1. Kelly Marie Tran was born on Loan Tran, January 17,1989 and is an American actress.
23 Facts About Kelly Marie Tran
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Kelly Marie Tran began acting in 2011, with most of her roles being in short film and television.
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Kelly Marie Tran came to global prominence for her role as Rose Tico in the Star Wars sequel trilogy films The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker.
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Kelly Marie Tran voiced Raya in the Disney film Raya and the Last Dragon and Dawn Betterman in the DreamWorks Animation film The Croods: A New Age.
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Kelly Marie Tran was born on January 17,1989, in San Diego, California.
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Kelly Marie Tran's parents were refugees from Vietnam who fled the country following the Vietnam War.
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Kelly Marie Tran attended Westview High School in San Diego and worked at a yogurt shop to earn money for head shots.
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Kelly Marie Tran then graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts in communications.
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Kelly Marie Tran landed a commercial agent in 2011, who got Tran to take improv classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade.
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At The Second City, Kelly Marie Tran is part of the all-female, Asian-American improv group, Number One Son.
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In 2015, Kelly Marie Tran was working as an assistant at a creative recruiting firm in Century City.
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In 2015, Kelly Marie Tran was cast as Rose Tico in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
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Kelly Marie Tran plays the lead role of Kaitlin Le in Radiotopia's mystery thriller podcast Passenger List.
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Kelly Marie Tran was a series regular on the Facebook Watch series Sorry for Your Loss.
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Kelly Marie Tran voiced Raya in the Walt Disney Animation Studios production Raya and the Last Dragon, replacing Cassie Steele.
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Kelly Marie Tran was set to voice Val Little in the Disney+ series Monsters at Work, but was replaced by Mindy Kaling.
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Kelly Marie Tran has been cast as Dawn in the film The Croods: A New Age, replacing Kat Dennings.
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Kelly Marie Tran is an executive producer on Jeremy Workman's 2021 documentary Lily Topples the World, which follows 21-year-old domino toppling artist Lily Hevesh.
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Kelly Marie Tran is an executive producer of the spoken-word poetry ensemble film Summertime, marking her second collaboration with Raya and the Last Dragon director Carlos Lopez Estrada.
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Kelly Marie Tran is currently developing a biopic about civil rights activist and her close friend Amanda Nguyen.
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Subsequently, several cast and crew members of The Last Jedi condemned the attacks and spoke out in defense of Kelly Marie Tran, including writer-director Rian Johnson and actors John Boyega, Domhnall Gleeson, and Mark Hamill.
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At Star Wars Celebration in April 2019, Kelly Marie Tran received a standing ovation from fans, causing her to tear up at the reception.
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In November 2024, Kelly Marie Tran came out publicly as queer in an interview with Vanity Fair stating "I haven't said this publicly yet, but I'm a queer person," while discussing her upcoming remake of Ang Lee's queer rom-com The Wedding Banquet.