Biography
Nancy Kwan is a Hong Kong-born Eurasian-American actress, who played a pivotal role in the acceptance of actors of Asian ancestry in major Hollywood film roles. Widely praised for her beauty, Kwan was considered a sex symbol in the 1960s.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Be Water
2020
as Self - Actress / Friend
In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong to complete four iconic films. Charting his strug...

Window Horses
2017
as Gloria
Rosie Ming, a young Canadian poet, is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, but she’d rather be in Paris. She lives at home with he...

Paint It Black
2016
as Margaret
A young woman attempts to deal with the death of her boyfriend while continuously confronted by his mentally unstable mother.

To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey
2010
as Herself
The definitive and true-life story of Nancy Kwan Ka-Shen, who as a young Eurasian girl from Hong Kong, captured the hearts and minds of cinemagoers ar...

You Don't Know Jack: The Jack Soo Story
2009
as Self
The film tells actor Jack Soo's story through a montage of film and television clips, rare footage, interviews with family members, friends, co-worker...

Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective
2009
as Self (archive footage)
Mr. Yunioshi: An Asian Perspective provides some insightful commentary of how far we've come concerning Asian characterizations in Hollywood movies fr...

Hollywood Chinese
2007
as Self
Hollywood Chinese is a captivating look at cinema history through the lens of the Chinese American experience. Directed by triple Sundance award-winni...
Anna May Wong - Frosted Yellow Willows: Her Life, Times and Legend
2007
as Narrator
Documentary of Anna May Wong, a Chinese-American woman who endured many hardships and heartaches to become an international star of film, stage and te...

Ray of Sunshine
2006
as Lilly
Rachael, an aspiring pianist with a troubled past, disguises herself as a boy and searches for her father, a free-wheeling musician who abandoned her ...

Murder on the Yellow Brick Road
2005
as Natalie Chung
A pretty young songbird found murdered on Hollywood Boulevard. The crusty old Private Eye who was in love with her. A smooth-talking seductress who hi...

The Unbeatable Bruce Lee
2001
as Self (archive footage)
A look at the life of superstar Bruce Lee.

Mr. P's Dancing Sushi Bar
1999
as Mitsuko McFee
A film about a small sushi counter in the lobby of a hotel in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, for Japanese commercial employees sent to the United States.

For Life or Death
1996
as Ling Li
A man named Kaan Woo (James Lew) is escaping his dark past, having been involved with a cult of brown shroud-wearing, druid-like monk warriors that ha...
Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities
1995
as Self
The first video to combine international martial arts together with interviews and demonstrations by celebrities of Hollywood.
Rebellious
1995
as Joni
Late stuntman Bernhard Pock wrote, directed, and starred in this gritty modern-day fairy tale about a biker poet on a journey of self-discovery. Pock ...
Rebellious
1995
Producer
Late stuntman Bernhard Pock wrote, directed, and starred in this gritty modern-day fairy tale about a biker poet on a journey of self-discovery. Pock ...

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
1993
as Gussie Yang
This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhood of rigorous martial arts training...

Babies
1990
as Dr. Liu
The physical and emotional trauma of three close-knit women trying to have children is explored.

Cold Dog Soup
1990
as Madame Chang
A taxi driver (Quaid) pounds Zen parables (if time money, is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of the...

Miracle Landing
1990
as C.B. Lansing
Based on a real, in-flight incident in 1988, a passenger jet loses a portion of its fuselage in flight over Hawaii and is forced to make an emergency ...

Sally's Beauty Spot
1990
as Suzie Wong (archive footage)
A large black mole above an Asian woman's breast serves as a metaphor for cultural and racial difference in this engaging experimental film. Off-scree...

Night Children
1989
as Diane Martin
A veteran cop (David Carradine) investigates the crimes of an anarchist street gang that causes chaos wherever they go. Meanwhile, his wife (Nancy Kwa...

Slaying the Dragon
1988
A highly-critical documentary about the history of Asian-American actresses in Hollywood. Features interviews with pioneering Asian-American actresses...

Keys to Freedom
1988
as Dr. Lao
The keys to freedom for citizens of Hong Kong are U.S. passports, as their city quakes with the imminent transition to Chinese Communist rule. A deadl...

Reel Horror
1985
as Leslie (archive footage)
Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood.

Blade in Hong Kong
1985
as Lily
Joe Blade is an unclaimed TV pilot film. An American, Blade works in Hong Kong, the home of his adoptive father Chang Chin-tzu. When Chang Chin-tzu is...

Walking the Edge
1985
as Christine Holloway
A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.

The Last Ninja
1983
as Noriko Sakura
A successful art dealer is sought out by law enforcement after terrorists take some scientists hostage. Finding no possible solution, a law enforcemen...

Angkor: Cambodia Express
1982
as Sue
In a tale of drama and adventure, young journalist Andy Cameron (Robert Walker) has to get into Cambodia (it is assumed this is during the genocidal r...

Dreams of Desire
1981
Producer, Story
A married man with an unsatisfying sex life repeatedly dreams of making love to a mysterious Chinese woman somewhere in Hong Kong. Obsessed, the man a...
Streets of Hong Kong
1979
as Mei Mei

Night Creature
1978
as Leslie
A big-game hunter brings a killer leopard to his private island and turns it loose so he can hunt it down. However, unexpected visitors arrive at the ...

Project: Kill
1976
as Lee Su
A former government assassin flees a mind-control program in the Philippines, pursued by his ex-partner, the local police and Asian gangsters.

That Lady from Peking
1975
as Sue Ten Chan
Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russian diplomat. In return for arranging an escape, the...

Supercock
1975
as Yuki Chan
An American cowboy in the Philippines gets mixed up in cockfighting.
Fortress in the Sun
1975
as Maria
The most expensive message action film ever to hit the screen. An international-geared vehicle showcasing two of Asia's great acting talents.

The Pacific Connection
1974
as Leni
Ben is a farm boy who comes into conflict with the Evil Spanish Governor and his two sons. To assist in their oppression the Governor hires a Samurai ...

Spring Comes Not Again
1974
Spring Comes Not Again is a tragic story of romance and betrayal, set in contemporary Hong Kong. The film opens with a deeply distraught Betty (Nancy ...

Wonder Women
1973
as Dr. Tsu
Dr. Tsu is a brilliant surgeon with her own exotic island off the coast of Manila. Using her sexy, all-girl army of martial-arts experts, Tsu kidnaps ...
Heiße Ware aus Hong Kong
1973
as Self
Made for German TV documentary about the early craze of Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema. While critical on the subject and not too well informed, it nev...
Karioka etchos de America
1971

The McMasters
1970
as Robin
When a black Civil War veteran becomes co-owner of the southern McMasters ranch, the incensed local Confederate veterans come gunning for him and his ...

The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1969
as Revel Drue
A runaway truck containing the corpse of a slain gang leader rolls into a California nightclub owned by Johnny Cain, a hard bitten former free-lance a...

The Wrecking Crew
1968
as Wen Yu-Rang
When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion in U.S. gold, ICE chief MacDonald summons secret a...

Cocoon
1968
as Rosemary Quong
In this pilot film to the "Hawaii Five-0" television series, special law officer Steve McGarrett tracks down Red Chinese operatives and their spy ring...

Nobody's Perfect
1968
as Nurse Tomiko Momyama
This military service comedy chronicles the misadventures of the U.S.S. Bustard in Japan. The crew has stolen a Buddha statue from a Japanese village,...

The Corrupt Ones
1967
as Tina
Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful villains in this quest for an ancient Chinese treasure...

Arrivederci, Baby!
1966
as Baby
Nick tries to kill his wife to get her money, but when learning of this, she plans the same for him!

Lt. Robin Crusoe U.S.N.
1966
as Wednesday
Lt. Robin Crusoe is a navy pilot who bails out of his plane after engine trouble. He reaches a deserted island paradise where he builds a house and be...

The Magic Stone
1966
as Mei Ching

The Wild Affair
1965
as Marjorie Lee
Young office assistant Majorie will marry soon, however, she's plagued by doubts if her fiance is the right one. On her last day at work, her male col...

Fate Is the Hunter
1964
as Sally Fraser
An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.

Honeymoon Hotel
1964
as Lynn Hope
A man left at the alter goes on his honeymoon trip anyway, taking his best man along instead.

Tamahine
1963
as Tamahine
The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier ...

The Main Attraction
1962
as Tessa
An affable drifter on the lam for a murder he didn't commit hides out in a circus.

Flower Drum Song
1961
as Linda Low
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown, from Hong Kong, with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved wi...

The World of Suzie Wong
1960
as Suzie Wong
A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.