![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: Anaheim, CA Biography:A first-generation Californian, "Rosalind Chao"'s parents ran a successful restaurant near Disneyland. It was Chao's father who encouraged her to audition for her first acting role on the early-'70s TV sitcom Here's Lucy. Enrolling in the communications department at U.S.C., Chao hoped to go into broadcasting, but returned to acting after a disillusioning year at the CBS-owned radio station in Hollywood. Remembering her work on an episode of the 1972 TV series "Anna and the King", producer "Burt Metcalfe" hired Chao to portray Soon-Lee, the Korean war bride of Corporal Klinger ("Jamie Farr"), in the climactic episodes of the long-running "M*A*S*H". She would repeat this role in the short-lived (1983-1984) spin-off series After M*A*S*H. Chao has also been seen as Miss Chung on Diff'rent Strokes (1982-1983) and Keiko O'Brien, the wife of transport chief Miles O'Brien ("Colm Meaney") in "Star Trek: The... Full Biography
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