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Actor

1983-02-01 · Thailand · Female

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Sara Ann Lane, married surname Grove, a.k.a. Sara Malakul Lane (Thai: ซาร่า มาลากุล เลน) is a Thai-American actress and former model. She has appeared in numerous Thai and Hollywood films. She most notably featured as the female lead in two films in the Kickboxer action film franchise.

Early life

Sara Malakul Lane was born in Guam to a Scottish father, Alastair Lane, and a Thai mother, Thapthim Malakul na Ayudhaya. Her mother's father, Mom Luang Pikthip Malakul, was a diplomat, including ambassador of Thailand to Myanmar and the United Kingdom; Pikthip Malakul's grandfather was one of many children of Rama II of Siam, making her King Rama's great-great-great-granddaughter. She grew up between the United Kingdom and Bangkok, where she studied at NIST International School. She lived in Los Angeles and she currently resides in Singapore.

Career

Lane, a method actress, started her acting career at the age of 15, transitioning from modeling after she won a role in her first TV series. She acted in Thai soap operas before moving to America.

Her first role in a Hollywood film was playing Steven Seagal's daughter in the 2003 film Belly of the Beast. She then starred in Sharktopus with Eric Roberts in 2010 and alongside Roberts and Peter Stormare in The Wayshower in 2011.

In 2014, she starred in Jailbait, a thriller drama film.

In 2016, she played a Bangkok detective who becomes the love interest of the lead character in Kickboxer: Vengeance, which was released in September 2016. She reprised the role in the sequel, Kickboxer: Retaliation, released in 2018.