Hồng Ánh

Acting

Hồng Ánh

Born 1977-08-28 · Tra Vinh, Vietnam

Phạm Thị Hồng Ánh (born 28th August, 1977), commonly known by her stage name Hồng Ánh , is a Vietnamese actress, TV presenter and director. One of the most decorated Vietnamese actresses, she switched from a professional dancing career to acting in TV productions and rose to prominence in 1999 with a lead role in Cầu Thang Tối, and a supporting role in Đời Cát (Life in the Sands) by Nguyễn Thanh Vân which earned her Best Supporting Actress award at that year's Asia -Pacific Film Festival. Her later collaborations with Nguyễn Thanh Vân were also great critical successes, with Người đàn bà mộng du (2003) and Trái tim bé bỏng (2008) both bringing her two Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress at Vietnam Film Festival. In 2007, Hồng Ánh starred in the most iconic role of her career, Hạnh in Trăng nơi đáy giếng (The Moon at the Bottom of the Well); the film is considered a cult classic, while her performance is universally lauded by audience and critics alike with Hồng Ánh being awarded with the 2008 Golden Kite for Best Actress. Besides her work in critically-acclaimed arthouse films, Hồng Ánh also often stars in box office hits as well as theatre productions. She is the only female member of the Golden Kite jury, and has been a judge in several local film festivals. In 2011, she was also among the few artists to be nominated into the National Assembly.

Acting credits

Mr. Hero poster
7.5

While scrambling to provide for his ill daughter, a taxi driver becomes embroiled in a major charity scam.

Mr. Hero

2026

Blood Moon Rite 8 poster
7.5

In an abandoned amusement park, a shoestring budget horror film is rolling. The crew features a "washed‐up yet unwavering" director, a leading couple whose onscreen romance has bled into real life, and a hot‐tempered makeup artist. The true nightmare begins when the director performs a "Blood Moon Ritual" meant to force genuine terror from his actors, no acting, only real fear and real tears.

Blood Moon Rite 8

2026

The Ultimate of Love poster
NR

Set against the riverine landscape of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, Ai Thương Ai Mến centers on Hai Mến—a woman who loses both parents and is left to shoulder her family’s burdens alone amid debt and relentless personal tragedies. Along her arduous journey, she encounters Khả (Ngọc Thuận), a carefree, pleasure-seeking young heir who unexpectedly falls deeply in love with her, giving rise to a romance that is at once tender and heartbreaking. In parallel, the pure and gentle love story of the young couple Chờ and Thương emerges as a rare ray of light, before all three narrative threads are ultimately drawn into trials that deeply move the audience.

The Ultimate of Love

2026

Zero Meets Hero poster
NR

War veteran Mr Thoi and his Gen Z grandson Tri Binh embark on a comedic journey to reunite with old war comrades, weaving together Vietnamese spiritual beliefs and generational bonds.

Zero Meets Hero

2026

The Somnambulist Woman poster
NR

A young woman struggles to move on from the consuming grief of her experience as a combat medic in the Trường Sơn mountains during Vietnam War .

The Somnambulist Woman

2003

Muoi: The Curse Returns poster
5.0

When a young art seller is surprisingly reconciled with her long-lost best friend, both are drawn into a series of frightening supernatural events at a mysterious mansion, where an infamous spirit trapped in a painting is lurking to unleash its century-old curse once again.

Muoi: The Curse Returns

2022

Let Me Tell You, Dad poster
NR

The story of a circus performer and his son on the journey to find lost connection.

Let Me Tell You, Dad

2026

Goodbye Mother poster
6.7

Văn comes back to Ho Chi Minh City from the US with his boyfriend Ian to visit his mother. Being the male heir of the family, everyone expects him to take a wife soon. And to top it all, his grandmother, who has Alzheimer, mistakes Ian for her grandson.

Goodbye Mother

2019

Madame in Saigon poster
NR

Mesdames Thanh Sắc follows the intertwined lives of the captivating beauty Cầm Thanh (Thanh Hằng) and Madame Sắc (Hồng Ánh), the wealthy owner of the prestigious Kim Đô nightclub, renowned for her fortune and vast collection of diamonds. Though she rises through Madame Sắc’s ranks to become one of Saigon’s most celebrated dancers in the 1960s, Cầm Thanh longs to break free from her patron’s control. As their ambitions and desires collide, the two women become locked in a tense power struggle that sets off a series of shocking and far-reaching events.

Madame in Saigon

2026

Ngày Xửa Ngày Xưa 36: Hậu duệ Thần Mặt trời poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ngày Xửa Ngày Xưa 36: Hậu duệ Thần Mặt trời

2026

Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait poster
5.4

A Korean writer travels to Vietnam to do research for her story about a cursed portrait of a Vietnamese girl named Muoi.

Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait

2007

The Moon at the Bottom of the Well poster
6.7

Hanh is a dutiful wife and school teacher in a rural Vietnamese village who appears to enjoy a happy marriage. Childless, she insists her husband Phoung, the local school headmaster, take a second wife to bear him a baby. But in the small village, their secret is impossible to keep for long.

The Moon at the Bottom of the Well

2008

Close The Eye To See poster
NR

Two young university students, Nam and Minh, live together in a small rented apartment. They are lovers. Minh suddenly disappears, leaving Nam soullessly alone in the apartment. Ngọc is their neighbour and the friend who stays by Nam's side to care for and accompany him while he is gradually losing his mind. Everything becomes apparent, and the explanation for Nam's nightmares is revealed.

Close The Eye To See

2025

Precious Little Hearts poster
NR

In hopes of getting her family out of poverty, 17-year-old Mai follows a neighbour's offer and leaves her small fishing village in Central Vietnam to work as a seamstress in Saigon, not knowing her neighbour had sold her into prostitution, and a grisly fate awaits her upon arrival.

Precious Little Hearts

2007

Pearls of the Far East poster
NR

Seven stories about Vietnamese women spanning different generations, exploring their inner lives and forbidden loves.

Pearls of the Far East

2012

Spoiled: Mom's Birthday Party poster
NR

Threatened by gangsters, a young man stages a fake funeral for his own mother to claim her insurance money. But his insane, unfilial plan keeps getting sabotaged — by strangers, by friends, and especially because the day he plans to put his mother in the coffin happens to be her 60th birthday.

Spoiled: Mom's Birthday Party

2025

That Summer, Will Be Back poster
NR

That summer, we had nothing but youth, dreams, and…each other. But it was also that very summer—a summer carrying the things we hadn't yet completed… Are you ready to meet the version of yourself from those beautiful summer days of youth and continue writing the unfinished story?

That Summer, Will Be Back

2024

Sweet 20 poster
6.7

Mrs. Dai, a 70-year old grandmother, suddenly finds that she has been transformed into her 20-year old self. Her old fashioned sense of style and manners cause some trouble, but falling in love could be the biggest problem of them all.

Sweet 20

2015

The Deserted Valley poster
5.5

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.

The Deserted Valley

2002

No artwork available
NR

A man reminisces about his past labouring on the rivers of Southern Vietnam

Chuyện ngã bảy

1996

Hải Nguyệt poster
NR

A young girl decides to remain in her hometown and continues the fish sauce distillery of her family who is planning to leave Vietnam.

Hải Nguyệt

1998

Song of the South poster
4.8

As French colonial rule reaches a violent end in Vietnam, a 12 year old boy makes a treacherous journey in search of his estranged father.

Song of the South

2023

Go-Go Sisters poster
8.0

Two parallel stories about young ambitious teenage girls and middle-aged women who have experienced life's sweet spiciness. A remake of the Korean movie 'Sunny' (2011).

Go-Go Sisters

2018

Lives in the Sands poster
8.0

For twenty years, Canh has lived in North Vietnam, unable to return to his home in the south where his wife is waiting for him. She is happy to reunite with her husband until she learns that he has married a young woman in the north and has a child by her. The love triangle becomes more complicated.

Lives in the Sands

1999

Behind the camera