Chau is bursting onto the silver screen, and she's already racking up the award nominations.
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For her performance in writer-director Alexander Payne's "Downsizing," she's already garnered SAG, Golden Globe and Critics' Choice nominations for her supporting role opposite Matt Damon.
Chau plays a woman in the tiny downsized world trying to better her life and help others along the way.
But make no mistake - she's probably the toughest character in the movie.
She recalled making her pitch in her tryout for the role: "In the audition, he told me, 'I've seen a lot of women and you're the only one who's gotten the rhythm of my writing.' And I said to him, 'Well, yeah man! So hire me already! Come on, let's go!'"
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Making the film, she got to work with Damon, Kristen Wiig and the rest of the talented cast and she made the most of the opportunity.
"I did a lot of homework and made sure I arrived on set prepared and ready to go," she recalled. "But they were such a supportive group of people to work with that I didn't have any problem. I felt completely relaxed and they gave me everything I needed to do my best job."
For her next project, she's working on a smaller film with first-time director Semi Chellas, based on the novel "American Woman," a finalist for the 2004 Pulitizer Prize for fiction.
"Downsizing" is in theaters now.