- Born
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Rae Dawn Chong was born February 28, 1961 in Edmonton, Canada. After a few film and television spots, Rae Dawn earned a Genie for her performance in Jean-Jacques Annaud's prehistoric-drama Quest for Fire (1981). She played the young, Ivaka prisoner, Ika. Other notables roles include Harpo's girlfriend "Squeek", aka, Mary Agnes in Steven Spielberg's five-time Academy Award-nominated film, The Color Purple (1985), and James Remar's beautiful and mysterious wife, Carola in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990).
- IMDb mini biography by: tony.r.vario@gmail.com
- SpousesNathan Ulrich(2011 - 2014) (divorced)C. Thomas Howell(July 11, 1989 - 1990) (divorced)Owen Edwin Baylis(February 14, 1982 - 1983) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenMorgan Baylis
- ParentsMaxine Sneed
- RelativesPrecious Chong(Half Sibling)Robbi Chong(Sibling)Marcus Chong(Sibling)Gilbran Chong(Half Sibling)Paris Chong(Half Sibling)Willa Carothers(Grandparent)Napolean Sneed(Grandparent)Lorna Jean Gilchrist(Grandparent)Stanley Chong(Grandparent)
- 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.
- Daughter of Tommy Chong and Maxine Sneed. Sister of Robbi Chong. Half-sister of Paris Chong, Gilbran Chong, Precious Chong, and Marcus Chong. (Marcus, the biological son of Martin Wyatt, a local newscaster in the San Francisco Bay Area, was adopted by her father and stepmother, Shelby Chong.).
- 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).
- 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).
- Mentioned in the Alice in Chains song "Love Song", from their 1992 EP "Sap".
- Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.
- I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
- 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.
- [on sex with Mick Jagger at 15] He wasn't that much older than me in my brain. He was 33 and young and gorgeous with a nice body. It wasn't a bad thing; it was fabulous. Totally rock 'n' roll. He didn't make me do anything I didn't want to do, but he was very vain, always looking in the mirror.
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