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Rosalind Chao

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Rosalind Chao

  • Has gained popularity among Star Trek fans for her long career on two Star Trek series including Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).
  • Turned down the chance to work full-time on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) so that she could spend more time with her family. But, she instead agreed to do recurring roles in episodes each season.
  • Has an action figure modeled after her character Keiko from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).
  • Along with Michael Dorn, Marc Alaimo, Jeffrey Combs, John de Lancie, Jonathan Frakes and Tim Russ, she is one of only seven actors to appear in at least ten different seasons of "Star Trek": Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) Seasons Four through Six and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) Seasons One through Seven.
  • While auditioning for the part of Keiko O'Brien on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), she was up against actress Patti Yasutake, who also auditioned for the role. Rosalind eventually got the role, and Patti got the part of "Nurse Allysa Ogawa" on the same show.
  • Her parents ran a successful restaurant near Disneyland.
  • Must include and mention her appearances in the closing episodes of the epic MASH where she played Soon-Lee, a Korean woman desperately looking for her lost family. Her character is befriended by Max Klinger (Jamie Farr) to help her. The two fall in love and are married. The two episodes are "As Time Goes By" and the series finale episode "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" both 1983, the final year of MASH. This is from the full Cast & Crew listing by IMDB of the MASH Series history record.
  • Has two children with husband Simon Templeman. A son named Roland William Templeman (B. September 1, 1992 in Los Angeles) and a daughter named Isabelle.
  • Her ethnicity is Chinese
  • Has appeared with Alan Alda in two different shows: M*A*S*H and ER, in which he portrays a doctor both times.
  • Is the wife of well-known voice actor Simon Templeman, who is best known for voicing the character "Kain" in the Legacy of Kain video game series.

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