Personal life
Born in Detroit in 1972 [1] to a Franco-Vietnamese mother from Saigon [1] and a father with Irish and Native American ancestry, [1] Duval's family moved to Los Angeles when he was 2 years old. [1] He grew up around the Greater Los Angeles area, going to elementary school in Redondo Beach before graduating from Gladstone High School in Covina in 1989. [1] As a teenager in his early career with Gregg Araki's Teenage Apocalypse films, he identified with the themes of nihilism, social alienation and not fitting in: [4] [5] "I was 18 and living that, searching for myself who I was, where I belonged. I was really confused. Working with Gregg gave me something to move towards. ... there were things I was feeling—that I wasn’t liked, that there were things I couldn’t do to fit in. I was attracted to alternative music and feeling what they were singing about, even though I hadn’t really lived. I was so distraught. I was only 18–19. Everything weighed on that on a daily basis. It was so intense, and almost overwhelming." [4]
In a 1997 interview promoting Araki's Nowhere , as well as discussing the racism he experienced in his youth, [6] he expressed frustration with being asked about his sexuality as a result of playing queer roles, and mentioned that he was dating his Nowhere co-star Sarah Lassez. [6]
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