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Thuy Trang (Vietnamese: Thùy Trang, December 14, 1973 – September 3, 2001) was a Vietnamese actress. She was best known for her role as Trini Kwan, the original Yellow Ranger in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television series.
Trang's father was a soldier in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and was tasked to protect the capital Saigon from the Communist Vietnam People's Army during the fall of Saigon in 1975. The Communist forces overcame his battalion, which was low on ammunition and air support, during a fierce battle. He decided to return home to retrieve his family, but... MORE
Thuy Trang (Vietnamese: Thùy Trang, December 14, 1973 – September 3, 2001) was a Vietnamese actress. She was best known for her role as Trini Kwan, the original Yellow Ranger in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television series.
Trang's father was a soldier in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and was tasked to protect the capital Saigon from the Communist Vietnam People's Army during the fall of Saigon in 1975. The Communist forces overcame his battalion, which was low on ammunition and air support, during a fierce battle. He decided to return home to retrieve his family, but the route was blocked by the North Vietnamese Army. Fearing for his life, he fled South Vietnam and was given political asylum by the United States. He vowed to bring his family to the United States and contact U.S. government officials to politically pressure the Communist government of the unified Vietnam.
In 1975, when Trang was two years old, the rest of the family (Thuy, her mother, an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother) were forced to flee Saigon and in 1979 they secretly boarded a cargo ship along with hundreds of other persecuted Southern Vietnamese traveling to Hong Kong, LESS
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