Minnesota will always be his home and where his heart will always be.
Born in a refugee camp in Thailand, Doua Moua was six months old when his family migrated to the Twin Cities.
Credit to Ms. Everitt, his choir and drama teacher in middle school who convinced Doua to audition for “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder that got him smitten with acting.
Since then he has acted in off-Broadway play, indie films, television show eventually in 2008 landed him the role on Clint Eastwood project entitled “Gran Torino”. The Academy Award Actor-Director made an impression on Doua, “loyalty to the people he works with”. “His sense of family is amazing,” he said.
Doua talks about being surrounded by women who have supported him all throughout the journey, his sisters were there, who have made the road he is traveling bearable.
Other than acting, he finds time to write a screenplay, currently at works is “The Harvest”. “Being a Hmong actor and trying to make it in Hollywood is a hard road,” he says. “They use Asian ethnicity to market toward a particular market, like the Chinese market, the Japanese market, the Korean market. So just being a minority within a minority is hard.” [Courtesy of Mspls St. Paul]
Working with Eastwood, now with Niki Caro on Mulan, “they believed in me. They allowed me to bring myself and my character to life.” [Courtesy of Mspls St. Paul]
