Who are Sue and Bruce Chao? Meet Zoë Chao’s parents! Age, Job

American stage and television actress/writer Zoë Carroll Chao is primarily known for her role as Isobel in Strangerand Zoe in Party afterwards. Most recently, in 2023, she appeared in romantic comedies Your location or mine (like Minka) and Somebody I used to know (Ramona). So, Zoë has been working in this industry since 2006. And she has certainly received great support, especially from her parents, for all these years. Who are they? We will now explore this in the remainder of the article.

Who are Zoë Chao’s parents?

Zoë Chao grew up in a family of visual artists. Yes, her parents both work in this profession, this we will discuss later.

Zoë was born in Providence, Rhode Island in September 1985 to Bruce Chao and Sue Carrol. Keep reading and get to know them individually and together.

Meet Sue Chao, Zoë Chao’s Mother

Zoë Chao’s social media activity shows that she loves both her parents very much. Often on her posts, one can see her appreciating them.

Speaking specifically about Zoë’s mother, she always had someone tell her “I’m your mother”.

Zoë’s mother, unlike her husband Bruce, a second-generation Chinese American, is believed to be of Irish origin. And Zoë in turn is described as being half Chinese and half Irish.

Sue Chao was born in May 1946. Thus, she will turn 76 years old in 2022.

Sue Chao is a visual artist who, unlike her husband, does not reveal details about her career.

Following in her parents’ footsteps, Zoë also always planned to work in an art gallery after graduating from college. However, her fate had something else planned for her. And her relatives were supportive anyway. One time, Zoë opened up on an IG story about how her mother helped her audition.

Zoë, after graduating from The Wheeler School in 2004, received a BA in art history from Brown University and an MFA from the graduate acting program at UCSD.

Zoë before taking on career-changing roles like Stranger In 2017 and beyond, she had many supporting roles as “best friends”.

  • Is Sue Chao on Instagram?

Sue Chao has not been on Instagram since February 16, 2023. However, she has previously shown glimpses of her life on Facebook ‘Sue Carroll’.

Meet Bruce Chao, Zoë Chao’s Father

On Instagram @zchao, we have seen Zoë Chao playing as a child with her father and other members of his side of the family.

It appears that Zoë’s father Bruce Chao is Chinese. His mother (Zoë’s grandmother) moved to Michigan from China when she was 7 years old, during the pre-Cultural Revolution era.

Bruce, of old, was born to Wu-Wai Chao and Phebe Shih Chao. And he grew up with his two brothers Matthew and Stephen Chao.

Bruce Chao was born in 1948. Thus, he will turn 74 years old in 2022.

As an artist, Bruce Chao’s sculptures have been exhibited across the United States in spaces such as the Smithsonian Art Museum, PS1 in New York, the Mississippi Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts Joslyn in Omaha. Internationally, he has exhibited them at the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan, and Asperon Fortress in Leerdam, Netherlands, among other places. He seems to have had quite a busy career from the 1970s to the 1990s.

An MFA graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, his grants and fellowships include a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship, an NEA USA/Japan Creative Artist Fellowship, a number of NEA Individual Artist Fellowships, as well as fellowships from the Ohio State Council on the Arts.

  • Is Bruce Chao on Instagram?

Bruce Chao is not on Instagram or any other social media platform at the time of this writing. Despite this, he still occasionally appears on his wife and children’s social networks.

Related FAQs

  • Are Zoë Chao’s parents still together?

Zoë Chao’s parents may still be together and married as of this writing.

  • Where do Zoë Chao’s parents live now?

Zoë Chao’s parents are residing in Rehoboth, a historic town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, as of February 2023.

  • How many children do Zoë Chao’s parents have?

Zoë Chao’s parents have one more child and she is Maia Chao, Zoë’s younger sister. She turned 30 years old on March 24, 2022, much younger than her sister who turned 37 on September 19, 2022.

On January 23, 2023, Malia, on her IG @maia.pology, shared that she has been working with her mother and sister for some time to turn her grandmother’s unpublished manuscript into a book . She informed everyone that the project they started in 2020 finally exists.

Maia, like her parents, is a visual artist. Her BIO on the internet specifically introduces her as a collaborative interdisciplinary artist working in performance, video, sculpture and social practice.

Maia holds a BA in Anthropology from Brown University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. At the time of this writing, she is a 2022-23 Pew Fellow and a full-time Professor of Social Practice at the Maryland Institute College of Design in Baltimore.

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