Tran Nu Yen Khe - Wikipedia

French-Vietnamese actress

Trần Nữ Yên Khê
Trần Nữ Yên Khê in 2023
Born	(1968-03-18) March 18, 1968 (age 57)Hanoi, North Vietnam
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1987–present
Spouse	Tran Anh Hung

Trần Nữ Yên Khê (born March 18, 1968)[1] is a Vietnamese-born French actress married to the director Tran Anh Hung.[2] She has appeared in all his films, with the exception of Norwegian Wood, Eternity and The Taste of Things.

Early life and education

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Trần Nữ Yên Khê was born on March 18, 1968 in Hanoi, North Vietnam.[3] Her mother had been a professor of literature and Chinese at Huế University.[1]

Trần left Vietnam in 1974 at the age of one with her mother and sisters before the end of the Vietnam War.[1] She grew up in Paris. After high school, she attended École du Louvre for one year, before enrolling at École Camondo, where she studied design and interior architecture.[1]

Although Trần is from the central region of Vietnam, she speaks Vietnamese with a northern accent, which she has said discontented her mother.[1]

She has alleged, "French people only offer me stereotypical roles of Asian women that men fantasise about".[4]

Partial filmography

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• The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
• Cyclo (1995)
• The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000)
• I Come with the Rain (2009)
• The Third Wife (2018)

References

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1. ^ a b c d e Berthon, Magali An (October 1, 2014). "Between two-cultures: Euro-Asian creative personalities (part I)". ASEF culture360. Archived from the original on March 23, 2023. Retrieved August 15, 2025.
2. ^ Giovanni Fazio (7 June 2009). "Director Tran talks of moving from violence to Murakami's famed 'Norwegian Wood'". Japan Times.
3. ^ "Trần Nữ Yên Khê". Oh Les Beaux Jours !. Archived from the original on 2022-02-21. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
4. ^ Sylvie Blum-Reid, East-West encounters: Franco-Asian cinema and literature Archived 2023-11-20 at the Wayback Machine, pg 78

External links

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• Tran Nu Yên-Khê at IMDb

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