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Trần Nữ Yên Khê

Acting Born Mar 18, 1968 Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam 11 credits

Biography

Tran Nu Yen Khe (born 12 March 1968) is a French-Vietnamese actress, sculptor and painter. Best known for her collaborations with her director husband Tran Anh Hung, she is a leading lady in his films, notably Scent of the Green Papaya, Cyclo and Vertical Ray of the Sun, and had briefly served as his art director and costume designer. She also owns a visual art practice with exhibitions in Paris and Ho Chi Minh City; in 2019, her work Borderline (2018) was acquired by Musée Guimet, making history as the first contemporary artwork from Southeast Asia to be included in the French National Collections

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Known for

Film

The Scent of Green Papaya

as Mui

The Magnificent Century

as Lien

Full filmography

  • The Scent of Green Papaya (1993) as Mui
  • Cyclo (1995) as Sister
  • The Third Wife (2019) as Hà
  • I Come with the Rain (2009) as Lili
  • Eternity (2016) as Narrator (voice)
  • The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000) as Lien
  • Between shadow and soul (2020)
  • The Deserted Valley (2002)
  • The Married Woman of Nam Xuong (1989)
  • Lumina (2020)
  • Stone of Expectation (1991) as La femme