Jillian Nguyen

Nguyen was born Nguyen Tran Huyen Dieu in a camp for Vietnamese refugees in Sungai Besi, Malaysia. Her parents had fled Vietnam separately, met in the camp in 1990 and were married, then stayed in the camp until the family was granted refugee status in Australia in 1994. Nguyen was 14 months old when the family arrived in Australia. She grew up in Melbourne, graduated from the University of Melbourne, and pursued additional acting training at Melbourne's 16th Street Actors Studio.
After acting on stage in a 2018 production of the Daniel Keene play The Serpent's Teeth, Nguyen began her screen career with a brief appearance in the 2019 film True History of the Kelly Gang. In 2020 she appeared as Sophie Tran in Hungry Ghosts, a four-episode ensemble drama about the lives of Vietnamese families in Australia that was written by Vietnamese-Australian screenwriters and starred several Vietnames…