Bee Vang
| Bee Vang | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 4, 1991 Fresno, California, United States |
| Occupation | Actor, activist, student |
| Years active | 2008— |
Bee Vang (born November 4, 1991) is an American actor. He is the co-star of Clint Eastwood's 2008 film Gran Torino, playing the character Thao Vang Lor. Before this role, he did not have any known acting experience.
Vang was born in Fresno, California, four years after his Hmong parents emigrated from Thailand. He had five brothers and one sister.
He resided in the Twin Cities area. He grew up in a neighborhood in Minneapolis that he described as "poor." He later lived in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. For his freshman year he attended Patrick Henry High School, and he was in the University of Minnesota's advanced program. He also attended Robbinsdale Armstrong High School in Plymouth, Minnesota. Vang, before being cast in Gran Torino, had planned to go into a premed program. Due to his role in Gran Torino, Vang considered getting into filmmaking.
He attends Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. At Brown Vang planned to pursue an acting career and study filmmaking and the Chinese language. He is also part of the Asian American Students Association at Brown.
As a youth he mainly watched Asian films. In an interview Vang said that from his early teenage years he had watched various Western films, A Clockwork Orange, Heaven & Earth, Heavenly Creatures, Rambo, and other war movies. He also watched Clint Eastwood westerns, and had been a fan of Eastwood for a long period of time. Vang owned copies of several films starring Eastwood, such as Dirty Harry, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and Letters from Iwo Jima. Vang said that he had a preference for Asian films, and specifically the original language versions with English subtitles. In an interview he criticized the film Heaven & Earth.
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