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Actress: Commando. Rae Dawn Chong was born February 28, 1961 in Edmonton, Canada. After a few film and television spots, Rae Dawn earned a Genie for her performance in Jean-Jacques Annaud's prehistoric-drama Quest for Fire (1981). She played the young, Ivaka prisoner, Ika.
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Actress: Commando. Rae Dawn Chong was born February 28, 1961 in Edmonton, Canada. After a few film and television spots, Rae Dawn earned a Genie for her performance in Jean-Jacques Annaud's prehistoric-drama Quest for Fire (1981). She played the young, Ivaka prisoner, Ika.
- February 28, 1961
- Who Is Rae Dawn Chong?
- Rae Dawn Chong's Career Slump
- Controversial Comments
Rae Dawn Chong is a Canadian-American actress and the oldest daughter of comedy legend Tommy Chong. Chong made her acting debut at thirteen in 1974 as Greta in the television show Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color. Four years later, Chong would make her feature-length debut at seventeen in 1978’s Stony Island, playing the role of Janetta and d...
Despite the actresses’ prolific work ethic throughout the 1980s, Steve Miner’s mid-80s comedy Soul Man would negatively impact how audiences perceived Chong. Soul Man centers around Mark Watson, a white college-aged student who wants to get into Harvard Law School but can’t because his parents refuse to pay for his tuition. After learning about a s...
As if the controversy surrounding Soul Man wasn’t enough, Chong made headlines in 2013 when she expressed a few choice words for former The Color Purple co-star Oprah Winfrey. In 2013, Chong did an interview for Matty P’s Radio Happy Hour, in which she was eventually asked about her acting career, specifically her work in Commando and The Color Pur...
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Long interview with Rae Dawn Chong about her career, about growing up as the daughter of Tommy Chong, about that time Spike Lee criticized her for not "playing her race" and about racism and sexism in Hollywood.
Biography by AllMovie. The daughter of comedian Tommy Chong, actress Rae Dawn Chong began appearing on Canadian television in her preteen years. Chong's first major TV role was on the popular 1974 sitcom The Wiz Kid of Riverton.
- February 28, 1961
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Chong received some long-overdue good reviews with The Visit in 2000, which co-starred her alongside Hill Harper as a young man dying of AIDS in prison after being wrongly convicted of rape. Chong was cast as childhood friend who still visits Alex after surviving her own traumas, including murder and drug addiction.
Oct 23, 2022 · Rae Dawn Chong plays the part of Florence de Pointe du Lac, Louis’s human mother, who meets an end in tonight’s episode. The actress recently spoke to SciFi Vision in an exclusive interview about working on the series, including the quirks of playing a dead body, researching history in New Orleans, and more.
