sitcom television episode of all time as of 2021. Soon-Lee married longtime starring character Maxwell Klinger ( Jamie Farr) in the series finale ' Goodbye, Farewell and Amen', the most-watched U.S. Her big break was with the role of Soon-Lee, a South Korean refugee, in the final episodes of the TV series M*A*S*H. However, after spending a year as a radio newswriting intern at the CBS-owned Hollywood radio station KNX, she soon returned to acting. ĭeciding not to pursue acting, Chao enrolled in the communications department at the University of Southern California where she earned her degree in journalism. Īs a child she played the daughter of a laundry owner (played by James Hong) on the 1970 episode of Here's Lucy entitled 'Lucy the Laundress'. Ĭhao's parents were instrumental in her decision to pursue acting she began at the age of five in a California-based Peking opera traveling company at the instigation of her parents who were already heavily involved, and during the summers they sent her to Taiwan to further develop her acting skills.

Career įor some time, Chao worked at Disneyland as an international tour guide. She attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, and later USC, graduating in 1978. Chao's parents ran a successful pancake restaurant, Chao’s Chinese and American Restaurant, across the street from Disneyland, and employed her there from an early age. Early life Ĭhao was born in Anaheim, California. She also played Hua Li, Mulan’s mother, in the live-action 2020 remake of Mulan. Chao's best-known roles have been 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. Rosalind Chao ( Chinese: 趙家玲 born September 23, 1957) is an American actress. University of Southern California (BA in journalism)

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