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Thalia Tran

American actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ106406064
Source-derived summary

Thalia Tran is an American actress best known for her roles as Little Noi in Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), Charlotte Perry in Council of Dads (2020), Raina in Little (2019), and Mai in Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024). She has also appeared in Tiny Feminists (2016), Brat TV's Hotel Du Loone (2018) and Disney Channel's Sydney to the Max (2020).

Early life

Tran was born in Newport Beach, California and is of Vietnamese descent. As a child, Tran took vocal lessons. Her vocal teacher recommended for her to take acting lessons to improve her performance skills. She is also able to play the piano and guitar.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Thalia Tran” is american actress. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Thalia, Tran and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2020, 2019, 2024—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006-05-20. For this dossier, Thalia, Tran and American is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “american actress” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q106406064. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2024.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Thalia Tran” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.