Kelly Marie Tran
Biography
Kelly Marie Tran is an American actress who began taking roles in 2011, mostly in short films and television, and who trained in improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade and performs with Number One Son, an Asian-American women's improv group at Second City. Born in San Diego, she earned a communications degree at the University of California, Los Angeles. She broke through as the rebel mechanic Rose Tico in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), becoming the first Asian-American woman to take a major part in a Star Wars movie. She went on to voice Raya in Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) and Dawn Betterman in The Croods: A New Age (2020), took the lead in the podcast Passenger List, and served as a regular on Sorry for Your Loss. She also executive produced the documentary Lily Topples the World and the poetry film Summertime.
37years old
Turns 38 on January 17in 67 days
- Born San Diego
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
- Also credited as Trần Loan and Loan Tran
Movie Career
- Films
- 9
- Career span
- 8 years2017 to 2025
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A role that slipped away
Tran voiced Raya in Raya and the Last Dragon, replacing Cassie Steele, and was replaced by Mindy Kaling as Val Little in Monsters at Work.
Behind the camera
In November 2022, Tran and Carlos López Estrada, who directed her in Raya and the Last Dragon, revealed they were starting a production company, Antigravity Academy, to help make entertainment by and about people from historically excluded communities.
Behind the camera
Tran was an executive producer on the 2021 documentary Lily Topples the World, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at South by Southwest.
Early training
Tran landed a commercial agent in 2011, and through that agent she took improv classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade. She is also part of Number One Son, an all-female Asian-American improv group at the Second City.
Kelly Marie Tran movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Raya and the Last Dragon2021 Action, Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasyas Rayavoice
IMDb rating 7.3190K votes
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi2017 Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fias Rose Tico
IMDb rating 6.8727K votes
Most often with
Anthony Daniels appears in five of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Anthony Daniels's page
Mark Hamill's page
Oscar Isaac's page
Carrie Fisher's page
Adam Driver's page
Daisy Ridley's page
Also four films together1 more actor
- John BoyegaThe Skywalker Legacy (2020), Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), The Director and the Jedi (2018) and Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
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Official profiles and reference pages.