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Rae Dawn Chong (born February 28, 1961) is a Canadian-born American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress.

g, a U.S. citizen, was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong
Tommy Chong

Thomas "Tommy" B. Kin Chong is a Canada comedian, actor and musician who is well-known for his stereotypical portrayals of hippie-era stoners. He is most widely known for his involvement in the Cannabis -themed Cheech & Chong comedy movies with Cheech Marin, as well as playing the character Leo Chingkwake on FOX's That '70s Show....
, a comedian, actor, writer and director. Chong's father is of Chinese
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 and Scots-Irish ancestry and her mother is of African
Black Canadian

Black Canadians, Caribbean Canadians and African Canadians are designations used for people of Black people African descent who reside in Canada....
 and Cherokee
Cherokee

The Cherokee are a Native Americans in the United States people orginally from the Southeastern United States . They are linguistically connected to speakers of the Iroquoian language....
 descent. Her sister Robbi Chong
Robbi Chong

Robbi Lynn Chong is a Canada actress and former Model .Chong was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong, a comedian, actor, writer and director....
 is a model and actress.

Chong is known for appearing in the films Quest for Fire
Quest for Fire (film)

----Quest for Fire is a 1981 in film film about the importance of fire in human, and pre-human life, 80,000 years ago. It is based on the 1911 in literature French novel by J.-H....
 (1981), The Color Purple
The Color Purple (film)

The Color Purple is a 1985 in film drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the eighth film directed by Spielberg and is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple by Alice Walker....
 (1985), Choose Me
Choose Me

Choose Me is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States comedy-drama film directed and written by Alan Rudolph. It was rated MPAA rating system by the Motion Picture Association of America....
 (1984), Beat Street
Beat Street

Beat Street is a 1984 in film mainstream hip hop dramatic feature film, and the third following Wild Style and Breakin. It is set in New York City during the rise of hip hop culture in the early 1980s....
 (1984), Commando
Commando (film)

Commando is a 1985 in film Cinema of the United States action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film's use of humor in an action film context became a distinctive element in Schwarzenegger's later roles....
 (1985), Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers

Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers is the sixth feature-length film starring the comedy duo Cheech and Chong. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong star as the two brothers in a parody of various film adaptations of the classic Alexandre Dumas, p?re novel, The Corsican Brothers....
 (1984), and Far Out Man
Far Out Man

Far Out Man was a 1990 comedy film written, directed by and starring Tommy Chong. It was filmed in Los Angeles, California, USA. Cinetel Films produced the movie and it was distributed in USA theaters by New Line Cinema, Sony Video , Platinum Disc , and RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video ....
 (1990), in the latter two appearing with her father.






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Rae Dawn Chong (born February 28, 1961) is a Canadian-born American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 actress.

Biography

Chong, a U.S. citizen, was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong
Tommy Chong

Thomas "Tommy" B. Kin Chong is a Canada comedian, actor and musician who is well-known for his stereotypical portrayals of hippie-era stoners. He is most widely known for his involvement in the Cannabis -themed Cheech & Chong comedy movies with Cheech Marin, as well as playing the character Leo Chingkwake on FOX's That '70s Show....
, a comedian, actor, writer and director. Chong's father is of Chinese
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 and Scots-Irish ancestry and her mother is of African
Black Canadian

Black Canadians, Caribbean Canadians and African Canadians are designations used for people of Black people African descent who reside in Canada....
 and Cherokee
Cherokee

The Cherokee are a Native Americans in the United States people orginally from the Southeastern United States . They are linguistically connected to speakers of the Iroquoian language....
 descent. Her sister Robbi Chong
Robbi Chong

Robbi Lynn Chong is a Canada actress and former Model .Chong was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong, a comedian, actor, writer and director....
 is a model and actress.

Chong is known for appearing in the films Quest for Fire
Quest for Fire (film)

----Quest for Fire is a 1981 in film film about the importance of fire in human, and pre-human life, 80,000 years ago. It is based on the 1911 in literature French novel by J.-H....
 (1981), The Color Purple
The Color Purple (film)

The Color Purple is a 1985 in film drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the eighth film directed by Spielberg and is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple by Alice Walker....
 (1985), Choose Me
Choose Me

Choose Me is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States comedy-drama film directed and written by Alan Rudolph. It was rated MPAA rating system by the Motion Picture Association of America....
 (1984), Beat Street
Beat Street

Beat Street is a 1984 in film mainstream hip hop dramatic feature film, and the third following Wild Style and Breakin. It is set in New York City during the rise of hip hop culture in the early 1980s....
 (1984), Commando
Commando (film)

Commando is a 1985 in film Cinema of the United States action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film's use of humor in an action film context became a distinctive element in Schwarzenegger's later roles....
 (1985), Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers

Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers is the sixth feature-length film starring the comedy duo Cheech and Chong. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong star as the two brothers in a parody of various film adaptations of the classic Alexandre Dumas, p?re novel, The Corsican Brothers....
 (1984), and Far Out Man
Far Out Man

Far Out Man was a 1990 comedy film written, directed by and starring Tommy Chong. It was filmed in Los Angeles, California, USA. Cinetel Films produced the movie and it was distributed in USA theaters by New Line Cinema, Sony Video , Platinum Disc , and RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video ....
 (1990), in the latter two appearing with her father. Chong won the Genie Award
Genie Award

Genie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. The awards were originally named the Canadian Film Awards which ran from 1949 to 1979 but in 1980 were renamed The Genie Awards....
 for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in 1983 for Quest for Fire
Quest for Fire (film)

----Quest for Fire is a 1981 in film film about the importance of fire in human, and pre-human life, 80,000 years ago. It is based on the 1911 in literature French novel by J.-H....
. Chong saw her most active period in films during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. However she has continued to be active in television acting roles into 2006.

Chong has been married twice and has one son named Morgan. Her second husband was actor C. Thomas Howell
C. Thomas Howell

Christopher Thomas Howell is an American actor. He came to media attention for having a part in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and is best known for having starred in the films The Outsiders and The Hitcher , as well as Soul Man and Red Dawn....
, her co-star in Soul Man. They divorced in 1990.

Comedian Stephen Lynch
Stephen Lynch (musician)

Stephen Andrew Lynch , is an United States stand-up comedian, musician and Tony Award-nominated actor who is known for his songs mocking daily life and popular culture....
 wrote a song about Chong entitled "R.D.C. (Opie's Lament)" on his album A Little Bit Special
A Little Bit Special

A Little Bit Special is the first album recorded by comedian Stephen Lynch . It was recorded at Park West Studios in Brooklyn, New York in 2000....
.

Filmography


Films

  • Quest for Fire
    Quest for Fire (film)

    ----Quest for Fire is a 1981 in film film about the importance of fire in human, and pre-human life, 80,000 years ago. It is based on the 1911 in literature French novel by J.-H....
     (1981)
  • Choose Me
    Choose Me

    Choose Me is a 1984 in film Cinema of the United States comedy-drama film directed and written by Alan Rudolph. It was rated MPAA rating system by the Motion Picture Association of America....
     (1984)
  • Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
    Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers

    Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers is the sixth feature-length film starring the comedy duo Cheech and Chong. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong star as the two brothers in a parody of various film adaptations of the classic Alexandre Dumas, p?re novel, The Corsican Brothers....
     (1984)
  • Beat Street
    Beat Street

    Beat Street is a 1984 in film mainstream hip hop dramatic feature film, and the third following Wild Style and Breakin. It is set in New York City during the rise of hip hop culture in the early 1980s....
     (1984)
  • Fear City
    Fear City

    Fear City is an American action-thriller from 1984 directed by Abel Ferrara. The lead role is played by Tom Berenger....
     (1984)
  • City Limits
    City limits

    ----The term city limits refers to the defined boundary of a city....
     (1985)
  • American Flyers
    American Flyers

    American Flyers is a 1985 in film film starring Kevin Costner, David Marshall Grant, Rae Dawn Chong, Alexandra Paul and Janice Rule about bicycle racing....
     (1985)
  • Commando
    Commando (film)

    Commando is a 1985 in film Cinema of the United States action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film's use of humor in an action film context became a distinctive element in Schwarzenegger's later roles....
     (1985)
  • The Color Purple
    The Color Purple (film)

    The Color Purple is a 1985 in film drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the eighth film directed by Spielberg and is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple by Alice Walker....
     (1985)
  • Soul Man
    Soul Man (film)

    Soul Man is a comedy film made 1986 in film about a man who undergoes racial transformation with pills to qualify for an African-American only scholarship at Harvard Law School....
     (1986)
  • The Squeeze
    The Squeeze (1987 film)

    The Squeeze is a 1987 in film comedy film, starring Michael Keaton. The promotional poster for the movie coincidentally shows both towers of the World Trade Center being destroyed....
     (1987)
  • The Principal
    The Principal

    The Principal is a 1987 film starring James Belushi and Louis Gossett, Jr. It was directed by Christopher Cain and written by Frank Deese....
     (1987)
  • Walking After Midnight (1988)
  • Rude Awakening
    Rude Awakening

    Rude Awakening may refer to:In film:* Rude Awakening , directed by Georges M?li?s* Rude Awakening , directed by Warren Sonbert* Rude Awakening , directed by David Greenwalt and Aaron Russo...
     (1989)
  • Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
    Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

    Tales from the Darkside is a 1990 movie directed by John Harrison based on the anthology television series Tales from the Darkside. The film, shot in anthology style, depicts a kidnapped paperboy who tells three stories of horror to the suburban witch who is preparing to eat him, a la Hansel and Gretel....
     (1990)
  • Far Out Man
    Far Out Man

    Far Out Man was a 1990 comedy film written, directed by and starring Tommy Chong. It was filmed in Los Angeles, California, USA. Cinetel Films produced the movie and it was distributed in USA theaters by New Line Cinema, Sony Video , Platinum Disc , and RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video ....
     (1990)
  • Chaindance
    Chaindance

    Chaindance is a 1990 Canadian drama film....
     (1990)
  • Denial
    Denial (1990 film)

    Denial is a 1990 in film American cinema drama, written and directed by Erin Dignam. The film features Robin Wright as "Sarah," a sometime actress and tall, dark, handsome loner, "Michael" , as lovers, as they were in real life, ....
     (1990)
  • The Borrower
    The Borrower

    The Borrower is a 1991 in film science fiction film / horror film film directed by John McNaughton. It's a B-movie about an alien serial killer, who is sent to Earth to live among humans as a form of penalty....
     (1991)
  • Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991)
  • When the Party's Over (1992)
  • Amazon (1992)
  • Time Runner (1993)
  • Boulevard
    Boulevard (1994 film)

    Boulevard is a 1994 in film crime thriller film starring Rae Dawn Chong and Lou Diamond Phillips....
     (1994)
  • Boca (1994)
  • Power of Attorney
    Power of attorney

    A power of attorney or letter of attorney in common law systems or mandate in Civil law systems is an authorization to act on someone else's behalf in a legal or business matter....
     (1995)
  • Crying Freeman
    Crying Freeman

    is a manga by Kazuo Koike & Ryoichi Ikegami about an assassin who sheds tears after he kills his targets. Crying Freeman follows the titular assassin, a Japanese people man hypnotized and trained by the Chinese mafia to serve as its agent, and covered in a vast and complex dragon tattoo....
     (1995)
  • The Break (1995)
  • Hideaway
    Hideaway

    Hideaway is a novel written by Dean Koontz and published by Random House in 1992. It is a supernatural Thriller centering on an antique dealer named Hatch Harrison who develops a telepathic connection with a serial killer after a car accident leaves him clinically dead for over eighty minutes....
     (1995)
  • Starlight
    Starlight

    Starlight is a common word for the light emitted by stars, more specifically stars other than the Sun; light emitted by the Sun is called sunlight....
     (1996)
  • Mask of Death (1996)
  • Highball
    Highball

    A highball is a type of alcoholic drink.Highball may also refer to:* Highball glass, a drinking vessel* A type of bouncing bomb* A type of Bouldering#Terminology situation...
     (1997)
  • Goodbye America
    Goodbye America

    Goodbye America is a 1997 in film drama film that examines how the closing of the U.S. naval Military base at Subic Bay, Philippines affected the local Philippines community and the U.S....
     (1997)
  • Small Time (1998)
  • Dangerous Attraction (1999)
  • The Visit
    The Visit (2000 film)

    The Visit is the story of Alex Waters , a dying young man serving out a prison sentence for a rape he says he didn't commit. The movie follows Alex, his family, and his girlfriend as they try to come to an emotional resolution....
     (2000)
  • Constellation
    Constellation (film)

    Constellation is a film that had a limited release in 2007 in film after debuting in several film festivals....
     (2005)
  • Force of Impact (2006)


TV Series

  • Top of the Hill
    Top of the Hill

    Top of the Hill was a political television drama aired by CBS as part of its 1989-90 United States network television schedule.Top of the Hill starred William Katt as United States House of Representatives Thomas Bell, Jr., son of a long-time Congressman who had been forced to resign his seat due to health issues but who remained on...
     (1980)
  • Badge of the Assassin (1985)
  • Curiosity Kills (1990)
  • Nitecap (1992)
  • Melrose Place
    Melrose Place

    Melrose Place is an American primetime soap opera that ran between 1992 and 1999, created by Darren Star for the FOX network and executive produced by Aaron Spelling for Spelling Television....
     (1992-1993)
  • Father & Son: Dangerous Relations (1993)
  • Highlander: The Series
    Highlander: The Series

    Highlander: The Series is an English language fantasy/sci-fi television series featuring Duncan MacLeod , of the Scotland Clan MacLeod, as the Scottish Highlands of the title....
     (1996)
  • Valentine's Day
    Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the English-speaking countries, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending greeting card, Valentine's Day flowers, or offering confectionery....
     (1998)
  • Mysterious Ways (2000-2002)
  • Wild Card
    Wild Card (TV series)

    Wild Card, aka Zoe Busiek: Wild Card, is a Canada Global Television Network television series starring Joely Fisher. It was broadcast in the United States on Lifetime_Television and can now be seen on the Lifetime_Real_Women network....
     (2003)
  • Deadly Skies
    Deadly Skies

    Deadly Skies is a 2005 joint American/Canadian sci-fi television film starring Antonio Sabato, Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Dominic Zamprogna, Michael Boisvert, Rob LaBelle and Michael Moriarty....
     (2005)
  • That's So Raven
    That's So Raven

    That's So Raven is an American television situation comedy. The show premiered on Disney Channel on January 17, 2003, and ended on November 10, 2007....
     (2007)


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