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Thuy Trang ((ベトナム語:Thuỳ Trang), December 14, 1973 – September 3, 2001) was a Vietnamese-born American actress. She was best known for her role as Trini Kwan, the original Yellow Ranger in the ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' television series.〔(Thuy Trang profile ) at ''The New York Times'' website〕 Trang died in a car accident on September 3, 2001, near Bakersfield, California. ==Early life and education== Trang was born in Saigon, South Vietnam. Her father was a soldier in the South Vietnamese army (ARVN), and was among those tasked to protect the capital Saigon from the communist North Vietnamese 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 contacted US 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, with the ultimate aim of reaching the United States. Trang herself was very ill at the time and almost died. Upon arrival in Hong Kong, Trang's father petitioned the US government for political asylum for his family. After some time living in a Hong Kong detention camp, Trang and her family were reunited in California in 1980.Trang began to study kung fu at her father's request, around the age of nine. Her father died of cancer in 1992. Trang graduated from Banning High School and earned a scholarship to study civil engineering at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), planning to follow her father and older siblings into engineering. However, a chance run-in with an agent in Hollywood in 1992 sparked an interest in acting and changed her plans. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thuy Trang」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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