Lana Condor, Kelly Marie Tran, Jeannie Camtu Mai … are Vietnamese-born beauties that have a firm foothold and resonate in Hollywood today.
The entertainment industry has always been known as one of the most attractive environments, but also fiercely competitive, with a tremendous rate of elimination, no matter in any country. In particular, Hollywood is considered the highest destination, where most stars around the world want to step into. However, that dream is not easily achieved, especially with Asian artists.
One of the reasons Asian artists have a “narrow door” in Hollywood is that the racist ideology is still heavy. Although there have been many movements over the years fighting for justice for blacks, yellows, and women in the US, improvements are still only moderately and still formal and somewhat forced. Especially when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, the anti-Asian situation became more and more serious.
In that context, there are still Vietnamese beauties who have overcome prejudice, struggle and strive every day to achieve remarkable achievements in Hollywood.
Lana Condor
Lana Condor (SN 1997, born Tran Dong Lan), was born in Can Tho, then adopted by an immigrant family in the US at the age of 5 months. Her adoptive father is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and former vice president of Yahoo! Sports.
Lana on “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before”.
She entered the Hollywood entertainment industry in 2016, with her debut film “X-Men: Apocalypse” (X-Men: Revelation), playing the superhero Jubilee.
The role that earned her worldwide fame was Asian-born female student Lara Jean in Netflix’s “To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before” series, with three installments in 2018, 2020 and 2021.
In addition, Lana also participates in many other film and television projects such as “Summer Night” (2019), action series “Deadly Class” (Assassin Classroom, 2018 – 2019) aired on Syfy and Netflix, ” Alita: Battle Angel ”(Alita: Warrior Angel, 2019). Recently, the beauty also confirmed to join the new Netflix series “Boo, Bitch”. The film revolves around a high school girl who suddenly turns into a ghost overnight.
Recently, she was invited as the host of the 23rd Costume Designer Guild Awards to honor the costume designers acting in Hollywood. The event takes place on Tuesday night (April 13, US time) with the online form.
Lana at the Costume Designer Guild Awards.
Kelly Marie Tran
Kelly Marie Tran, whose Vietnamese name is Tran Loan, was born in 1989 in the city of San Diego, California. She became known in Hollywood as Rose in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” in 2017. She is the first Asian actress to have a lead role in the classic Star Wars franchise.
Kelly Marie Tran is famous for playing “Stars War”.
Star Wars brought Kelly’s fame, but also made her the subject of attack from the fans of the film with racist ideas. However, the beauty did not give up, but spoke up and received support and protection from true fans, as well as her Hollywood colleagues.
In 2019, Kelly continues to reappear in “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”. However, the time spent for her character, Rose Tico, is only 1 minute and 16 seconds, about 10 times less than the previous installment. This makes fans and critics object, claiming that director JJ Abrams “compromises” with racists.
These difficulties do not make Kelly falter. Recently, she once again resonated when voicing Princess Raya in the Disney animated “Raya and the last dragon”. The film revolves around the first princess from Southeast Asia.
Kelly wears traditional Vietnamese ao dai at the launch event “Raya and the last god”.
In addition to acting, Kelly also works in the creation of short movie videos for the Jimmy Kimmel Live show. The beauty also tried her hand at the role of a film producer. The most famous work of the web series Ladies Like Us (2013), the content revolves around two friends with quirky characteristics, possessing secrets that threaten the world.
In addition, Kelly Marie Tran was honored with 2 male actors Mark Hamill and Oscar Isaac to read the list of nominees and winners in the Oscar Best Short Animation 2018 category.
Jeannie Mai
Jeannie Camtu Mai, also known as Jeannie Mai, was born on January 4, 1979), is a Vietnamese-American MC. She is known through such programs as “How Do I Look?”, “Character Fantasy”, “The Real” (the original version of “We Sisters” in Vietnam), The Real, Asia’s Next Top. Model, red carpet MC Golden Globe Awards …
As a fashion consultant, Jeannie has appeared in many television programs, including the column “Fashion Tips Today” of Today Show (NBC) … In 2019, she was assigned the responsibility of lead Oscar’s red carpet behind the scenes.
Jeannie Mai is MC, famous fashion consultant in America.
Before MCing for TV shows, she was a makeup artist, stylist, and had the opportunity to work with Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys …
Recently, Jeannie Mai shared pictures of her sweet wedding and rapper Jeezy (43 years old). The wedding ceremony took place in March at the couple’s house in Atlanta (USA), with the participation of relatives and close friends.
Before that, she married Freddy Harteis in 2007. Their marriage lasted 10 years before their divorce in October 2017. The two do not have children. Rapper Jeezy has never been married before, but already has 3 children with three different women.
Jeannie Mai just married rapper Jeezy last month.
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