{"id":8795,"count":1,"description":"\u200bRosalind Chao (born September 23, 1959) is an American actress of Chinese heritage. Chao's most notable roles are as South Korean refugee Soon-Lee Klinger on CBS' AfterMASH, as Keiko O'Brien on both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Dr. Kim on\u00a0The O.C., Rose Hsu Jordan in The Joy Luck Club (1993), and Hua Li, Mulan\u2019s mother, in the live-action version of\u00a0Mulan (2020). Chao is married to voice actor Simon Templeman; they have 2 children.\n\nShe began acting at the age of five in a California-based\u00a0Peking opera\u00a0traveling company at the instigation of her parents who were already heavily involved, and during the summers they sent her to\u00a0Taiwan\u00a0to further develop her acting skills. As a child, she played the daughter of a laundry owner (played by\u00a0James Hong) on the 1970 episode of\u00a0Here's Lucy\u00a0entitled \"Lucy the Laundress\".\n\nFor some time, Chao worked at\u00a0Disneyland\u00a0as an international\u00a0tour guide.\n\nDeciding not to pursue acting, Chao enrolled in the communications department at the\u00a0University of Southern California\u00a0where she earned her degree in journalism. However, after spending a year as a radio newswriting\u00a0intern\u00a0at the CBS-owned Hollywood radio station\u00a0KNX, she soon returned to acting.\n\nHer big break was with the role of Soon-Lee, a South Korean refugee, in the final episodes of the TV series\u00a0M*A*S*H.\u00a0Soon-Lee\u00a0married\u00a0longtime starring character Maxwell Klinger\u00a0(Jamie Farr) in the series finale \"Goodbye, Farewell and Amen\", the\u00a0most-watched U.S. sitcom television episode of all time\u00a0as of 2021. Chao continued playing the character in the\u00a0M*A*S*H\u00a0sequel series:\u00a0AfterMASH (1983), her first role billed at co-starring status.\n\nChao regularly portrayed the Japanese exo-botanist\u00a0Keiko Ishikawa O'Brien\u00a0on both\u00a0Star Trek: The Next Generation\u00a0and\u00a0Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. She was also originally considered for the part of\u00a0Enterprise\u00a0security chief\u00a0Tasha Yar.\n\nShe's had recurring roles as Miss Chung on season 5 of Diff'rent Strokes, Li Ying on season 5 of Falcon Crest, Dr. Judith Lin on Citizen Baines, Dr. Kim on seasons 1 & 3 of The O.C., Pastor Jin on Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment B, Mrs. Wu on Sin City Saints, Caroline on Better Things, and Tina Tchen on The First Lady.\n\nShe's guest starred on numerous shows including This is Us, Code Black, The Catch, black-ish, The OA, Hawaii Five-O, Castle, Forever, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Bones, The Event, CSI, Private Practice, Grey's Anatomy, According to Jim, Six Feet Under, The Parkers, Monk, Without a Trace, Dharma & Greg, Once and Again, The West Wing, Family Law, ER, Brimstone, Chicago Hope, Murder She Wrote, thirty something, Jake & the Fatman, Miami Vice, Beauty and the Beast (1988), The A-Team, St. Elsewhere, Riptide, M*A*S*H,One Day at a Time (1981), Emergency!, The Incredible Hulk (1978), Here's Lucy, and more.\n\nShe has starred in several movies including The Joy Luck Club, North (1994), What Dreams May Come, Impostor, I Am Sam, Freaky Friday (2003), Just Like Heaven, Mulan (2020) as Mulan\u2019s mother, Together Together, and The Starling.\n\nIn 2019, Chao was invited to join the\u00a0Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences citing her contributions to critically acclaimed films\u00a0The Joy Luck Club and\u00a0I Am Sam.","link":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/actor\/rosalind-chao\/","name":"Rosalind Chao","slug":"rosalind-chao","taxonomy":"actor","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actor\/8795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actor"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/actor"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/movie?actor=8795"},{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?actor=8795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}