Thuy Thu Le
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Thuy Thu Le (born 23 August 1973) is a retired American actress of Vietnamese heritage. She is one of the few Vietnamese to be involved in filming in the United States.
Thuy Thu Le was born in Saigon, South Vietnam. She was raised and educated in the United States, after her parents left Saigon during the Vietnam War. Thuy was only an infant at the time.
She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and is bilingual, speaking fluent Vietnamese and English.
[edit] Thuy Thu Le in "Casualties of War"
Thuy Thu Le is best known for her role(s) in the 1989 Brian de Palma film Casualties of War, starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn. She played a South Vietnamese girl named Tran Thi Oanh, a peasant girl living in a remote village in South Vietnam, who was suddenly kidnapped by a group of soldiers. Oanh was, very much, the catalyst for the entire story's plot.
Le also plays another role in the same film: an Asian girl on the bus that Fox's character, Eriksson, is on - in both the beginning scene and the ending scene, which both take place some years after the events with Oanh in the Vietnam War. In order to avoid confusion as to why she may have similarities with Tran Thi Oanh, while Le was playing the girl on the bus, she wore a different nose and her voice was dubbed.
[edit] Thuy Thu Le At Present
Though she delivered a critically acclaimed performance in Casualties of War, Thuy Thu Le is now retired from acting and is working as a school teacher in California, USA. She is married to a dentist and has three children.
