The truth won out.
A B-movie actress yesterday lost her landmark lawsuit against IMDb.com after claiming she was denied roles in Hollywood because the film Web site outed her real age.
“We’re devastated,” actress Junie Hoang, 41, told The Post. “But I believed the issues were worth fighting for.”
Hoang had claimed that her work in mostly low-budget films — which included “Gingerdead Man 3,” “The Bong Connection,” and “Hoodrats 2” — dropped by as much as half after 2011, when IMDb updated the Vietnamese-born stunner’s profile with her true date of birth of July 16, 1971.
She had claimed to be seven years younger.
“I definitely learned that age is a determining factor,” she said last night.
Hoang argued in her suit, which was filed in Seattle, that casting agents and producers would rule her out for work playing characters younger than her actual age. Before IMDb posted her true age, she testified, she had been hired for younger roles because she was able to pass for someone in their late 20s or 30s.
“When I saw the birth date on my profile, I freaked out,” Hoang testified earlier this week.
“It’s like having my age stapled to every job résumé.”
IMDb had uncovered that information by checking the credit card she used to open her account and confirming it with a third-party online database.
The case was being heard in Washington state because IMDb’s parent company, Amazon, is based in Seattle.