- Discovered Chris Pratt (who starred on the WB's Everwood (2002)) while he was a waiter at a restaurant in Hawaii where she was eating dinner one evening.
- Daughter of Tommy Chong and Maxine Sneed. Sister of Robbi Chong. Half-sister of Paris Chong, Gilbran Chong, Precious Chong, and Marcus Chong. (Marcus, the biological son of Martin Wyatt, a local newscaster in the San Francisco Bay Area, was adopted by her father and stepmother, Shelby Chong.).
- An active volunteer for many charities, strongly supporting Habitat for Humanity and Byron Katie's work with inmates in prisons.
- Rae's paternal grandfather, Stanley Chong, was Chinese, and Rae's paternal grandmother, Lorna Jean Gilchrist, was of Scots-Irish descent. Rae's maternal grandparents, Napoleon Sneed and Willa Carothers, were both the children of African-American immigrants to Canada (their families were from the American South).
- Is married, the mother of two sons, and divides her time between Vancouver, B.C. (where she lives) and Los Angeles, California (where she works). (November 2003)
- Mentioned in the Alice in Chains song "Love Song", from their 1992 EP "Sap".
- Was going to play Willis's girlfriend on Diff'rent Strokes (1978), but producers thought that she wasn't ethnic looking enough and cast Janet Jackson instead.
- Naturalized United States citizen.
- Subject of Stephen Lynch's song, RDC (Opie's Lament).
- She and Commando (1985) co-star Alyssa Milano each starred in different episodes of The Outer Limits (1995).
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