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Nuyen at the TCM Classic Film Festival Opening Night Red Carpet Funny Girl, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, CA, 04-25-13, s_bukley /Bigstock.com
Birth Name: France Nguyen Van Nga
Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Date of Birth: 31 July, 1939
Ethnicity: * father – Vietnamese, possibly Chinese * mother – French, Romani
France Nuyen is a French-American actress, model, and psychological counselor. She is known for her roles in the films South Pacific , Satan Never Sleeps , A Girl Named Tamiko , and The Joy Luck Club .
Her father was Vietnamese, and possibly also had Chinese ancestry. Her mother was French, and has been described as having at least partial Romani ancestry. France moved to the New York City, New York, U.S. at the age of sixteen. She has one daughter with her former husband, psychiatrist Thomas Gaspar Morell.
Source: http://vintoz.com