Maria Tran has a BA in psychology, a black belt in taekwondo, and her own film company. She's directed a feature film, played an assassin and supervised fight choreography in the Roger Corman-produced film Fist of the Dragon, performed stunts alongside Jason Statham in monster-shark thriller The Meg, and worked with Jackie Chan.
She recently wrapped filming opposite British acting legend Tim Roth (Sundown; Reservoir Dogs) for Paramount+ series Last King of the Cross.
But most of the auditions Tran has turned up to across her career have been for unnamed characters: "Asian woman"; "tiger wife"; "sex worker"; "Japanese girl smelling underwear"; "Vietnamese mother running in a field, giving her baby away to a white woman, and then I get blown up" (that last one, twice).
