austrian. “I have my Austrian karma,” she said in a 2021 interview. “I think it's lifetime." In a 1993 interview with the St. Petersburg Times, Kwan remarked that her son Bernie was frequently called a "blond, blue eyed Chinese" because he could speak the language fluently. In 1979, the two returned to the United States because Kwan wanted him to finish his schooling there. Bernie was an actor, a martial artist, and a stunt performer. Bates said their stunt was the "highest 'double drop' ever attempted". Kwan sporadically records audiobooks. In 2011, she recorded an audiobook for the 1989 memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip with Jay Wurts. San Francisco Chronicles Patricia Holt praised Kwan's intonation in her delivery, writing that "Kwan's faint Asian accent and careful pronunciation of Vietnamese words make Hayslip's weaving of her past and present lives a riveting experience". In 1993, Kwan played Gussie Yang, a "tough talking, soft hearted Hong Kong restaurateur", in the fictional Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. a character based on Seattle restaurateur and political leader Ruby Chow Variety reviewer Julio Martinez praised Kwan for her ability to "flo[w] easily between haughty sophistication and girlish insecurity". In 1994, an article in the South China Morning Post said that she preserved her "dancer's figure" through the Chinese martial art tai chi and frequent dance sessions. In 1996, when he was 33, Kwan's son, Bernie, died after contracting AIDS from his girlfriend whom Kwan had cautioned him to avoid. Nancy Kwan has appeared on television commercials even into the 1990s and appeared in "late night infomercials" as the spokesperson for the cosmetic "Oriental Pearl Cream". Kwan has been involved in philanthropy for AIDS awareness. In 1997, she published A Celebration of Life – Memories of My Son, a book about her son who died after being infected by HIV. She gave profits from both the book and a movie she created about him to supporting the study of AIDS and the promotion of AIDS awareness. Kwan told The Kansas City Star in 2007 that she did not consider retiring, leads to trouble. Retirees, she professed, frequently find themselves with nothing to do because they have not readied themselves for it. Kwan said, "I hope I'm working until the day I die. If work is a pleasure, why not?" Kwan appeared in Arthur Dong's 2007 documentary Hollywood Chinese, where other Chinese dignitaries and she discussed the past accomplishments and the impending plight of Chinese people in the film industry. Kwan and her husband Norbert Meisel write and direct films about Asian Americans. Kwan believes that Asians are not cast in enough films and TV shows. Meisel and she resolved to create their own scripts and films about Asian characters. In Sunshine, Rachel is supported by Kwan, the manager of a jazz club, who knows a mystery about her.#tag:ref|Clapp, a professor of urbanism who has travelled frequently to teach in Hong Kong, is from California. The novel's title is a tribute to Wong's Chinese Pidgin English. Main character Marco Podesta is, like Clapp, an urbanism professor. His visit to Hong Kong coincides with the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997. He meets and becomes infatuated with a Chinese girl, Lily. Podesta, while strolling through Sheung Wan, discovers a painting featured in a gallery window. The painting's subject, a Chinese girl, wears a ponytail and cheongsam. To Podesta, she is Suzie Wong. He becomes infatuated with her and meets the painting's artist, Robert Lomax, who is either Suzie Wongs male lead or an insane man. Author Clapp was inspired to write the novel when he was traveling on the Star Ferry in 2000 and saw from behind the flowing ponytail of a young lady. He said, "Now, I know there are thousands of women in Hong Kong with ponytails, but somehow the film started rolling in my head and I started to write notes."

Year Title Role Notes1960Suzie Wong1961Flower Drum SongLinda Low1962Tessa1963TamahineTamahine1964Honeymoon HotelLynn Jenley1964Fate Is the HunterSally Fraser1965Marjorie Lee Filmed in 19631966Lt. Robin Crusoe, U. S. N. Wednesday1966Drop Dead DarlingBabyAKA, Arrivederci, Baby!1966Mong fu sekMei ChingShort1967TinaAKA, The Corrupt Ones1968Nobody's PerfectTomiko Momoyama1968Wen Yurang1969Revel Drue1970Robin1971Karioka etchos de America1973Wonder WomenDr. Tsu1974Bu zai you chun tian1974Leni1975Fortress in the SunMaria1975SupercockYuki Chan1975That Lady from PekingSue Tenchan1976Project KillLee Su1978Out of the DarknessLeslieAKA, Night Creature1979Streets of Hong KongMei Mei1982Angkor: Cambodia ExpressSue1985Walking the EdgeChristine Holloway1988Keys to FreedomDr. Lao1989Night ChildrenDiane1990Cold Dog SoupMadame Chang1993Dragon: The Bruce Lee StoryGussie Yang19951995RebelliousJoni1996For Life or DeathLing Li1998Mr. P's Dancing Sushi BarMitsuko McFee2005Murder on the Yellow Brick RoadNatalie Chung2006Ray of SunshineLilly2016Paint It BlackMargaret2016Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie MingGloria (voice)

Year Title Role Notes1968–69Hawaii Five ORosemary Quong"Pilot", "Cocoon: Parts 1 & 2"1974Kung FuMayli Ho"The Cenotaph: Parts 1 & 2"1976HadleighKai Yin"Hong Kong Rock"1978Fantasy IslandAdela"The Appointment/Mr. Tattoo"1982Chicago StoryHoanh Anh"Not Quite Paradise: Parts 1 & 2"1983Noriko SakuraTV film1984Trapper John, M. D. Dr. Lois Miyoshiro"This Gland Is Your Gland"1984Partners in CrimeAnna Chen"Duke"1984Knots LandingBeverly Mikuriya"Hanging Fire"1985Blade in Hong KongLilyTV film1986Lin Wu"The Point of No Return"1988Noble HouseClaudia ChenTV miniseries1990Miracle LandingC. B. LansingTV film1990BabiesDr. LiuTV film2000ERMrs. Chen"Rescue Me"