ABOUT HONG CHAU
Movie actress who appeared in Alexander Payne 's Downsizing in 2017 and earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for her performance. In 2018, she began appearing in Amazon's Homecoming and later in 2019, HBO's Watchmen .
She got a job with PBS after graduating from Boston University, studied acting, and eventually found herself on the HBO show Treme .
She appeared in the film Inherent Vice in 2014 and the TV miniseries Big Little Lies in 2017. In 2023, she was Oscar-nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for The Whale .
Her parents were two of the Vietnamese boat people who fled the country in 1970.
She appeared on screen with Matt Damon and Christoph Waltz in Downsizing.
