Trần Nữ Yên Khê

Acting

Trần Nữ Yên Khê

Born

1968-03-18 (58)

Place of birth

Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam

Known for

Acting

Credits

11 titles

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

Known for

The Scent of Green Papaya poster
7.0

1950s Saigon through the eyes of Mui, a Vietnamese servant girl. At 10 years-old, Mui leaves her village to work for an affluent, troubled family. As she comes of age, Mui finds work in the household of a pianist she has admired since childhood, and finds their relationship growing in complexity.

The Scent of Green Papaya

1993

Cyclo poster
6.9

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.

Cyclo

1995

The Vertical Ray of the Sun poster
6.6

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 Vertical Ray of the Sun

2000

I Come with the Rain poster
5.6

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.

I Come with the Rain

2009

Eternity poster
5.6

Valentine marries at the end of the 19th century, and love passes through her family from generation to generation.

Eternity

2016

The Third Wife poster
6.5

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.

The Third Wife

2019

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 3 titles