Dustin Nguyen
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| Dustin Nguyen | |
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 Nguyen at the 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival. |
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| Born | Nguyen Xuan Tri September 17, 1962 Saigon, South Vietnam |
| Spouse(s) | Angela Rockwood-Nguyen |
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Dustin Nguyen (b. September 17, 1962, Saigon, South Vietnam (now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)) is a Vietnamese American actor.
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[edit] Early life
Born as Nguyễn Xuân Trí, his mother My Le was an actress and dancer and his father, Xuan Phat, was an actor, writer and producer in South Vietnam. The family left Vietnam in April 1975 as it fell to Communist Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army forces.
They arrived in Guam, then the family was moved to a refugee camp in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, and finally with the assistance of a Methodist church they relocated to Kirkwood, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. After Nguyen graduated high school, he moved to Southern California and attended Orange Coast College and majored in communications. Nguyen practices several martial arts including Muay Thai, Tae Kwon Do, Eskrima, and Jeet Kune Do.
[edit] Acting
He made his acting debut on Magnum P.I., portraying a Cambodian freedom fighter in the episode "Crouching". He was a cast member on both the television series 21 Jump Street and V.I.P., and has guest-starred on a number of other series, most notably seaQuest DSV, playing the role of Chief William Shan. He most recently starred in the 2007 film The Rebel.
[edit] Family
Nguyen and his wife, former actress/model, Angela Rockwood-Nguyen, have been active in the The Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center ever since a car accident left Angela Rockwood-Nguyen a quadriplegic on September 3, 2001 in an accident that claimed the life of Vietnamese-American actress Thuy Trang, a member of the original cast of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
[edit] External links
- Dustin Nguyen at the Internet Movie Database
- Lisa Lee (July 7, 2006). No ‘Little Fish’. AsianWeek.com. Retrieved on January 17, 2008.
- Patricia Brennan (December 13, 1987). Out Of Saigon And Into TV. Washington Post. Retrieved on January 17, 2008.
- Allan Donnelly (March, 2002). V.I.P moves are no Hollywood make-believe. Men's Fitness. Retrieved on January 17, 2008.
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