Biography
Rae Dawn Chong, a Canadian-American actress, has graced screens for decades. Born in Edmonton in 1961, the daughter of comedian Tommy Chong, her heritage reflects a rich mix of African-American, Native American, Asian, and Scottish-Irish ancestry. After her debut in the 1978 film "Stony Island," Chong's breakthrough came in 1981 with "Quest for Fire," which earned her a prestigious Genie Award for Best Actress. Throughout the 80s, she thrived with diverse roles in films like "Beat Street," "The ...
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Complete Filmography

FEEL
2025
as Sitter 5
This avant-garde film is a stained glass window of emotion. 28 different people's feelings are woven into an emotional time capsule that will never ex...

Scared to Death
2024
as Ruth
A group of filmmakers attend a séance at an abandoned children's orphanage in order to do research for a movie... that's their first mistake.

The Mistress
2023
Newlyweds Parker and Madeline move into their dream home. As they settle in, they discover a box of old love letters written to the original owner. An...

We Are Gathered Here Today
2022
as Mary Reed
The patriarch of the family enters the hospital with COVID-19 and because of hospital protocols his family members are forced to say their goodbyes vi...

The Sleeping Negro
2021
as Black Woman
Confronted with a series of racially charged incidents, a young black man must overcome rage, alienation, and hopelessness in order to find his own hu...
Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish Fables
2020
as Herself
A detailed look into the making of Tales from the Darkside: The Movie.

Reborn
2018
as Dory Ryder
A stillborn baby girl is abducted by a deranged morgue attendant and brought back to life by electro-kinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday, traumat...

Five Minutes
2017
as Delores
A progressive elementary school's "parenting class" takes an unexpected dramatic turn.

Knock 'em Dead
2014
as Jenny
Three rival actresses and their crew, desperate and hating each other, reunite for a horror movie sequel when someone starts killing them off just lik...

Pegasus Vs. Chimera
2012
as Mayda
Two mythological creatures battle each other.

Shiver
2012
as Detective Burdine
Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of othe...

Jeff, Who Lives at Home
2012
as Carol
Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his broth...

Cyrus: Mind of a Serial Killer
2010
as Vivian
A small independent news crew investigates a series of unexplained disappearances in a small Midwestern county. They find themselves interviewing a ma...

Constellation
2007
as Jenita
Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous pas...

Deadly Skies
2006
as Madison Taylor
When scientist Dr Madison Taylor discovers an asteroid the size of Texas is heading for Earth, she sets out to destroy it - with or without the help o...

Max Havoc: Ring of Fire
2006
as Sister Caroline
Sports reporter Max Havoc, a former kickboxer, travels to Seattle. There he encounters orphans who are threatened by an unscrupulous broker because he...

Highball
2002
as Rae Dawn Chong
A newly married couple tries to enhance their social life by throwing fabulous parties and inviting all their friends in Brooklyn to their home.
The Visit
2001
as Felicia
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses ...

Dangerous Attraction
2000
as Ann Rich
A successful ad agency woman finds herself in a dangerous power struggle, back-dropped by murder, when she begins to uncover the true identity of the ...

Cursed Part 3
2000
Director
A horror comedy that spoofs the narcissistic film director whose delusional vision of her badly written three page treatment (a direct ripoff of The B...

Things I Forgot to Remember
1999
as Mary
A bittersweet comedy in Spanish and English about a Cuban family that migrates to the United States. Robertico, Carmela and Roberto's youngest son, gr...

Valentine's Day
1998
as Sally
Detective Jack Valentine is reinstated from his desk job to go back onto the streets. His first assignment ends with the death of a mobster who was ab...

Alibi
1997
as D.A. Linda Garcia
Laid up after an accident on the slopes, ski champ Marti Gerrard receives a wrong-number phone call from software tycoon Connor Hill. The two hit it o...

Goodbye America
1997
as Special Agent Danzig
It is November 1992 and the US Navy is preparing to surrender its largest overseas facility at Subic Bay, Philippines, after almost a century. For bot...

For Hope
1996
as Woman at Bar (uncredited)
The life and death of a young woman who suffered from scleroderma, and how she and her family coped.

Small Time
1996
as The Woman
Ben is a small-time gangster who gets the opportunity to earn a lot of money. His boss sends him to a remote ranch with bag full of drugs and orders h...

Starlight
1996
Adrianna (Chong) is a beautiful alien woman who has come to Earth in search of a half alien man (Wirth). She needs him to help her defeat the evil ali...

Mask of Death
1996
as Cassandra Turner
While attempting to flee from the FBI, the criminal Frank Dallio kills Detective McKenna's wife, Rachel. McKenna himself is shot in the face by the pr...

The Break
1995
as Jennifer Irons
A washed-up tennis pro begins coaching a hopeful teen, Joel Robbins, whose overbearing father wants to discourage him from playing.

Power of Attorney
1995
as Joan Armstrong
Mafia don Joseph Scassi is a man willing to use all of his vast resources to defend himself against an indictment for murder and extortion.

Crying Freeman
1995
as Detective Forge
A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yak...

Hideaway
1995
as Rose Orwetto
Hatch Harrison, his wife, Lindsey, and their daughter, Regina, are enjoying a pleasant drive when a car crash leaves wife and daughter unharmed but ki...

Boca
1994
as J.J.
A photo-journalist goes to Brazil to investigate a savage crime boss. She becomes infatuated with the story.

Boulevard
1994
as Ola
A street prostitute takes in an abused young woman on the run from her misogynist boyfriend, leading to both facing off against the prostitute's dread...

Father & Son: Dangerous Relations
1993
as Yvonne
An estranged father and son are paroled from the same maximum-security prison with one unusual condition, they must become roommates. Their severed bo...

Time Runner
1993
as Karen Donaldson
During the alien invasion of 2022, one man flees through a wormhole to 1992, where attempt after attempt is made to catch and kill him.

When the Party's Over
1993
as M.J.
Three women and a gay man in their 20s share a house in Los Angeles; try to find love and happiness - often at the expense of their well-being and fr...

The Borrower
1991
as Diana Pierce
Aliens punish one of their own by sending him to earth. The alien is very violent, and when the body he occupies is damaged, he is forced to find anot...

Chaindance
1991
as Ilene Curtis
As a part of a special government reform program, inmate J.T. Blake has to take care of Johnny Reynolds who has cerebral palsy. In the meantime, anoth...

Prison Stories: Women on the Inside
1991
as Rhonda
Three novels - three dramatic stories in the walls of the women's prison. The first story - a brand new, first went to prison inmates. The second - ab...

Amazon
1990
as Paola
Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining ...

Curiosity Kills
1990
as Jane
An apartment block janitor stumbles upon a deadly secret after one of the residents seemingly commits suicide and a mysterious new tenant arrives.

Far Out Man
1990
as Herself
An aging hippie sets out on a trip across America to find his family.

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
1990
as Carola (segment ‘Lover’s Vow’)
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.

Denial
1990
as Julie
A young woman tries to leave her troubled past behind. She meets her old flame by accident and they fall in love again, but this obsessive relationshi...

Walking After Midnight
1988
as Self
Explores the past-life experiences of various celebrities.

The Principal
1987
as Hilary Orozco
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school...

The Squeeze
1987
as Rachel Dobs
Harry Berg is both a con artist and an actual artist -- he constructs large sculptures out of television sets -- but he is not particularly successful...

Running Out of Luck
1987
as Slave Girl
A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.

Zabagabee
1987
Long-form Barnes and Barnes piece featuring a handful of music videos, sketches, and assorted weirdness.

Soul Man
1986
as Sarah Walker
A white prospective grad student's affluent family won't pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qual...

Casey at the Bat
1986
as Circe Lafemme
Down-on-his-luck baseball player Casey Frank (Elliott Gould) follows his dreams to become the biggest star in the game.

The Color Purple
1985
as Squeak
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After...

Commando
1985
as Cindy
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young da...

City Limits
1985
as Yogi
A series of teenage gangs struggle against each other in a not-so-distant future. Eventually they unite against an evil corporation, as represented by...

American Flyers
1985
as Sarah
When Dr. Marcus Sommers realizes that he and his troubled, estranged brother David may be prone a fatal brain disease that runs in their family, he de...

Badge of the Assassin
1985
as Christine Horn
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police dete...

Choose Me
1984
as Pearl Antoine
Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talk radio relationship counselor, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose ...

Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
1984
as The Gypsy
Two brothers who can feel each others' pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution.

Fear City
1984
as Leila
Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and murdered by a psycho. A hard-nosed police detective and a conflicted ex-boxer-turned-private-eye, hired b...

Beat Street
1984
as Tracy Carlson
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.

Quest for Fire
1981
as Ika
In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start ...
À propos de 'La guerre du feu'
1981
as Self
Making of ”Quest for Fire“.

The Top of the Hill
1980
as Rita
Michael Stone is a rising company executive who decides to chuck his career and marriage to fulfill a fantasy to be a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsl...

Stony Island
1978
as Janetta
Richie Bloom, the only white kid on the block, forms an R&B band with his best friend, Kevin. With the help of their mentor, aging sax legend Percy, t...
The Whiz Kid and the Mystery at Riverton
1974
as Greta
A 13-year-old brainiac invents an ingenious listening device, which he uses to bring a crooked city official and his pals to justice

Moodswing Whiskey
N/A
as Mama Marks
Leo, a husband, father and businessman, confronts the brutal realities of capitalism as he fights to reclaim what he believes are his inalienable righ...