
Birthday
1979/06/25 (46 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Thailand
Also know as
هونگ چائو
Hong Chau (born June 25, 1979) is an American actress. She has received several award nominations for her film roles as Ngoc Lan Tran in Downsizing (2017) and as Liz, a nurse, in The Whale (2022), including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter. Chau was born to Vietnamese parents who lived in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing Vietnam in the late 1970s. A Vietnamese Catholic church in New Orleans sponsored Chau and her family to move to the United ...Read more

(2024) The Instigators
as Dr. Donna Rivera

(2023) Asteroid City
as Polly

(2014) Inherent Vice
as Jade

(2024) Kinds of Kindness
as Sarah / Sharon / Aka
(2026) The Sheep Detectives
as Beth Pennock

(2017) Downsizing
as Ngoc Lan Tran

(2018) Duck Butter
as Glow

(2020) Artemis Fowl
as Opal Koboi (uncredited)

(2020) Driveways
as Kathy

(2019) American Woman
as Jenny

(2014) Market Hours
as Angela

(2022) The Whale
as Liz

(2023) Showing Up
as Jo

(2022) The Menu
as Elsa

(2026) "Wuthering Heights"
as Nelly Dean

(2019) Watchmen
as Lady Trieu

(2014) Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self

(2000) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Julie Blanch

(2023) The Night Agent
as Diane Farr

(2015) The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest

(2010) $#*! My Dad Says
as DJ

(2018) Homecoming
as Audrey Temple

(2003) NCIS
as FBI Lab Tech Molly Choi

(2014) BoJack Horseman
as Pickles Aplenty (voice)

(2005) How I Met Your Mother
as Cook Pu

(2005) American Dad!
as Korean Spy (voice)

(2023) Poker Face
as Marge

(2018) Forever
as Sarah

(2010) Good Luck Charlie
as Theresa

(2007) The Sarah Silverman Program.
as Asian Masseuse

(2017) Big Little Lies
as Jackie

(2014) Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self

(2014) A to Z
as Lora

(2010) Treme
as Linh