Kee Nang

Kee Nang is a fictional character who appears in Michael Ritchie's 1986 film The Golden Child. She is portrayed by English actress Charlotte Lewis. Character arc Kee Nang is a young Tibetan priestess who tries to recruit social worker and private investigator Chandler Jarrell (Eddie Murphy) in hope of finding and rescuing a mystical Tibetan boy. The boy, who is only known as "The Golden Child" (J.L. Reate), has been kidnapped by an evil sorcerer (Charles Dance) named Sardo Numspa. Kee tells a skeptical Chandler that it is his destiny (as it was written in a Tibetan scroll 400-years prior) to find the Golden Child. Chandler at first, plays along but mainly to get close and flirt with Kee, only to soon realize that not only is otherworldly magic real, but so is his destiny. Chandler was already working on a case involving a missing and eventually murdered girl named Cheryll Mosley, when Kee saw him on television. Sardo Numpa's forces drained Cheryll of blood in order to try and fool the Golden Child into consuming the blood, thus weakening his powers. These powers in particular, consists of telekinesis and the ability to bring dead animals back to life.