ROANOKE, Va. – A Roanoke native is living a Hollywood dream. Alex Huynh plays the Monkey King in the Oscar-winning film “Sinners.”
Huynh attended Northside High School and trained in martial arts at Shaolin Dragons Martial Arts Academy in Roanoke. That training gave him the foundation to pursue performing, choreography and film work.
“When I was living in Roanoke, I had a lot of thoughts and feelings and ideas that I wanted to share with the world, but I didn’t know how to,” Huynh said. “And the arts and martial arts gave me an outlet to express it.”…