1. Tiana Alexandra-Silliphant was born on Du Thi Thanh Nga, August 11,1956 and is a Vietnamese-American actress, filmmaker, and activist.
25 Facts About Tiana Alexandra
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Tiana Alexandra is best known for her 1992 documentary From Hollywood to Hanoi, the first American feature documentary filmed in Vietnam by a Vietnamese-American.
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Tiana Alexandra-Silliphant was born in Saigon, South Vietnam, in 1956.
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Tiana Alexandra attended Thomas Jefferson Junior High School in Arlington, Virginia, where she encountered racial discrimination.
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Tiana Alexandra studied martial arts under Bruce Lee and later trained with Jhoon Rhee, which contributed to her involvement in performing arts and martial arts.
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On July 4,1974, Tiana Alexandra married Stirling Silliphant in a ceremony at Chasen's Restaurant in West Hollywood.
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Tiana Alexandra made her film debut in Sam Peckinpah's's The Killer Elite, co-written by her husband, screenwriter Stirling Silliphant.
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Tiana Alexandra starred in Catch the Heat and co-produced the fitness program Karatecize, combining dance and martial arts.
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Tiana Alexandra was one of the first Vietnamese-American actresses to join the Screen Actors Guild in Hollywood, which allowed her to break racial stereotypes.
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In 1978, Tiana Alexandra starred as Holly Nagata alongside Angie Dickenson, Robert Wagner, and Dennis Weaver in the ABC mini-series Pearl, which dramatized the events surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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In 1981, Tiana Alexandra starred with Bruce Boxleitner and Brian Dennehy as Mai, a Vietnamese medic in the Warner Bros.
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Tiana Alexandra's music, including tracks like "Feel the Heat", was showcased on MTV.
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In 1992, Tiana Alexandra wrote, directed, and produced From Hollywood to Hanoi, which explores her personal experiences as a Vietnamese refugee and the long-term impact of the Vietnam War on both Vietnam and the United States.
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In 1993, Tiana Alexandra co-founded the Indochina Film Arts Foundation to promote cultural exchange through film and the arts.
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Tiana Alexandra has been a featured radio guest on NPR's Fresh Air Program with Terry Gross, as well as the Pacifica Network stations WBAI FM in New York, KFAI FM in Minneapolis and KPFK FM in Los Angeles.
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Tiana Alexandra has lectured at Bennington College, Bryn Mawr College, Harvard University, Columbia University, Notre Dame University, University of Southern California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Barbara and Stanford University.
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Tiana Alexandra was a panelist in the "My Lai 25 Years After" conference at Tulane University and was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Film Studies at Dartmouth College in 1993.
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In 2000, Tiana Alexandra explored the Plain of Jars region of Laos to document the effects of carpet-bombing and unexploded ordnance on local populations.
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Tiana Alexandra documented the 30th Anniversary Reunion of Associated Press War Photographers in Ho Chi Minh City in 2005.
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In 2007, Tiana Alexandra went on a world tour with Oscar and Tony-winning author Christopher Hampton to help manage and promote his work on the film Atonement.
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James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Philip Glass and Phillip Noyce participated in the short documentary that Tiana Alexandra created from the event.
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Le Ly and Tiana Alexandra visited the site of Jackson's death and documented the impersonators carrying on his legacy in both the US and Vietnam.
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Tiana Alexandra is credited as Associate Producer on the 2011 release and documented the behind-the-scenes development of the project.
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In 2020, Tiana Alexandra joined partner Christopher Hampton and crew on location in Malaysia to film the international TV mini-series The Singapore Grip.
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Tiana Alexandra documented the making of the six-episode drama, which portrayed the intrigues and upheaval of the British colonialism during the Fall of Singapore in WWII.