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Lana Therese Condor (born Tran Dong 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 soon received recognition for portraying Lara Jean Covey in the To All the Boys franchise (2018–2021). She has also portrayed Saya Kuroki in the television series Deadly Class (2019), and Koyomi in the film Alita: Battle Angel (2019).
Early life[]
Born in Vietnam, she lived her first months in an orphanage in Cần Thơ under the name Tran Dong Lan. On October 6, 1997, still a baby at under five months, she was adopted and renamed by American parents Mary Carol (née Haubold) and Bob Condor in Chicago, Illinois. Condor has an adoptive brother, Arthur. Bob Condor is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist who formerly worked at the Chicago Tribune, was the vice president of Yahoo Sports media, and is currently a producer for the Seattle NHL team. 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. Condor took acting classes at 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, Condor was educated at the Professional Performing Arts School in New York City. In 2015, she graduated from Notre Dame Academy in Los Angeles. In 2016, Condor was accepted at Loyola Marymount University but chose to defer enrollment 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 appeared in Peter Berg's drama film Patriots Day, depicting the events and aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing.
In 2017, Condor co-starred in the Lifetime romantic thriller film High School Lover, alongside James Franco and Julia Jones, which premiered on Lifetime. The following year, she gained worldwide fame for playing the lead role of 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, produced by James Cameron and 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 film of the film series. She has been cast alongside Brianna Hildebrand in the Marianna Palka-directed comedy Girls Night. She is slated to star once again as Lara Jean Covey in To All the Boys: Always and Forever, Lara Jean, the third installment of the series.
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.
Personal Life[]
Condor has been dating 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 |
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2016 | "X-Men: Apocalypse" | Jubilee | |
2016 | "Patriots Day" | Li | |
2018 | "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" | Lara Jean Covey | |
2019 | "Alita: Battle Angel" | Koyomi | |
2019 | "Summer Night" | Lexi | |
2020 | "To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You" | Lara Jean Covey | |
2020 | "Girls Night" | Alex | |
2021 | "To All the Boys: Always and Forever, Lara Jean" | Lara Jean Covey | ' |
Television[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2017 | "High School Lover" | Allison | Television film |
2019 | "Deadly Class" | Saya Kuroki | Main role |
2019 | "Rilakkuma and Kaoru" | Kaoru (voice; English dub) | Main role |
2019 | "BoJack Horseman" | Casey McGarry (voice) | 2 episodes |
Awards and nominations[]
Year | Work | Award | Category | Result |
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2019 | "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" | MTV Movie & TV Awards | Best Kiss (with Noah Centineo) | Won |
2019 | "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" | Teen Choice Awards | Choice Drama Movie Actress | Nominated |
2019 | To All the Boys I've Loved Before | Teen Choice Awards | Choice Movie Ship (with Noah Centineo) |
Trivia[]
- She is 5'2" tall.