Truong Minh Thao
BIOGRAPHY
Khoa, the surgeon at the centre of Mr. Cinderella and its sequel, is played by Truong Minh Thao (Vietnamese: Trương Minh Thảo), a Vietnamese actor whose credits stretch back further than most of the performers in this catalogue’s Vietnamese section. He appears in three records here: opposite Nguyen Ba Vinh in Mr. Cinderella (2021) and Mr. Cinderella 2 (2023), and in a small part as Mr. Tuan in Stupid Genius (2023).
The Movie Database records nine credits for him and gives Vietnam as his place of birth, with no city specified. The earliest is The Lost Ring in 2018, where he is credited as Ten, followed by The Vampire in 2019. His role in Mr. Cinderella is logged there as Anh Khoa across sixteen episodes, TMDB treating the two seasons as a single series rather than as separate titles the way this catalogue does.
Work after that is spread thinly but has not stopped. He turns up in Hey Old Man, Let’s Fall In Love in 2022, in a single episode of Devil’s Diner and in The Father’s Wedding Orders! as Út Tửng in 2025, and is attached to The Ultimate of Love, dated 2026. A further credit, one episode of Mặt trời lạnh, carries no year at all on TMDB. None of these has a record on this site.
The detail worth pausing on is the studio change. Mr. Cinderella and Mr. Cinderella 2 were made by O2 Production; Stupid Genius was made by RL Studio, a different company with its own regular cast. In a scene this small, where each production channel tends to reuse the same handful of faces, a performer appearing under two different banners in the same year is not a routine occurrence, and it is the clearest thing the credits show about how he works.
Very little else is documented. No birth date, no training, no agency and no awards could be confirmed from any source that could be opened and checked, and none of them is recorded here. There is no Wikipedia article and no MyDramaList entry for him. The BL Watcher reviews of the three series he appears in here supply the cast and character mapping and the names of the two studios, and are otherwise concerned with the productions rather than with him.
Two O2 Production leads, then a supporting part for a rival studio, all inside the same few years.
Vietnamese BL is made by small YouTube-based channels rather than by companies competing for the same talent pool, and each of them tends to build a stable company of performers who return season after season. The O2 roster and the RL Studio roster barely overlap anywhere else in this catalogue’s Vietnamese records.
He crossed between them, and the role he crossed for was a minor one: Mr. Tuan, one episode’s worth of screen time, in a series led by other people. That is a different kind of career move from a lead-to-lead transfer, and reading it as a promotion would be wrong.
What it does show is a working actor taking work where it is, over eight years and nine credits, rather than a performer built and kept by a single channel. That is unusual enough here to be worth stating.
PROFILE DETAILS
- Native Name
- Trương Minh Thảo
- Birthplace
- Vietnam
- Gender
- Male
- Profession
- Nationality
- Years Active
- 2018-present
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