Rosalind Chao

Rosalind Chao (Chinese: 趙家玲; born September 23, 1957) is an American actress. 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. Kim on The O.C. in 2003. She also played Hua Li, Mulan’s mother, in the live-action 2020 remake of Mulan.

Chao was born in Anaheim, California. 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.[3][4] She attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, and later USC, graduating in 1978