Zoë Chao is a talented and versatile actress with a body of work that spans theatre, innovative television series and feature films.
Chao is currently filming the ensemble comedy The Afterparty for Apple TV+ from award-winning team Lord and Miller. She currently co-stars in the HBO Max anthology series Love Life, opposite Anna Kendrick.
In 2020, Chao appeared in Nat Faxon and Jim Rash’s Downhill opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell; Nisha Ganatra’s The High Note alongside Tracee Ellis Ross and Dakota Johnson; Mike Doyle’s Almost Love opposite Patricia Clarkson and Kate Walsh; and I Used To Go Here with Gillian Jacobs. Additional film roles include Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go Bernadette, opposite Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig, and Billy Crudup, and the forthcoming indie feature The Long Weekend opposite Finn Wittrock.
Chao’s additional television
Zoë Chao is a talented and versatile actress with a body of work that spans theatre, innovative television series and feature films.
Chao is currently filming the ensemble comedy The Afterparty for Apple TV+ from award-winning team Lord and Miller. She currently co-stars in the HBO Max anthology series Love Life, opposite Anna Kendrick.
In 2020, Chao appeared in Nat Faxon and Jim Rash’s Downhill opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell; Nisha Ganatra’s The High Note alongside Tracee Ellis Ross and Dakota Johnson; Mike Doyle’s Almost Love opposite Patricia Clarkson and Kate Walsh; and I Used To Go Here with Gillian Jacobs. Additional film roles include Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go Bernadette, opposite Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig, and Billy Crudup, and the forthcoming indie feature The Long Weekend opposite Finn Wittrock.
Chao’s additional television credits include the Netflix series Living With Yourself opposite Paul Rudd, The OA, and her starring debut in the Facebook Watch series Strangers. Other appearances: The Comeback, The Protector, and Hart of Dixie.
Theatre credits include Second Stage Uptown Friend art (dir. Portia Krieger), La Jolla Playhouses’ Sideways (dir. Des Macanuff), Surf Report (dir. Lisa Peterson), Our Town (dir. Tom Dugdale), and Ensemble Theatre Company’s Amadeus (dir. Jonathan Fox). Chao has also worked with directors Christopher Guest, Les Waters, Ping Chong, and Chris Ashley.
Chao was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Female Performance in a Comedy for her work in the web series God Particles.
Born and raised in Providence, R.I, Chao received her BA in Art History from Brown University and her MFA in Acting from UC San Diego.
