Kelly Marie Tran

Kelly Marie Tran

Kelly Marie Tran was born on January 17, 1989 in San Diego, California. She is the first Asian-American woman to play a main role in a Star Wars film. Tran graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a B. A. in communications.

About Kelly Marie Tran in brief

Summary Kelly Marie TranKelly Marie Tran was born on January 17, 1989 in San Diego, California. Her parents were refugees from Vietnam who fled the country following the Vietnam War. Tran graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a B. A. in communications. She began acting in 2011, with most of her roles being in short film and television. In 2015, she was cast as Rose Tico in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. She is the first Asian-American woman to play a main role in a Star Wars film.

In June 2018, more than six months after the film’s release, Tran deleted all of her Instagram posts following months of harassment. She has also been cast as Dawn in the film The Croods: A New Age, replacing Kat Dennings, and as Raya in the upcoming Walt Disney Animation Studios in-house animated production Raya and the Last Dragon.