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Dustin Nguyen (born Nguyễn Xuân Trí) (September 17, 1962) is a Vietnamese-American actor and martial artist. He is best known for his roles as Harry Truman Ioki on 21 Jump Street and as Johnny Loh on V.I.P. Recently, he starred as Zing in the Cinemax/Max martial arts crime drama series Warrior. In film, he is known for starring in Little Fish, The Doom Generation and The Rebel.
In his teens, his family arrived in Guam as refugees, and then the family was moved to a refugee camp in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. Finally with the assistance of a Methodist church they relocated to Des Peres, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. The 21 Jump Street season 2 episode "Christmas in Saigon", which first aired in December 1987, is based in his experiences escaping Vietnam and eventually arriving in the United States; Nguyen also served as a technical advisor in the episode.
Nguyen graduated from Garden Grove High School in Garden Grove, California, he attended Orange Coast College and majored in communications but later dropped out to pursue acting full time.
Nguyen practices several martial arts including Muay Thai, Tae Kwon Do, Eskrima, and Jeet Kune Do.
Nguyen continues to act and make films in Vietnam full-time. He made his feature directorial debut in the Vietnamese fantasy film Once Upon a Time in Vietnam, in which he also starred. He then starred in the Vietnamese film Gentle that premiered at the 2015 Busan International Film Festival where he received strong reception for his performance.
He was cast in Cinemax's Warrior in a recurring role before he officially joined the main cast in season two of the series.
Nguyen also was cast in The Accidental Getaway Driver which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Nguyen is based in Vietnam full-time. In 2012, he married Vietnamese actress-model Bebe Pham with whom he has four daughters.
He is fluent in English and Vietnamese.
| Sunset Strip | Chinese Youth| | ||
| Earth Angel | Peter| | ||
| Rapid Fire | Paul Yang| | ||
| No Escape, No Return | Tommy Cuff| | ||
| Heaven & Earth | Sau| | ||
| 3 Ninjas Kick Back | Glam| | ||
| Vanishing Son II | |||
| Vanishing Son IV | |||
| Virtuosity | Suburban Reporter| | ||
| The Doom Generation | Quickiemart Clerk| | ||
| Hundred Percent | Isaac| | ||
| The Break | |||
| Little Fish | Jonny|Actor | ||
| Troy Poon| | |||
| Saigon Eclipse | Kim| | ||
| The Rebel | Sy|Actor | ||
| The Legend Is Alive | Long|Actor | ||
| Fool for Love | Dung| | ||
| Floating Lives | Vo|Actor | ||
| The Gauntlet | Jin-Soo| | ||
| Popular Dysfunctions | Comandante Chitt| | ||
| Once Upon a Time in Vietnam | Dao| Director/Actor | ||
| 22 Jump Street | Vietnamese Jesus/Harry Truman Ioki| Cameo | ||
| The Man with the Iron Fists 2 | Li Kung|Actor | ||
| Jackpot | Tu Nghia|Director/Actor | ||
| Zero Tolerance | Johnny|Actor | ||
| Gentle | Thien| Actor | ||
| I'll Wait | Director | ||
| Voodoo Doll | Hung| Actor | ||
| Blade of the 47 Ronin | Lord Nikko| Actor | ||
| 2023 | The Accidental Getaway Driver | Tây | Actor |
| 2 episodes | |||
| Episode: "Point of No Return" | |||
| Episode: "Pai Gow" | |||
| Main role (seasons 1–4); 82 episodes | |||
| Episode: "Open Book" | |||
| Episode: "Charlie Don't Surf" | |||
| Episode: "Bad Choices" | |||
| Episode: "The Road Not Taken" | |||
| Episode: "A Death in Hong Kong" | |||
| Episode: "Revenge of the Sword" | |||
| 4 episodes | |||
| 5 episodes | |||
| Episode: "Single Flame" | |||
| Episode: "Simon's Choice" | |||
| Episode: "Flying Fists of Fury II" | |||
| Main role; 13 episodes | |||
| Main role (seasons 3–4); 62 episodes | |||
| Episode: "Fortunate Son" | |||
| Episode: "Chaos Theory" | |||
| Episode 2.2: "Vietnam" | |||
| Season 1 | |||
| Episode: "Sometimes" | |||
| 2019–2023 | Warrior | Zing | Recurring (season 1); main role (season 2) |
| 2025 | Dope Thief | Son Pham | Upcoming miniseries |
In 2015, at the Milan International Film Festival, Dustin won the Leonardo da Vinci Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor in the Vietnamese film Gentle; an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's A Gentle Creature.
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