Tiana Alexandra
Tiana Alexandra (also Tiana Alexandra - Silliphant, Tiana Thi Thanh Nga (Vietnamese name), Tiana Banana or just Tiana, born August 11, 1961 Thi Thanh Nga in Hanoi, North Vietnam ) is a Vietnamese- American actress, film director and film producer.
Life and career
Little is known about the life of the 1961 in the capital of the then North Vietnam -born Thi Thanh Nga under the name Tiana Alexandra. In 1966, she was the daughter of a major Vietnamese government family to the United States where she also completed her education. After she mastered her high school diploma at the age of 15 years, she moved to Hollywood, where they hoped for a successful career as an actress. It is considered a single woman who was personally trained and coached by Bruce Lee in martial arts. Other reports, however, look upon this fact as Alexandra would have been at that time in childhood and Bruce Lee died in 1973, when Alexandra was just twelve years old. Her first major film role was in young Jahrens when she The Killer Elite took on a supporting role in the film. Still at a young age, she took over in 1978 in the three-part miniseries Pearl (including Pearl Harbor ) a significant role. After a few years without significant commitment she took a lead role in the movie Fly Away Home, where she was to be seen, among other things on the side of spectacle size Bruce Boxleitner. Among other things, she was already active in several low-budget karate films during this period, but could not celebrate major successes with the films. This was followed a few years back without notable productions before she returned in 1987, returns to the screen as she Catch the Heat in the female counterpart to Bruce Lee represented and in the same year on the side of Jane Kaczmarek, Art LaFleur and Tori Spelling was seen in The Three Kings. In 1992, she led the movie From Hollywood to Hanoi directed the film. The film was at the Sundance Film Festival in 1993 for the " Grand Jury Prize " in the category: documentation nominated but did not win. In 2011 she worked as associate producer on the film A Dangerous Method.
Tiana Alexandra was married from 1974 until his death in 1996 with screenwriter Stirling Silliphant.
Filmography (selection)
- 2011: A Dangerous Method