China Chow
- Actress
- Producer
China Chow, born in London, is known to
divide her time between New York City and Los Angeles. She is the child
of late model/designer Tina Chow (who
died of AIDS in 1992) and restaurateur
Michael Chow (whose Mr. Chow
restaurants are the talk of the town in London, Manhattan and Beverly
Hills), and has a younger brother,
Maximillian Chow. The first college
graduate in her family, China graduated from Scripps College, majoring
in psychology. She spent several years as a model, following in her
mother's footsteps: she posed for Shiseido cosmetics in Japan, was seen
on billboards for Tommy Hilfiger and
Calvin Klein, was named one of Harper's
Bazaar's "It Girls" in 1996, and was named in the December 1996 edition
of Vogue magazine's "The Next Best-Dressed List". Her acting debut was
in 1998's The Big Hit (1998),
co-starring 'Mark Wahlberg', whom she is
rumored to be dating.
