Trần Nữ Yên Khê
Acting
Biography
Tran Nu Yen Khe (born 1968) is a Vietnamese actress married to director Tran Anh Hung. She has been in all his films thus far, with the exception of Norwegian Wood. She has alleged that, "French people only offer me stereotypical roles of Asian women men fantasize about."
Born: March 12, 1968
Place of Birth: Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam
Known For
Between Shadow and Soul
Mây, a fourteen year-old girl is being married as the third wife to a rich landowner in the late 19th century Northern Vietnam. A black & white version of The Third Wife with no dialogue and new music.
The Scent of Green Papaya
A young Vietnamese peasant girl named Mùi becomes the servant of a house in pre-unification Saigon.
Cyclo
Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.
The Vertical Ray of the Sun
Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung's films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, insects and water and the way the lighting enhances the subtle use of color. They all combine to gem-like effect here.
The Third Wife
Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Her new home seems idyllic, her husband favours her, and she quickly becomes pregnant with what she is certain will be the desired male progeny. But trouble is quietly brewing: she witnesses a forbidden tryst that will spark a chain reaction of misfortunes — and stir in May urges that until now had been dormant.
Stone of Expectation
Is the tale of a man and a woman, both boat people, who meet in a transit refugee camp in Indonesia. Years later, they live in Paris, married with a child. One day, the husband discovers that his wife happens to be his younger sister.
Eternity
Valentine marries at the end of the 19th century, and love passes through her family from generation to generation.
I Come with the Rain
Kline, a former Los Angeles police officer turned private detective, is hired by a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss to investigate in Asia the disappearance of his only son, Shitao, whom he has not seen in person since the boy was ten. Now in his 30s, Shitao has gone missing in the Philippines where he had been helping in an orphanage.
The Married Woman of Nam Xuong
The cinematic tale recounts the story of a woman whose husband has left for war. When night comes, she pretends to her child that the shadow projected on a sheet is his father. When the father returns, two years later, the child rejects him, telling him that his father only returns at night.
The Deserted Valley
Three teachers run together an elementary school for local Hmong children in a remote mountain village. One day, an incident turns their life upside down, revealing the secrets and feelings they have been hiding for a long time.
Filmography
as Hà
as Narrator (voice)
as Lili
as Lien
as Sister
as La femme