Rosalind Chao
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| Rosalind Chao | |
 Rosalind Chao as Keiko O'Brien on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | |
| Born | September 23, 1957 Anaheim, California |
| Notable roles | Keiko O'Brien |
Rosalind Chao or Chao Jyalin (趙家玲 Pinyin: Zhào Jiālín) (born September 23, 1964<ref>Although various sources give her birthday as either September 23 or September 29 in 1956, 1957, 1959, or 1964, California birth records have her born on September 23, 1964.</ref>) is a Chinese American actress, born in Anaheim, California.
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[edit] Early life
Her parents were amateurs in Beijing opera singing, and Rosalind performed in some small roles of operas as a girl. She started shooting television commercials at age 7. After she graduated from Pomona College, her TV career began.
[edit] Career
Chao played Keiko O'Brien (maiden name Ishikawa), a Japanese exo-botanist, in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Keiko is the founder and teacher of a school on DS9's promenade, the wife of engineer Miles O'Brien, and a mother of two.
Chao also appeared in both the television series M*A*S*H and its spinoff, AfterMASH. She first appeared in M*A*S*H during the last several episodes of the series as Soon-Lee, a Korean woman who fell in love and married Maxwell Klinger. In AfterMASH, she and Klinger moved to America where Klinger went to work for his former Commanding Officer, Colonel Potter.
Chao plays one of the eight main characters in The Joy Luck Club. Perhaps her greatest role to date was as Lalu in the 1991 film A Thousand Pieces of Gold, the story of a determined Chinese immigrant woman in the Old West, which co-starred Chris Cooper.
She also has a minor role in What Dreams May Come, where she played flight attendant Leona, the physical manifestation of the protagonist's dead daughter.
Chao has also guest-starred in The West Wing as Jane Gentry, and several episodes of The O.C. as Dr. Kim. Chao also guest starred as Li Kiem in Tour of Duty, Season 1 Episode 16, "Gray-Brown Odyssey".
[edit] Personal life
Rosalind Chao is married to actor Simon Templeman. They have a son and a daughter.
[edit] Notes
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Birth year 1957.
[edit] External links
- Rosalind Chao at the Internet Movie Database
- Rosalind Chao article at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek wiki.
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| NAME | Chao, Rosalind |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chao Jyalin; Zhao Jialin |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | American actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957-09-23 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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