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, 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 intervie