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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{infobox person |
| name = Kuoth Wiel
| nationality = Ethiopian
| occupation = actress
| education = Augsburg College}}
'''Kuoth Wiel''' is a [[South Sudan|South-Sudanese]]-[[United States|American]] model and actress, best known for her role in ''[[The Good Lie]]'' (2014), a drama film portraying four child refugees from war-torn Sudan.
==Life==
Wiel was born in a [[refugee camp]] in [[Itang]], [[Ethiopia]], the daughter of [[united Nations]] relief workers.<ref name=MPR>Euan Kerr, [https://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/10/16/the-good-lie-kuoth-wiel-sudan-civil-war 'The Good Lie' treads close to Sudanese refugee life, Minnesota actress says] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116043219/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/10/16/the-good-lie-kuoth-wiel-sudan-civil-war |date=November 16, 2018 }}, [[MPR News]], October 16, 2014.</ref> She spent her early life moving between [[Nasir,_South_Sudan|Nasir]] in [[South Sudan]], where her father was a doctor, and [[Gambela Region|Gambela]] in Ethiopia.<ref name=papermag>Jhoni Jackson, [http://www.papermag.com/sudanese-2583808855.html Kuoth Wiel's American Dream] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116043813/http://www.papermag.com/sudanese-2583808855.html |date=November 16, 2018 }}, [[papermag.com]], July 4, 2018.</ref> 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 [[Faribault, Minnesota]].
She was a psychology student at [[Augsburg College]] when she applied to act in ''[[The Good Lie]]''.<ref name=MPR/> After graduation, she moved to [[Los Angeles]] where she currently works as a model.<ref name=papermag/>
==Filmography==
* ''The Good Lie'', 2014
==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb name|6027546|Kuoth Wiel}}
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[[Category:South Sudanese female models]]
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[[Category:21st-century American women]]
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