Trang's father was a South Vietnamese army officer who fled the country in after the fall of Saigon , leaving his family behind. When Trang was six, she and her mother and brothers boarded a cargo ship bound for Hong Kong , a difficult journey during which Trang became very ill. They reunited with Trang's father in the United States in and settled in California.
She enrolled at the University of California, Irvine to study civil engineering , but switched her focus to acting after a talent scout spotted her. Trang was chosen for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers , her first major role, after participating in an audition process that included about actresses. Like the other cast members, Trang mostly portrayed her character in scenes when she was out of her Power Rangers uniform; the in-costume fight scenes were footage adapted from the long-running Japanese television series Super Sentai , with Trang's voice dubbed over the action.
Trang appeared in 80 episodes in the series, which included the entire first season, and the first twenty episodes of the second. She performed many of her own stunts, and was repeatedly hurt on the set. She had a brief appearance in the film Spy Hard , and played one of the lead villains in the film The Crow: City of Angels Trang had planned to appear in several films along with St.
John and Jones, but none were ultimately made. Trang died in a car crash at the age of She had two brothers and one sister. After the fall of Saigon in , he was forced to leave his family behind and fled the country, immigrating to the United States. They fled Saigon when Trang was two years old.
In when Trang was five, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] she and her family secretly boarded a cargo ship bound for Hong Kong. The trip lasted about eight or nine months, and at least four people died. At one point, the other passengers wrongly believed Trang to be dead and wanted to throw her body overboard to make more room for the other refugees, but her mother prevented them from doing so. Trang did not speak English upon first arriving in the United States and had to learn it.
