Rosalind Chao Filmography |
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 The Joy Luck Club (1993) - Starring as Rose Hsu Jordan |
| Four older women, all Chinese immigrants living in San Francisco, meet regularly to play mah-jong, eat, and tell stories. Each of these women have adult Chinese-American daughters. The film reveals the hidden pasts of the older women and explores cultural conflict and the relationships between mothers and daughters. The film is structured as a series of vignettes told from the perspectives of the different women. |
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| Chicago Hope (1995) - Starring as Allison Granger in "Rise from the Dead" |
In this television medical drama, Surgeons Jeffrey Geiger and Aaron Shutte battle valiantly for their patients, often coming into conflict with the hospital administration, run by Dr. Phillip Watters. Their cases are usually ethically complex, highly sensationalistic, and very melodramatic.
In this episode, Diane helps her friend Allison harvest sperm, Aaron and Camille go through with their divorce. Billy takes Danny to task over his medical mistreatment of a mentally unstable woman. Jeffrey and Kate put their differences aside over her cost cutting proposals long enough to save a young pre-med students life. Alicia is christened. |
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| What Dreams May Come (1998) - Starring as Leona |
Doctor Chris Nielson (Robin Williams) meets his true soul mate Annie (Annabella Sciorra), marries her and has two children. The children die in a car accident, and Chris dies four years after that. Ending up in heaven, he is guided by friendly guardian angel Albert (Cuba Gooding Jr.) through the afterlife, and he is reunited with his dog and children. But when he finds out his wife had committed suicide, he desperately searches for her spirit, journeying through Heaven and Hell along the way. |
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| Brimstone (1998) (TV) - Starring as Nina Chou in "Poem" |
Ezekial Stone, a former cop, killed his wife's rapist and was later killed himself. He is sent to Hell for his crime. However, 113 evil souls have escaped, and the Devil sends him back to Earth to recover them. If Stone can recover all 113, then he'll be given a second chance at life...or so the Devil says.
In this episode, Stone pursues an escapee with the help of a Chinese teacher. The escapee kills young immigrant Chinese women and takes their blood.
- Nina Chou is the teacher that helps Stone. |
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| ER (1999) (TV) - Starring as Dr. Theresa Chow in "Humpty Dumpty" |
ER or "Emergency Room" is about the County General Hospital where doctors and nurses are faced with life-and-death decisions daily. The staff is led by Dr. John Carter, and the chief of staff, Dr. Kerry Weaver. Also included are Nurse Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney) and Dr. Doug Ross (George Clooney).
In this episode, Dr. Dave Malucci becomes a regular. Greene's father gets lost after arriving in Chicago from San Diego. Kovac and Weaver try to save a rape victim. Lucy is reluctant to release the leader of a choir that has been injured in a bus accident and Finch tests a teenager for drugs. |
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The West Wing (2001) (TV)- Starring as Jane Gentry in "The Fall's Gonna Kill You" |
It's about presidential politics of a fictional presidental administration. The show is currently in transition between the administration of President Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet (Martin Sheen) and an unknown prospect, either Congressman Mathew Vincente Santos of Houston, Texas (Jimmy Smits) or Senator Arnold Vinick of California (Alan Alda).
In this episode, White House Counsel Oliver Babbish interviews CJ once she learns of the President's condition. The First Lady learns she may be legally vulnerable. Donna frets over news of a falling satellite. |
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| I Am Sam (2001) - Starring as Lily |
| Sam Dawson (Sean Penn) has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman and a daughter Lucy Diamond (Dakota Fanning). But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison Williams (Michelle Pfeiffer) into taking his case. |
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| Impostor (2002) - Starring as a Newscaster |
| Originally a 30 minute portion for an anthology film, Impostor was retooled into a full length feature film. It's based on the Philip K. Dick short story of the same name. The year is 2079. The earth has been at war with an alien force for over a decade. Spencer Olham (Gary Sinise) is a lauded government scientist whose latest work promises to save the planet. But suddenly he is accused of being an alien spy, and becomes the subject of a nationwide manhunt. Olham must prove his identity to his wife (Madeleine Stowe), and to the secret police in time to help mankind. |
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| Dharma & Greg (2002) (TV) - Starring as Patricia "Tuesday's Child" |
In this sitcom, Greg (Thomas Gibson) is a young attorney from a wealthy family, who meets Dharma (Jenna Elfman), a free-spirited young woman, they get married in Reno on their first date. Their love is growing everyday as they get to know each other but their families, hers is a bunch of hippies and his is composed of snob Republicans, despise each other.
In this episode, a little girl forms an attachment to Dharma and Greg; and Kitty is ordered to perform community service. |
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| Without a Trace (2003) (TV) - Starring as Helen Collins in "Hang on to Me" |
| This is a drama about the Missing Persons Squad of the FBI. Senior agent Jack Malone (Anthony LaPaglia) heads the team, and his squad includes Samantha Spade (Poppy Montgomery), Vivian Johnson (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), Danny Taylor (Enrique Murciano), and Martin Fitzgerald (Eric Close), the newest member of the team. |
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| Monk (2003) (TV) - Starring as Arleen Cassady in "Mr. Monk Goes Back to School" |
Former police detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub), has a photographic memory and the amazing ability to piece together tiny clues, but suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias. Now on psychiatric leave, he's working as a freelance detective.
In this episode, an English teacher falls from the clock tower at Trudy's former high school, and Monk is called in to disprove the suicide theory. The trail of clues leads to a science teacher , and Monk becomes a substitute teacher while trying to solve the case.
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| The O.C. (2003-2006) (TV) - Starring as Doctor Kim in 6 episodes |
The O.C. is about the wealthy ocean-side community of Newport Beach in Orange County, California. Ryan Atwood (Benjamin Mckenzie) is given a place to live by the Cohens and his arrival would change their lives forever.
- Dr. Kim is the Dean of the Harbor High School. She gives Ryan Atwood a chance to enter Harbor if he passes an admission exam, which he does. She persuades Marissa Cooper to continue her role as social chair despite Marissa's tarnished reputation after overdosing on painkillers. She later returns to have a meeting with Kirsten , Sandy and Ryan, after Ryan reads Oliver Trask's files in the file storage room.
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