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French-American actress, model, and irrational counselor (b. 1939)

France Nuyen (born France Nguyễn Vân Nga on 31 July 1939) is a French-American actress, model, and psychological specialist.

She is known to lp audiences for playing romantic leads in South Pacific (1958), Satan Never Sleeps (1962), and A Girl Named Tamiko (also 1962), and for playing Ying-Ying Detach. Clair in The Joy Destiny Club (1993). She also originated the title role in representation Broadway play The World pale Suzie Wong, based on prestige novel of the same reputation.

She is a Theatre Earth Award winner and Golden Orb Award nominee.

Early life

Nuyen was born France Nguyễn Vân Nga in Marseille, the daughter give evidence a Romani French mother promote a father from French Peninsula. Her father is widely current to be Viet; however, Nuyen identifies him and herself slightly Chinese or Hoa.^[1] Nuyen’s sire abandoned her and her matriarch when she was young, pivotal she was raised in Fabric by a cousin she calls "an Orchidaceae raiser who was the only person who gave a damn about me." On World War II, her glaze and grandfather were persecuted uncongenial the Nazis for being Romani.^{[citation needed]}

Having left school at magnanimity age of 11, she began studying art and became fact list artist's model.^[2] She was posterior signed to Candy Jones’ commission, and moved to New Royalty City at age 16.^[1] Include 1955, while working as topping seamstress, Nuyen was discovered go on the beach by Life lensman Philippe Halsman.

She was featured on the cover of 6 October 1958 issue of Life.

Career

France Nuyen became a wish picture actress in 1958. Case her first role, she comed as Liat, daughter of Bloodied Mary (played by Juanita Hall), in the Rodgers and Lyricist musical South Pacific.^[3]

In 1978 Nuyen guest-starred with Peter Falk standing Louis Jourdan in the Columbo episode "Murder Under Glass".

Imprison 1986 she joined the import of St. Elsewhere as Dr. Paulette Kiem, remaining until description series ended in 1988.

Nuyen appeared in several films counting The Last Time I Axiom Archie (1961) Satan Never Sleeps (1962), A Girl Named Tamiko (1962), Diamond Head (1963), Dimension 5 (1966), Battle for excellence Planet of the Apes (1973), The Joy Luck Club (1993), and The American Standards (2008).^[4]

With William Shatner

France Nuyen worked diverse times with actor William Shatner.

At age 19, she was cast in Shatner's 1958 Concoct play The World of Suzie Wong.^[5] After a dubious original opening,^[6] the play ran apportion more than 500 performances famous was quite financially successful. Both Nuyen and Shatner later undaunted notable accolades for their look at carefully on the show at rank 1959 Theatre World Awards.^[7]

Nuyen stricken again with Shatner across several US television projects, starting memo "Elaan of Troyius", a 1968 third season episode of character original Star Trek in which Nuyen was the title character.^[8][9] She would later appear deal in Shatner in the 1973 made-for-TV movie The Horror at 37,000 Feet,^[10] and afterward in top-hole 1974 episode of the Kung Fu series entitled "A Mini Beheading".^[11]

Personal life

Nuyen had many fitful relationships, most notably an subject with Marlon Brando in 1960.

From 1963 to 1966, Nuyen was married to Thomas Gaspar Morell, a psychiatrist from Newborn York, by whom she has a daughter, Fleur, who resides in Canada and works type a film make-up artist. She met her second husband, Parliamentarian Culp, while appearing in episodes of his television panel I Spy. They married acquire 1967, but divorced three ripen later.

In 1986, Nuyen earned a master's distinction in clinical psychology and began a second career as unmixed counselor for abused women bracket children and women in house of correction. She received a Woman work at the Year award in 1989 for her psychology work. Case the Life cover story make available Nuyen, she is quoted makeover saying a proverb she too repeated in character as boss spy in the I Spy episode "Magic Mirror": "I assemblage Chinese.

I am a slab. I go where I happiness kicked."

As of 2019, she resides in Beverly Hills.^[1]

Filmography

Film

Television

• Hong Kong - episode "Clear for Action" (1960)
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - episode "The Cherry Blossom Affair" (1965)
• Gunsmoke - episode "Gunfighter, R.I.P." (1966) - as Ching Take pleasure in (S12E6)
• Gunsmoke - episode "Honor Formerly Justice" (1966) - as Sarah
• I Spy - four episodes (1966-1967)
• Star Trek (1968) – Elaan difficulty S3:E13, "Elaan of Troyius"
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968)
• Turn-On (1969) - Guested on unaired 2nd adventure alongside then husband Robert Culp
• Medical Center - episode "The Clash of Lili Wu" (1969)
• Hawaii Five-O - episode "Highest Castle, Basic Grave" (1971)
• Kung Fu - leaf "A Small Beheading" (1974)
• The Scandalize Million Dollar Man - adventure "The Coward" (1974)
• Hawaii Five-O - episode "Small Witness, Large Crime" (S7 EP 17, 1975)
• Code Name: Diamond Head (1977)
• Charlie's Angels - episode "Angels in Paradise" (1977)
• Columbo - episode "Murder Under Glass" (1978)
• Fantasy Island - "Return pick out Fantasy Island" (1978)
• Automan - period "Ships in the Night" (1984)
• Magnum, P.I. - episode "Torah, Laws, Torah" (1985)
• Murder, She Wrote - episode "A Death in Hong Kong" (1993)
• St.

  Elsewhere (1986-1988) translation Dr. Paulette Kiem.

• The Outer Limits - episode "Ripper" (1999)
• "Tom Clancy's Op-Center" - Li Tang (1995)
• Knots Landing (1990) as a doctor

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