Rosalind Chao (born September 23, 1959) is an American actress of Chinese descent. Chao's best-known roles include South Korean refugee Soon-Lee Klinger in the CBS series AfterMASH, Keiko O'Brien in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Dr. Kim in The O.C., Rose Hsu Jordan in the film The Joy Luck Club (1993), and Hua Li, Mulan's mother, in the live-action version of Mulan (2020). Chao is married to voice actor Simon Templeman; they have two children.

She began acting at the age of five in a touring Peking opera troupe in California at the urging of her parents, who were already actively involved in it, and in the summers they sent her to Taiwan to further develop her acting skills. As a child, she played the daughter of a laundromat owner (played by James Hong) in a 1970 episode of Here's Lucy titled "Lucy the Laundress."

For a time, Chao worked at Disneyland as an international tour guide.

Having decided not to continue her acting career, Chao enrolled in the communications department at the University of Southern California, where she earned a degree in journalism. However, after spending a year as an intern writing radio news at the CBS-owned Hollywood radio station KNX, she soon returned to acting.