Kuoth Wiel is a South-Sudanese-

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model and actress, best known for her role in ''

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'' (2014), a drama film portraying four child refugees from war-torn Sudan.

Life

Wiel was born in a

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Itang Itang (also spelled ''Etang'';"Census 2007"
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, the daughter of

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relief workers.Euan Kerr
'The Good Lie' treads close to Sudanese refugee life, Minnesota actress says

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, October 16, 2014. She spent her early life moving between

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, where her father was a doctor, and Gambela in Ethiopia.Jhoni Jackson
Kuoth Wiel's American Dream
papermag.com, 4 July 2018. Her father died when she was five. Wiel and her mother immigrated to the United States in 1998, when she was about eight years old, and settled in

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. She was a psychology student at

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when she applied to act in ''

''. After graduation, she moved to

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where she currently works as a model.

Filmography

* ''The Good Lie'', 2014

References

External links

* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people South Sudanese female models South Sudanese actresses American female models American actresses Augsburg University alumni South Sudanese emigrants to the United States 21st-century American women {{SouthSudan-bio-stub