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<div>{{Short description|American actress (born 1966/1967)}}<br />
{{BLP sources|date=January 2011}}<br />
{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Thuy Thu Le<br />
| image = <br />
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| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date |22 |1989 |8 |18}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Saigon]], [[South Vietnam]]<br />
| nationality = American<br />
}}<br />
'''Thuy Thu Le''' (born 1966/1967) is a Vietnamese actress known for her appearance in the 1989 movie ''[[Casualties of War]]'' by Brian De Palma.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Le was born in [[Saigon]], [[South Vietnam]],<ref name="Wygant">{{cite interview |interviewer-last=Wygant |interviewer-first=Bobbie |interviewer-link=Bobbie Wygant |title=Thuy Thu Le |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgwC6r6JbrY|publisher=[[KXAS-TV]]|date=1989|access-date=May 13, 2023 |via=The Bobbie Wygant Archive/[[YouTube]]}}</ref> in 1966 or 1967.<ref name="Cerone">{{cite news |last=Cerone |first=Daniel |title="Casualty" Newcomer Walks On as a Star |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-08-18-ca-732-story.html |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=August 18, 1989 |access-date=May 13, 2023}}</ref> She fled to the United States with her father and two older brothers during the [[Fall of Saigon]] in 1975.<ref name="Wygant"/><ref name="Cerone"/> Her mother arrived in the US in 1979; however, they weren't reunited until 1985.<ref name="Wygant"/> Le speaks Vietnamese, English, and French. She majored in English at the [[University of Paris]].<ref name="Cerone"/><br />
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Le gave her only acting performance in [[Brian De Palma]]'s 1989 war drama film ''[[Casualties of War]]''. In the film, she played two roles: a Vietnamese peasant girl who was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by a group of American soldiers (her character was based on real-life victim [[Phan Thi Mao]]); and an Asian student whom Private First Class Max Eriksson ([[Michael J. Fox]]) meets years after the incident aboard a transit line in [[San Francisco]]. Le has stated that she auditioned for the part because De Palma's ''[[The Untouchables (film)|The Untouchables]]'' (1987) is one of her favorite films.<ref name="Wygant"/><ref name="Cerone"/><br />
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In 1989 Le had married a Vietnamese-French<ref name="Wygant"/> medical student and was living in Paris<ref name="Cerone"/> with her family.<ref name="Wygant"/> In a ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' article she was quoted that acting was a "one-shot deal" for her, as she had no aspirations to become a full-time actress, despite support from De Palma.<ref name="Cerone"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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[[Category:1966 births]]<br />
[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century American actresses]]<br />
[[Category:Actresses of Vietnamese descent]]<br />
[[Category:American expatriates in France]]<br />
[[Category:People from Saigon]]<br />
[[Category:Vietnamese emigrants to the United States]]<br />
[[Category:Vietnamese refugees]]</div>42.118.114.193