Rae Dawn Chong
- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Rae Dawn Chong was born February 28, 1961 in Edmonton, Canada. After a few film and
television spots, Rae Dawn earned a Genie for her performance in
Jean-Jacques Annaud's
prehistoric-drama
Quest for Fire (1981). She
played the young, Ivaka prisoner, Ika. Other notables roles include
Harpo's girlfriend "Squeek", aka, Mary Agnes in
Steven Spielberg's five-time Academy
Award-nominated film,
The Color Purple (1985), and
James Remar's beautiful and mysterious wife,
Carola in
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990).
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