Full Name: Trini Kwan
Trini was the original Yellow Ranger on Mighty Mophin Power Rangers. She stongly believes in honesty and justice. She trained kung - fu following the grace and skill of a preying mantis. The character of Trini left the show to attend a peace conferance in Switzerland. Zordon, gave Trini the powers of the Sabertooth Tiger, to match her personality.
Ranger: Yellow Mighty Morphin Power Ranger
Special Weapons: Power Daggers
Personal Zord: Sabertooth Tiger Dinozord
The character of Trini Kwan was played by actress Thuy Trang, who passed away on September 3rd, 2001 in a car accident. She was born in Hanoi, Vietnam on December 14th, 1973. She and her family left Veitnam, after an invasion in their city in 1979. It wasn't until 1990, when she was offered the job of being "Trini Kwan", did she appear on television. Thuy will be missed by all of her fans worldwide, especially those of us who were lucky to catch a glimps of her on Power Rangers.
The following article is from goldsea.com
Think you've got a rough work-week. Try being Thuy Trang.Six days a week, for nine months a year, the 21-year-old would wake at 4:30 a.m. and drive an hour from her West Hollywood apartment to the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers set in Valencia. Filming would begin at 6:30 and wrap up 12 hours later. She'd get home at 7:30 and hit the sack within an hour.
After wrestling with this grueling routine for two years, Trang left the top rated after-school TV show last November to escape being enslaved to the Pushup Pop set and launch a feature film career. "I thought it was time to move on and take advantage of my popularity" says Trang.She has plenty of notoriety to exploit. Crowds of 40,000 turned out to see her and the other rangers, as they traveled the country on a charity fund-raising tour last summer. And during a recent photo-shoot at a Malibu elementary school, Trang was mobbed by the fresh-faced offspring of Hollywood's biggest stars.
Thanks to this thriving audience base, Trang has found herself in the enviable position of being offered numerous projects. She's currently committed to two feature films, one NBC TV movie and a series. She'll play the lead in both -- Cyberstrike, an action adventure, and The Adventures of Tracie Z. Some actors' early success stems from phenomenal drive and tunnel vision, but Trang stumbled into Hollywood three years ago, just as she luckily drifted onto the California shores in 1979.
The third of four siblings, Trang was born in Vietnam in 1973. At 6 her family emigrated to America aboard a cargo ship packed with refugees. Trang was so sickly that the other passengers wanted to throw her overboard to save food and water for the healthy. But her mother fought to save Trang, fending off the mob and force-feeding her unconscious daughter.
Some friends introduced Trang to a young talent agent who offered to represent Trang. Through him, she landed two commercials. Then he had her audition for the Power Rangers, telling her to "just wing it and have fun."
After the third reading, the show's producer called Trang's performance "adorable," but said she needed to improve her martial arts skills and advised her to get a private trainer. Trang shrugged it off.
Three days later the producer phoned to say he had arranged a training session for her with a top martial arts instructor. Three days after that Trang got the part.
"I definitely think opportunities for Asian actresses are improving," Trang says. "When I traveled the country appearing at charity events, I found the people judged me for my performance. They didn't say, 'Hey look, it's that Asian girl.'"
Filmography:
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers "Trini Kwan, Yellow Ranger" 1993 - 1994
Spy Hard "Masseuse" 1996
The Crow: City of Angels "Kali" 1996