Trần Nữ Yên Khê (born 1973)[1] is a Vietnamese-born French actress married to the director Tran Anh Hung.[2] She has been in all his films thus far,^[when?] with the exception of Norwegian Wood. She has alleged, "French people only offer me stereotypical roles of Asian women that men fantasise about."[3]

Trần Nữ Yên Khê
Trần Nữ Yên Khê at the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival in 2015
Born	1973 Đà Nẵng, Vietnam
Occupation	actress
Years active	1987–present
Spouse(s)	Tran Anh Hung

Early life and education

Trần Nữ Yên Khê was born in Đà Nẵng, Vietnam.[4] 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]

Partial filmography

• 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

External links

• Tran Nu Yên-Khê at IMDb

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[ru] Чан Ны Йен Кхе