Biography

Lana Condor (2026)

Posted on Aug 18, 2026, Modified : Aug 19, 2026 admin

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Who is Lana Condor?

Lana Condor, also known as Tran Dong Lan is a well-known Vietnamese-born American actress where; she was popularly known for her role as Lara Jean Covey from the movie To All the Boys I Have Loved Before. She was also known as a YouTuber, and her channel has continued to grow, and as of 2026 she has around 766,000 subscribers. In her career, she has been actively working from 2016 to the present, and her workload has only picked up in the last couple of years.

Quick Info
Full Name	Tran Dong Lan
Date of Birth	May 11, 1997
Birth Place	Cần Thơ, Vietnam
Parent(s)	Mary Carol and Bob Condor
Occupation	Actress, YouTuber
Spouse	Anthony De La Torre
Net worth	$3 million

Personal Life

Lana Condor was born on May 11, 1997, in Can Tho, Vietnam, where she was born as an orphanage named Tran Dong Lan. Later, she was adopted by an American parent on October 6, known as Mary Carol and Bob Condor in Chicago, Illinois, and her parents renamed her name. She had also got an adoptive brother, who is known as Arthur. Bob Condor, who had adopted Lana, is a two-time Pulitzer-nominated journalist who worked formerly at the Chicago Tribune. He also used to be a vice president of Yahoo Sports media, and now, he became the producer for the Seattle Kraken. Condor lived a comfortable life in Whidbey Island, Washington, and New York with her family.

Relationship

Condor is married to Anthony De La Torre, who is an actor and musician. They got married in 2024. In early 2025, the couple celebrated a second wedding ceremony at their California home, which doubled as the venue for the event.

Nationality and Physical Stats

An American family adopted Lana Condor, so she holds an American nationality belonging to Vietnamese ethnic background. She is currently 29 years old with a height of 5 feet 3 inches (160 cm/1.6m) and weighs 53 kg. She has got the body structure of 35-24-35, where she has black hair with a dark brown eye. As she was born on May 11, her zodiac sign is Taurus.

Early Life and Education

When Lana Condor was in her childhood, she used to study ballet, where she also trained from Whidbey Island Dance Theater company Joffrey Ballet. She appeared in The Rock School for Dance Education, as well as in Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. After that, she keeps up dancing with the Los Angeles Ballet, and then, she was trained at The Groundlings in improvisational theatre.

Besides, she was seen at the New York Film Academy, where she had attended some acting classes. Then, she was also seen at Yale Summer Conservatory theatre for actors, and at the California State Summer School for the Arts, she became a theatre scholar in 2014. Later, she studied at the Professional Performing Arts School as a high-school freshman. After that, she completed her graduation from the high-school Notre Dame Academy Girls High School in 2015, located in Los Angeles, and then she appeared at Loyola Marymount University.

Career

Lana Condor began her career in acting after being cast as mutant Jubilation Lee or known as Jubilee, a fictional superhero character of comic books in the superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse. In the same year, she was seen in the drama film Patriots Day by Peter Berg, representing the events that were happening and the consequences of the Boston Marathon bombing that happened on April 15, 2013.

Later, Lana Condor had the chance to be the part of Lifetime romantic thriller movie High School Lover with James Franco and Julia Jones. After that, she was cast in the lead role to play in the romantic drama movie To All the Boys I Have Loved Before as a Lara Jean Covey on Netflix which was directed by Susan Johnson. The drama movie To All the Boys I Have Loved Before is based on the young adult novel by Jenny Han, where the name is also the same. Condor earned lots of popularity for her role in this movie, and everyone appreciated her outstanding performance.

After that, she was seen in the drama series Deadly Class, an American television series, where she portrayed Saya Kuroki as a killer. Later, she also got a role in the science fiction movie Alita: Battle Angel by Robert Rodriguez, where she played as a Koyomi. This movie was produced by James Cameron where it is also based on the graphic novel series by Rilakkuma and Kaoru.

She has also provided her voice in Rilakkuma and Kaoru, which is the Netflix stop-motion animated series as a Kaoru in 2019. Besides, she was seen in the Netflix series, providing her voice as Casey in BoJack Horseman. In 2019, she also appeared in a romantic comedy movie by Joseph Cross called Summer Night.

Later, Lana Condor repeated her role in a teen romantic movie by Michael Fimognari called To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, as the second installment of the Lara Jean Covey film series. Then, she played a role in Girls Night, and again reprised her role as Lara Jean Convey in the third movie of the series To All the Boys: Always and Forever, Lara Jean.

She had also made her YouTube channel where subscriber and view counts have kept climbing since the channel launched.

New Roles and New Chapters

The workload for Condor expanded significantly after 2024. She played army medic Stephanie Selby in the 2025 military thriller Valiant One, and took on the role of Leah in Worth the Wait, a romantic comedy pitched as an Asian-American take on Love Actually. She also guest-starred as Peyton Ramsey in an episode of the CBS series Elsbeth in late 2025.

Her slate continued to grow into 2026: she starred as Princess in the action-thriller Pretty Lethal, completed work on the animated film Coyote vs. Acme, and signed on to lead the BuzzFeed Studios romantic comedy Whodunnit as Tess Klein. She also joined the Amazon MGM Studios survival thriller The Devils Mouth alongside Kathryn Newton, currently in post-production.

Notably, Condor returned to the franchise that made her a household name, reuniting with co-star Anna Cathcart to reprise Lara Jean Covey in season three of the Netflix spin-off series XO, Kitty. Outside of acting, she also fronted a 3M-produced climate docuseries called Green Works, spotlighting people working on environmental solutions.

Achievement

In the career of Lana Condor, she showed her outstanding performance in the drama film To All the Boys I Have Loved Before, where she was nominated for a Teen Choice Award.