Angela Rockwood

Who is Angela Rockwood?

Angela Rockwood is an American model and actress, best known for her roles in The Fast and the Furious and the syndicated television series V.I.P. She was publicly married to actor Dustin Nguyen in September 2001, having secretly eloped and married in February of the same year. They separated a decade later.

After a car she was travelling in on Interstate 5 to Los Angeles from San Francisco was involved in an accident on September 3, 2001, in which fellow actress Thuy Trang was killed, she was paralyzed and diagnosed as a C4-5 quadriplegic. Doctors gave her a 3% chance of regaining motor skills and feeling below her neck. Through physical therapy, she regained partial motion in her left index finger two months after the accident. Three months after the accident, she could touch the top of her head.

In 2003, Rockwood received Stem cell treatments in Portugal that allowed her to eventually use a manual wheelchair.

In 2012, The Sundance Channel announced the creation of the series Push Girls, a reality television series about living with paralysis in Hollywood produced by Gay Rosenthal, which starred Rockwood among "four dynamic, outspoken and beautiful women" in the Los Angeles area.