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Gran Torino. Gran Torino is a 2008 American drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, who also starred in the film. This was Eastwood's first starring role since 2004's Million Dollar Baby. The film features a large Hmong-American cast (the first time for an American mainstream film), [4] as well as one of Eastwood's younger sons, Scott.
OCLC. 47352453. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos, [1] the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California.
November 4, 1991 (age 32) Fresno, California, U.S. Occupation (s) Actor, activist. Years active. 2008βpresent. Bee Vang ( RPA: Npis Vaj, Pahawh: π¬π¬°π¬¨π¬΅ π¬π¬°π¬, Chinese-Mandarin: ηι; born November 4, 1991) is an American actor and activist of Hmong descent. He is best known for starring in Clint Eastwood 's 2008 film Gran ...
Luj Yaj ( Pahawh: π¬π¬Άπ¬ π¬π¬°π¬€) is a popular Hmong singer from Thailand. [citation needed] He is considered to be one of the most well known of Hmong singers to date. He gained notoriety when two of his songs appeared in a Hmong dubbed Thai film called "Kev Hlub Txiav Tsis Tau". [1] Those two songs were "Nco Koj Ib Leeg" (Miss You ...
James Hong filmography. James Hong is an American character actor, producer and director who has appeared in more than 600 films, TV shows and video games. [1] His career began in the 1950s when he redubbed soundtracks of several Asian films. Notable roles include Hannibal Chew in Blade Runner (1982), David Lo Pan in Big Trouble in Little China ...
Hmong Americans ( RPA: Hmoob Mes Kas, Pahawh Hmong: " π¬π¬£π¬΅ π¬π¬²π¬¦ π¬π¬² ") are Americans of Hmong ancestry. Many Hmong Americans immigrated to the United States as refugees in the late 1970s. Over half of the Hmong population from Laos left the country, or attempted to leave, in 1975, at the culmination of the Laotian Civil War .
This is a list of some well-known Hmong individuals throughout the world. The Hmong are an Asian ethnic group from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. List. Ahney Her, actress, best known as Sue Lor in Gran Torino; April Yang, YouTube star with over 2 million subscribers
Hmong or Mong ( / ΛmΚΕ / MUNG; RPA: Hmoob, Nyiakeng Puachue: ππ©π° β, Pahawh: π¬π¬£π¬΅, [mΜ₯ΙΜΜ]) is a dialect continuum of the West Hmongic branch of the Hmongic languages spoken by the Hmong people of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hainan, northern Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos. [2]