Years active: 1993 - 1996 (started around 19 years old; 3 years in the business)
About Thuy Trang
Thuy Trang was born on December 14th of 1973 in Saigon, Vietnam. After the fall of Saigon in 1975 to Communist forces, her father who had fought in the Vietnam War, traveled to the United States to seek political asylum. However, his entire family, unable to follow, were left behind. In 1979, Thuy and her family boarded a cargo ship with other refugees to travel to the United States. However, first they sailed to a detention camp in Hong Kong. The family was finally reunited in California in 1980.
Thuy graduated from Banning High School and earned a scholarship to study civil engineering at UC Irvine.
After her father died from cancer In 1992, Thuy got interested in acting and in 1993, she got her first big break when she landed the role of Trini Kwan on the hit TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993). In 1994 Thuy left the show to pursue other projects. After appearing in a video documentary called the Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities (1995) as an interviewee and a cameo as a manicurist in Spy Hard (1996), Thuy got her next large role as Kali in The Crow: City of Angels (1996) the sequel to The Crow (1994).
Tragically on September 3rd 2001, Thuy was a passenger in a car traveling on the I-5, that lost control. Thuy was not wearing her seatbelt. She suffered fatal injuries.
She leaves behind only a small body of work but through them she made an impact on many.
Thuy Trang will be missed by many.
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She showed great promise and talent she was hard working in a career she loved such a tragedy her influence and love of theater is something we will all miss
