Kiều Chinh (born in Hanoi 1937) is a Vietnamese-American actress, producer, humanitarian, lecturer and philanthropist. Biography Kiều Chinh was born on September 9, 1937, in Hanoi with real name Nguyễn Thị Chinh. Her vocal sound was a past Hanoian voice which is often called as a before-1954 Hanoian sound or the nasal voice's area. Today Vietnam has very few people who speak with the old Hanoian voice. 1937-1954 During World War II, her mother and her newly born brother were killed when their hospital was struck by an Allied bombing raid targeting Japanese troops in Hanoi during the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, when Chinh was at the age of six. Even so, her father was a government official so the family was quite wealthy. Following the end of World War II and the subsequent division of Vietnam into Communist and National regimes after the Geneva Conference, Chinh's older brother ran away from home to join the Resistance Forces. Her father urged her to board an aircraft and travel to the South, while he remained in the North to search for her older brother, promising to reunite with her in Saigon. Following her arrival in South Vietnam, however, she never saw her father again. Following her return to Vietnam in 1995 to meet her older brother, Chinh learned that her father was imprisoned in a communist re-education camp for more than six years and, after his release, died homeless and destitute. 1955-1975 Her father's friend adopted little girl Nguyễn Thị Chinh. Monsieur Nguyễn Đại Độ was worried that his son would stay in America after the airborne course, so he decided sending a telegram to the North. He asked a permission from Chinh's father to pair her with Sub-lieutenant Nguyễn Năng Tế - a first son of Mr. Độ - in 1956. Since then she only goes to church on weekends because her husband's family were Buddhists. This had a great impact on her later career. Also in 1956, one day Kiều Chinh went for a walk near the Hôtel Continental, there was a young man who actively approached her. He asked her going to a roadside café to meet someone. Then he introduced that person as a famous director named Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Mankiewicz said that Chinh suited a fictional role whom he was going to film in Saigon. He suggested her to take script The Quiet American. However,