Background
Thuy Thu Le was born in Saigon, South Vietnam.
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Education
University of California, Berkeley.
Career
Sziusiiaks usjdzsajsußisusjzjjn. Le was only an infant at the time. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
She is bilingual as she speaks fluent Vietnamese and English.
Le is best known for her only-ever role in the 1989 Brian De Palma film Casualties of War, starring Michael J. Fox and Sean Pennsylvania She played a South Vietnamese peasant girl named Tran Thi Oanh (based on actual victim Phan Thi Mao), who lived in a remote village in South Vietnam.
She was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a group of soldiers. Le played a dual role in the film, with a short portrayal as an Asian student that Fox"s character meets years later aboard a transit line in San Francisco, California.
Despite her critically acclaimed performance in Casualties of War, Le chose to retire from acting.
As of 2005, she was working as a schoolteacher in California.
