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Lana Condor
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Condor at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con
Born
Trần Đồng Lan

(1997-05-11) May 11, 1997 (age 26)
Cần Thơ, Vietnam
Nationality American
Occupation
  • Actress
  • YouTuber
Years active 2015–present
Partner(s) Anthony De La Torre (2015–present)
YouTube information
Years active 2019–present
Subscribers 810,000
(November 2, 2023)
Total views 27 million
(November 2 , 2023)

Lana Therese Condor (born Trần Đồng Lan; May 11, 1997) is an American actress and YouTuber. She made her acting debut starring as Jubilee in the superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and gained international recognition for portraying Lara Jean Covey in the romantic comedy To All the Boys film series (2018–2021). She has also portrayed Saya Kuroki in the television series Deadly Class (2019) and Koyomi in the film Alita: Battle Angel (2019). More recently, Condor voiced the titular character in the animated film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken (2023).

Early life

Born in Vietnam, Condor lived her first months in an orphanage in Cần Thơ under the name Trần Đồng Lan. On October 6, 1997 she was adopted and renamed by American parents Mary Carol Condor (née Haubold) and Bob Condor in Chicago, Illinois. Condor has an adoptive brother, Arthur. Condor and her family lived in Whidbey Island, Washington, and New York City.

Condor studied ballet as a child, training with the Whidbey Island Dance Theater, Joffrey Ballet, the Rock School for Dance Education, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She continued dancing with the Los Angeles Ballet and also trained at the Groundlings in improvisational theatre. She studied acting the New York Film Academy and Yale Summer Conservatory for Actors, and in 2014 was a theatre scholar at the California State Summer School for the Arts. As a high school freshman, she attended the Professional Performing Arts School in New York City, and graduated from Notre Dame Academy in Los Angeles in 2015. In 2016 she was accepted at Loyola Marymount University but chose to postpone it to pursue acting.

Career

Condor made her acting debut as the mutant Jubilation Lee / Jubilee in Bryan Singer's 2016 superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse. That year, she also appeared in Peter Berg's drama film Patriots Day, which depicted the events and aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing. In 2017, Condor co-starred in the Lifetime romantic thriller film High School Lover. The following year, she gained recognition for her lead role as Lara Jean Covey in Netflix's romantic drama film To All the Boys I've Loved Before, directed by Susan Johnson and based on Jenny Han's young adult novel of the same name. For the role, she was nominated for a Teen Choice Award.

In 2019, Condor portrayed the assassin Saya Kuroki in Syfy's action drama series Deadly Class, based on the Rick Remender comic book series of the same name. She also appeared as Koyomi in Robert Rodriguez's science fiction film Alita: Battle Angel based on the graphic novel series by Yukito Kishiro. Condor also voiced the character of Kaoru in the Netflix stop-motion animated series Rilakkuma and Kaoru (2019), guest starred as the voice of Casey in the Netflix series BoJack Horseman, and co-starred in the coming-of-age romantic comedy Summer Night (2019), directed by Joseph Cross.

In 2020, Condor reprised her role as Lara Jean Covey in To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, directed by Michael Fimognari, the second installment of the film series. The following year, she starred once again as Lara Jean Covey in To All the Boys: Always and Forever, the third and final installment of the trilogy. Within two months of posting her first video to YouTube in February 2020, Condor's channel had over 475,000 subscribers and more than 9.8 million views.

..... That same year, she headlined the romantic sci-fi film Moonshot as Sophie Tsukino, alongside Cole Sprouse. She has been cast in the Looney Tunes live action comedy film Coyote vs. Acme, opposite Will Forte and John Cena, prior to its cancellation in November 2023. Condor voiced the title character in the animated film Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken, which also features Forte, for DreamWorks. Her upcoming film projects include the military thriller Valiant One and the action-thriller Ballerina Overdrive.

Personal life

Condor has been in a relationship with singer and actor Anthony De La Torre since 2015. The couple announced their engagement on January 28, 2022. They live together in Seattle, Washington.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2016 X-Men: Apocalypse Jubilee
Patriots Day Li
2018 To All the Boys I've Loved Before Lara Jean Covey
2019 Alita: Battle Angel Koyomi
Summer Night Lexi
2020 To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You Lara Jean Covey
2021 To All the Boys: Always and Forever
2022 Moonshot Sophie Tsukino
2023 Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken Ruby Gillman Voice
Valiant One Selby Post-production
TBA Coyote vs. Acme

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2017 High School Lover Allison Television film
2019 Deadly Class Saya Kuroki Main role
Rilakkuma and Kaoru Kaoru Main role; Voice, English dub
BoJack Horseman Casey McGarry Voice; 2 episodes
2022 Boo, ... Erika Vu Main role

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards Best Kiss (with Noah Centineo) To All the Boys I've Loved Before Won
Teen Choice Awards Choice Drama Movie Actress Nominated
Choice Movie Ship (with Noah Centineo) Nominated
2020 Hollywood Critics Association Next Generation of Hollywood Herself Won

See also

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