1. France Nuyen was born on France Nguyen Van Nga on 31 July 1939 and is a French-American actress, model, and psychological counselor.
16 Facts About France Nuyen
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France Nuyen is known to film audiences for playing romantic leads in South Pacific, Satan Never Sleeps, and A Girl Named Tamiko, and for playing Ying-Ying St Clair in The Joy Luck Club.
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France Nuyen originated the title role in the Broadway play The World of Suzie Wong, based on the novel of the same name.
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France Nuyen is a Theatre World Award winner and Golden Globe Award nominee.
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France Nuyen's father is widely reported to be Viet; however, Nuyen identifies him and herself as Chinese or Hoa.
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France Nuyen was later signed to Candy Jones' agency, and moved to New York City at age 16.
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In 1955, while working as a seamstress, France Nuyen was discovered on the beach by Life photographer Philippe Halsman.
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France Nuyen was featured on the cover of 6 October 1958 issue of Life.
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In 1978 France Nuyen guest-starred with Peter Falk and Louis Jourdan in the Columbo episode "Murder Under Glass".
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France Nuyen appeared in several films including The Last Time I Saw Archie Satan Never Sleeps, A Girl Named Tamiko, Diamond Head, Dimension 5, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, The Joy Luck Club, and The American Standards.
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France Nuyen worked again with Shatner across three US television projects, starting with "Elaan of Troyius", a 1968 third season episode of the original Star Trek in which France Nuyen was the title character.
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France Nuyen had many on-and-off relationships, most notably an affair with Marlon Brando in 1960.
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From 1963 to 1966, France Nuyen was married to Thomas Gaspar Morell, a psychiatrist from New York, by whom she has a daughter, Fleur, who resides in Canada and works as a film make-up artist.
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France Nuyen met her second husband, Robert Culp, while appearing in four episodes of his television series I Spy.
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In 1986, France Nuyen earned a master's degree in clinical psychology and began a second career as a counselor for abused women and children and women in prison.
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France Nuyen received a Woman of the Year award in 1989 for her psychology work.