Age: 47
female
Hong Chau (born June 25, 1979) is an American actress. She has received several award nominations for her film roles as Ngoc Lan Tran in Downsizing (2017) and as Liz, a nurse, in The Whale (2022), including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter. Chau was born to Vietnamese parents who lived in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing Vietnam in the late 1970s. A Vietnamese Catholic church in New Orleans sponsored Chau and her family to move to the United States. She grew up in New Orleans and majored in film studies at Boston University College of Communication before pursuing an acting career. She appeared in the TV series Treme (2010–2013) and the film Inherent Vice (2014). She went on to have supporting roles in the HBO limited series Watchmen (2019) and the Prime Video series Homecoming (2018–2020). Chau has also played leading roles in the 2019 films Driveways and American Woman and further supporting roles in the 2022 film The Menu and the 2023 Netflix series The Night Agent. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hong Chau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Hong Chau
Dr. Tamara Lawrence
for Dr. Tamara Lawrence in The Chrysalis
Suggested by ianhimmelstein77
The play explores the meanings of the body and mind in today's world. The miraculouspossibilities offered by technological development are present in the work, but not at its centre. The play'smost important themes are related to overcoming grief, questions of identity and authenticityin the present and in our near future. Kristi and Tom have been dreaming of a baby for some time. Now this dream is coming true – Kristi is pregnant. Then Kristi gets into a car accident and dies, but the baby survives. At the same time as Kristi's death certificate, Tom receives the information that the woman had recorded her consciousness. This consciousness is handed over to Tom in the form of a small chip. It would be possible to activate the chip and allow Tom to communicate with Kristi. So Tom activated the chip. Their communication feels real. Kristi jokes, sings to their baby, talks to Tom. The man longs for Kristi's physical and mental presence in every cell of his body, and the grief is too overwhelming. Tom has the opportunity to transfer hisdigitized consciousness to a surrogate body. Tom chooses a new body for Kristi, which comes back to life. They are now trying to pick up where Kristi's lifeleft off.
