JULY 31, 2023 – While she is best known to Star Trek fans for her eponymous role in Star Trek: The Original Series’ season three episode, “Elaan of Troyius,” her stage, film, and television career stretches over fifty years and includes appearances in films and television series such as South Pacific, The Joy Luck Club, Gunsmoke, and St. Elsewhere. Born on today’s date in 1939, France Nuyen turns 84 years young.
Nuyen was born in Marseille and grew up in France. She came to the US in 1956 and was living in New York when director Josh Logan, who, she notes in a 2021 interview, spoke French, hired her after one meeting for South Pacific. This was her film debut, in 1958. Following up on that film, she appeared on Broadway in the title role of The World of Suzie Wong (also directed by Logan). Life, which featured Nuyen on its October 6, 1958 cover, said that “a good part of Broadway’s interest stems … from reports that 19-year-old France Nuyen, who … has never acted on stage before, is a knockout as Suzie…. She is touchingly childlike, impish and fatalistic about her profession [as a prostitute].”
Suzie Wong is also where she first worked with another actor familiar to Star Trek fans. The Life article goes on to note that Logan “has found another proficient young actor, William Shatner, to act Suzie’s only serious lover….”
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