Meet Kelly Marie Tran.

Unless, you’ve been living under a rock, she plays mechanic “Rose Tico” in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”.

Her role makes her the FIRST Asian-American woman to play a lead in a Star Wars film.
This past summer, she became the First Asian woman to appear on the cover of Vanity Fair.
HISTORIC: Kelly Marie Tran is the FIRST Asian woman to appear on the front-page cover of Vanity Fair #StarWars pic.twitter.com/j0TeNvwVv4
— nerdy (@nerdyasians) May 23, 2017
However her backstory is even more inspiring. Her parents are refugees who fled the Vietnam War to start a new life in the U.S.
