Tran Nu Yen Khe
French-Vietnamese actress
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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.
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![cropped headshot of Trần Nữ Yên Khê at Tokyo International Film Festival 2023](#/media/File:Tran_Nu_Yên_Khê_from_"The_Pot-au-Feu"_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2023_(53347208367)_(cropped).jpg) Trần Nữ Yên Khê in 2023 | |
| Born | March 18, 1968 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Spouse | Tran Anh Hung |
Early life and education
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 six 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
- 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)