“In elementary school, I identified more with my Asian side. I had a lot of Korean friends, and then, once middle school hit, it was a little more diverse.”

American socialite and actress

Karrueche Tran is an American socialite and actress. She first came to public attention through her relationship with R&B singer Chris Brown. She was born Karrueche Tientrese Tran. Tran is known for playing Virginia Loc on the TNT series Claws and Vivian Johnson in the web series The Bay, which ran from 2013 to 2016. For The Bay, she won the 2021 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress in a Daytime Fiction Program, becoming the first person of Asian Pacific American descent to win an Emmy for Lead Actress or Actor. She also shared two Daytime Emmy Awards when The Bay won Outstanding Digital Daytime Drama Series in 2016 and 2017.