Dianne Doan

Dianne Doan

Born: September 8, 1990
in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Dianne Doan is a Canadian actress of Vietnamese descent. She was born on September 8, 1990 in Abbotsford, British Columbia. She first developed an interest in acting in the 9th grade when she took drama classes as an elective. She started technical training in dance at the age of 10.

Doan has a background in dance and has performed as a dancer at the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony and as a back-up dancer for Michael Bublé. She has also worked as a dancer in music videos for other recording artists like Big Time Rush and Marianas Trench.

Doan's first major acting role was in the Disney Channel Original Movie Descendants as Lonnie, the daughter of Mulan and Li Shang. She reprised her role in the sequel Descendants 2. She has also had recurring roles on the television series Vikings and Guidance.

In 2017, Doan joined the cast of the Cinemax series Warrior as Mai Ling. The series is produced by filmmaker Justin Lin and based on an original concept by the late Bruce Lee.

Doan is currently filming the upcoming television series The Boys Presents: Varsity, a spin-off of the Amazon Prime Video series The Boys. She will play the role of Nyla, a powerful superhero.

Movies for Dianne Doan...

Title: Tracker
Character: Sun Mai
Released: February 11, 2024
Type: TV
Lone-wolf survivalist Colter Shaw roams the country as a “reward seeker,” using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries while contending with his own fractured family.
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Title: The Consultant
Character: Ghislane
Released: February 23, 2023
Type: TV
After an unspeakable tragedy at CompWare, a games studio based in downtown Los Angeles, a mysterious consultant, Regus Patoff, blows into town and takes charge.
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Title: We Gon' Be Alright
Released: May 14, 2019
Type: TV
"We Gon' Be Alright" is a digital series that explores the social divide over race in the 21st Century United States. Inspired by Jeff Chang's best-selling, critically acclaimed collection of essays, we discover a nation of historically unprecedented diversity becoming more separate and more unequal. Each episode examines a different aspect of a profound puzzle: Silicon Valley resegregation, Hollywood images, Harvard admissions, and more. The series asks the questions: why and how did we become so divided? What can we do now to be alright?
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Title: Warrior
Character: Mai Ling
Released: April 5, 2019
Type: TV
A gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who immigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances, and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most powerful tongs.
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Our Home Here
Title: Our Home Here
Character: Rose
Released: March 22, 2019
Type: Movie
Parallel stories of broken relationships between parents and their children striving for the American Dream all revolving around one explosive night at a fast food joint in Texas.
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Title: Good Trouble
Character: Kate Nguyen
Released: January 8, 2019
Type: TV
After moving to The Coterie in Downtown Los Angeles, Callie and Mariana Foster realize that living on their own is not all that it’s cracked up to be.
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Descendants 2
Title: Descendants 2
Character: Lonnie
Released: July 21, 2017
Type: Movie
When the pressure to be royal becomes too much for Mal, she returns to the Isle of the Lost where her archenemy Uma, Ursula's daughter, has taken her spot as self-proclaimed queen.
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Last Night in Suburbia
Title: Last Night in Suburbia
Character: Rachel
Released: January 21, 2017
Type: Movie
A teen comedy follows a group as it tries to have one last night of summer fun, only to be usurped by the world's worst undercover cop.
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The Game of Love
Title: The Game of Love
Character: Miss Tzu
Released: May 15, 2016
Type: Movie
The family of a basketball club's president conspires to force him to sell it.
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Title: DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Character: Anh Ly
Released: January 21, 2016
Type: TV
When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?
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Title: Descendants: Wicked World
Character: Lonnie (voice)
Released: September 18, 2015
Type: TV
After Ben's coronation in Descendants, the villain kids Mal, Evie, Carlos and Jay settle in at being good while their villainous parents are still roaming the Isle of the Lost. The story goes deeper at the arrival of new villain kids, Freddie (Dr. Facilier's daughter), CJ (Captain Hook's daughter) and Zevon (Yzma's son).
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Descendants
Title: Descendants
Character: Lonnie
Released: July 31, 2015
Type: Movie
A present-day idyllic kingdom where the benevolent teenage son of King Adam and Queen Belle offers a chance of redemption for the troublemaking offspring of Disney's classic villains: Cruella De Vil (Carlos), Maleficent (Mal), the Evil Queen (Evie) and Jafar (Jay).
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Title: Descendants: School of Secrets
Character: Secret Blogger - Lonnie
Released: July 2, 2015
Type: TV
An unidentified girl (Lonnie) sets up a hidden camera to capture Auradon Prep's secrets. Her goal is to expose the "real" Auradon and release hidden camera footage to the public. But when Prince Ben announces that villain kids are on their way to Auradon, the hidden camera begins to reveal all sorts of attitudes, secrets, and anxieties before the villain kids' arrival.
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Title: Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Character: Kora
Released: September 24, 2013
Type: TV
Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary.
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Title: Vikings
Character: Yidu
Released: March 3, 2013
Type: TV
The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
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Title: Once Upon a Time
Character: Isra
Released: October 23, 2011
Type: TV
There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell. Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who has been supporting herself since she was abandoned as a baby. Things change for her when her son Henry, whom she abandoned years ago, finds her and asks for her help explaining that she is from a different world where she is Snow White's missing daughter.
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Better Half
Title: Better Half
Character: Daphne
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
According to myth, humans once had eight limbs and two faces until Zeus split us, making us half of a whole. But when a hopeless romantic and a serial polygamist quite literally find their other half when their bodies fuse during sex. The haphazard journey to come undone might just reveal what they’d been missing all along.