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Thalia Tran

Thalia Tran is an actor, born 2007.

Three credits, and a career early enough that the shape of it is not settled yet. Thalia Tran is an American actress who came up through earlier work including Tiny Feminists and Brat TV's Hotel Du Loone, and had a run on Council of Dads as Charlotte Perry and an appearance on Sydney to the Max. None of those are among the credits listed here.

The three that are listed carry the weight. Raina in Little, opposite an age-swap comedy premise that needed its young cast to be funnier than the concept. Little Noi in Raya and the Last Dragon, the con-artist toddler with a crew of monkeys, which is a voice part in a major Disney animation and by some distance the most-seen thing she has done. And Mai in the 2024 live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender, a character defined by flat affect and precise weapon work, which is a very hard note for a young actor to hold without it reading as blankness.

It is a small filmography and there is no reason to inflate it. What it does show is that she has already worked in three different modes, animation voice, broad comedy, and straight-faced fantasy drama, and has not been bad in any of them.

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Where to start with Thalia Tran

Raya and the Last Dragon is where most people have already met her without realising it, and it is the easiest starting point: a big, handsome Disney adventure with a genuinely funny small character buried in it.

Avatar: The Last Airbender is the more interesting acting job. Mai has to be deadpan without being empty, and the difference between those two things is most of the performance. The series around her is uneven, and opinions on it split hard, but that particular casting works.

Little is the earliest and slightest of the three, an age-swap comedy that leans on its cast rather than its script. Watch it last, or not at all, unless you want to see where she started.

Genres Thalia Tran works in