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Rae Dawn Chong (born February 28, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian born actress and daughter of Tommy Chong. She is of African, First Nations, Chinese and Irish ancestry. Her half-sister Robbi Chong is a model and actress. [1]

She is best known for appearing in the films Quest for Fire (1981), The Color Purple (1985), Choose Me (1984), Commando (1985), Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers (1984), and Far Out Man (1990), in the latter two appearing with her father. Chong saw her most active period in films during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. However she has continued to be active in television acting roles into 2006.

Partial filmography

• Quest for Fire (1981)
• Choose Me (1984)
• Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers (1984)
• Beat Street (1984)
• Fear City (1984)
• City Limits (1985)
• American Flyers (1985)
• Commando (1985)
• The Color Purple (1985)
• Soul Man (1986)
• The Squeeze (1987)
• The Principal (1987)
• Walking After Midnight (1988)
• Rude Awakening (1989)
• Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
• Far Out Man (1990)
• Chaindance (1990)
• Denial (1991)
• The Borrower (1991)
• Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991)
• When the Party's Over (1992)
• Amazon (1992)
• Time Runner (1993)
• Boulevard (1994)
• Boca (1994)
• Power of Attorney (1995)
• Crying Freeman (1995) [2]
• The Break (1995)
• Hideaway (1995)
• Starlight (1996)
• Mask of Death (1996)
• Highball (1997)
• Goodbye America (1997)
• Small Time (1998)
• Dangerous Attraction (1999)
• The Visit (2000)
• Constellation (2005)

TV Shows

• Top of the Hill (1980)
• Badge of the Assassin (1985)
• Curiosity Kills (1990)
• Nitecap (1992)
• Father & Son: Dangerous Relations (1993)
• Highlander: The Series (1996)
• Valentine's Day (1998)
• Mysterious Ways (2000-2002) [3]
• Wild Card (2003)
• Deadly Skies (2005)

Trivia

• Rae Dawn was the topic of Stephen Lynch's song "RDC (Opie's Lament)".
• Rae Dawn Chong is mentioned in the Alice In Chains song "Love Song" from their Sap EP.
• MF Doom aka Viktor Vaughn, on the Vaudeville Villain album, composed a song entitled Raedawn, at one point the lyrics read, " New drink, named it after Chong's daughter, triple shot of Yak with a chaser of bong water."
• Chong has been married twice and has one son. Her second husband was actor C. Thomas Howell, her co-star in Soul Man (1986). They divorced in 1990.
• Redman says "And on and on to the break of Rae Dawn Chong" on Track 14, "Winicumuhround", on his second album Dare Iz a Darkside.
• She was mentioned on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in the episode "Father of the Year," where Will Smith's character claims Rae Dawn Chong is the province of China he met the purported mother of his child in.

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