

“When I was young, underage jailbait, I was hanging out with Mick Jagger,” she told hosts Seth Abramovitch and Chip Pope. Actress Rae Dawn Chong (pictured in 1985's The Color Purple) said she slept with Mick Jagger when she was "young, underage jailbait." (Photo: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)Īctress Rae Dawn Chong, who starred in Commando and The Color Purple in the 1980s, says she slept with Mick Jagger when she was an underage teen in two new interviews.Ĭhong, now 58, first referenced her connection to the Rolling Stones rocker, now 76, in an interview for The Hollywood Reporter podcast It Happened in Hollywood in which she spoke of being cast as Jagger’s love interest in the 1985 music video for his single “Just Another Night.” Chong, who was 24 at the time, credited the video for helping her land a role in Commando that year and said she got the gig after running into Jagger and bandmate Keith Richards on the street. Thomas Howell, her co-star in the feature film Soul Man. However, she continues working in television and film.Chong also played the love interest in Mick Jagger's video "Just Another Night".Ĭhong has been married twice and has one son named Morgan.

Chong saw her most active period in films during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. Chong won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in 1983 for Quest for Fire. Her sister Robbi Chong is a model and actress.Chong is known for appearing in the films Quest for Fire (1981), The Color Purple (1985), Choose Me (1984), Beat Street (1984), Commando (1985), Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers (1984), and Far Out Man (1990), in the latter two appearing with her father. Chong's father is of Chinese, Scottish-Irish, and French ancestry and her mother is of Afro-Canadian and Cherokee descent.

She and her sister Robbi were raised by her grandmother, Tommy Chong's mother. Her sister Robbi Chong is a model and actress.Chong is known for appearing in the films Quest for Fire (1981), The Color Purple (1985), Choose Me (1984), Beat Street (1984), Commando (1985), Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers (1984), and Far Out Man (1990 Rae Dawn Chong (born February 28, 1961) is a Canadian-American actress.Chong was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong. Description: Rae Dawn Chong (born February 28, 1961) is a Canadian-American actress.Chong was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong.
