Who is Rae Dawn Chong?
Rae Dawn Chong earned a Genie for her performance in Jean-Jacques Annaud's prehistoric-drama La guerre du feu (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).
Trivia
- 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.
- Mentioned in the Alice in Chains song "Love Song", from their 1992 EP "Sap".
- An active volunteer for many charities, strongly supporting Habitat for Humanity and Byron Katie's work with inmates in prisons.
- 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.
- Naturalized United States citizen.