Chau currently appears in the hit Netflix series The Night Agent, and she can be seen next in Yorgos Lanthimos’ And and Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City. On the big screen, she is best known either as the dissident-slash-cleaner in Alexander Payne’s Downsizing or the maître d’ who serves “tortillas deliciosas” in The Menu, though her most acclaimed work came last year in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale. HBO and recent Oscar nominee Hong Chau go together like cheese and wine she’s been in three of the platform’s series so far, with every subsequent role bigger than the last (that’s her as Watchmen’s shrewd trillionaire Lady Trieu). This year, viewers can see them alongside another name on this list, Elyse Dinh, in the film Daughter, directed and written by Corey Deshon. While they are best known in the game world as the archer Lev in The Last of Us: Part II, Ian Alexander is also a regular figure in many high-profile series - The OA, Star Trek: Discovery, and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur among them. Recommended: AAPI TV and Streaming Calendar.Recommended: Best Asian-American Movies of All Time.To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, we decided to highlight 15 notable Vietnamese Americans and their contributions to Hollywood, because it’s never too late to take an interest in them, and who knows? It might just be a Jeopardy! category one day. That said, those who do show up on camera have historically been difficult to spot for a myriad of reasons, both valid and not so much, but their work has been no less vital to the industry.

The rule of thumb is to look at the accountants, assistants, seamstresses, and VFX artists in the end credits. Vietnamese Americans have been present in the movies for a long time, even if most of them tend to work behind the cameras.

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