Khanh Doan is a stage and screen actress from

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Early life and education

Doan was born in

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and moved to the

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as a child. She was a dedicated student following her immigration, but also appreciated theater. She took her first acting class in ninth grade, graduated from

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and began a professional acting career in Seattle, WA in 2003.

Career

Stage

Doan has performed onstage at

5th Avenue Theatre The 5th Avenue Theatre is a landmark theatre located in the Skinner Building, in the downtown core of Seattle, Washington, United States. It has hosted a variety of theatre productions and motion pictures since it opened in 1926. The building ...

in ''

Miss Saigon ''Miss Saigon'' is a sung-through musical theatre, stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera ''Madama Butterfly'', and similarly tells th ...

'', at Village Theater in

Jesus Christ Superstar ''Jesus Christ Superstar'' is a sung-through rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. Loosely based on the Life of Jesus in the New Testament, Gospels' accounts of Passion of Jesus, the Passion, the work interprets ...

, and at the

ACT Theatre ACT Contemporary Theatre (originally A Contemporary Theatre) is a regional, non-profit theatre organization in Seattle, in the US state of Washington. Gregory A. Falls (1922–1997) founded ACT in 1965 and served as its first Artistic director; a ...

in ''

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.'' In 2012, Doan performed the lead role of Sita in the

staged retelling of the sacred Hindu epic, ''Ramayana.'' Doan performs regularly at the Seattle Children’s Theatre (SCT) and has appeared in: ''

Sleeping Beauty "Sleeping Beauty" (, or ''The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood''; , or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess curse, cursed by an evil fairy to suspended animation in fi ...

,'' ''Harold and the Purple Crayon,'' ''

Peter Pan Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythical ...

,'' ''The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, '' ''Art Dog'' ''Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like,'' ''Busytown,'' ''

High School Musical ''High School Musical'' is a 2006 American Musical film, musical television film produced by and aired on Disney Channel as part of the network's List of Disney Channel original films, slate of original television films. The first installmen ...

,'' ''Lyle the Crocodile,'' and ''Go, Dog Go.''

Film

On screen, Doan has appeared with

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in '' The Knights of Badassdom'', with

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in ''

Switchmas ''Switchmas'' (earlier titles ''Ira Finkelstein's Christmas'' and ''All I Want Is Christmas'') is an American musical comedy film directed by Sue Corcoran. It tells the story of a Christmas-obsessed Jewish boy on his way to sunny Florida who figu ...

'', with

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in '' Leverage'', and with

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'' in

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.'' Doan has also appeared in several

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projects including ''Simply Fobulous,'' ''God Machine,'' ''Family'' and the

Seattle International Film Festival The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) is a film festival held annually in Seattle, Washington, United States, since 1976. It usually takes place in late May and/or early June. It is one of the largest festivals in the world, and feature ...

Fly Film ''Safe Passage.'' Doan currently stars as Khanh, the Red

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Warrior in the Original

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Series, '' Chop Socky Boom''.

Games

Doan voices characters in ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy.''Khanh Doan
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References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Doan, Khanh American film actresses Living people Filmmakers from Seattle Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women