Rae Dawn Chong is a Canadian-American actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Quest for Fire, The Color Purple, Commando, and Time Runner. She has become a naturalized United States citizen.
Nathan Ulrich (m. 2011), C. Thomas Howell (m. 1989–1990), Owen Baylis (m. ?–1982)
Children
Morgan Baylis
Parents
Tommy Chong, Maxine Sneed
Siblings
Robbi Chong, Marcus Chong, Precious Chong, Paris Chong, Gilbran Chong
Nicknames
Чонг, Рэй Дон
Awards
Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Movies
Commando, Quest for Fire, The Color Purple, Beat Street, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, American Flyers, Soul Man, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Fear City, Choose Me, The Squeeze, Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers, The Borrower, Far Out Man, The Principal, Crying Freeman, When the Party's Over,...
TV Shows
Mysterious Ways, Wild Card, Charity Jam
Star Sign
Pisces
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Quote
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Whoopi Goldberg is a blazing trail for black women - for just black anything to be successful. Still, I often ask myself if I have to be a 30-year-old ex-junkie who lived in Berkeley and did stand-up comedy in Germany, before I can get some respect.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.
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Fact
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Is married, the mother of two sons, and divides her time between Vancouver, B.C. (where she lives) and Los Angeles, California (where she works). [November 2003]
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Mentioned in the Alice In Chains song "Love Song".
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An active volunteer for many charities, strongly supporting Habitat for Humanity and Byron Katie's work with inmates in prisons.
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Discovered Chris Pratt (who starred on the WB's Everwood (2002)) while he was a waiter at a restaurant in Hawaii where she was eating dinner one evening.
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Has a son, Morgan.
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Rae's paternal grandfather, Stanley Chong, was Chinese, and Rae's paternal grandmother, Lorna Jean Gilchrist, was of Scots-Irish descent. Rae's maternal grandparents, Napoleon Sneed and Willa Carothers, were both the children of African-American immigrants to Canada (their families were from the American South).
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Subject of Stephen Lynch's song, RDC (Opie's Lament).
Was going to play Willis's girlfriend on Diff'rent Strokes (1978), but producers thought that she wasn't ethnic looking enough and cast Janet Jackson instead.
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