- Born
- Died
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- 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, 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. 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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: The Ghost Of Paul
- ParentsKy TrangBe Trang
- Long hair with bangs.
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993) co-stars Amy Jo Johnson, Austin St. John, David Yost and Walter Jones attended her funeral.
- On September 3, 2001, Thuy, Angela Rockwood, and one of Angela's bridesmaids were in a car accident, which killed Thuy and left Angela paralyzed.
- Studied Shaolin kung fu as a child, at her late father's request.
- Episode 36 of Circuit Unsure (2001) was dedicated to her after she passed away.
- For six days a week, for nine months a year, the 21-year-old would wake at 4:30 am. and drive an hour from her West Hollywood apartment to the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993) set in Valencia, California. Filming would begin at 6:30 am and wrap up 12 hours later. She would get home at 7:30 pm and go to bed within an hour.
- In an interview with thuytrangtribute.com: "Tell all the fans that I completely adore them, and tell them I say, 'Thank you so much', for their love and support; and that I miss them terribly, and hopefully I get to see them or they get to see me up on the screen soon. And send my love, definitely."
- To all the people out there, you know just live out your dreams, if you dream something, just pursue it and do it because if you can put your mind to it you can do basically anything and everything you want to. I mean look at me, I came from a country that was falling apart because of communism and escaping to America, not knowing the language and then learning it from beginning, and overcoming that and where I am now, you know it just shows you that if you put your mind to it you can do anything you want to.
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