Như Quỳnh

Acting

Như Quỳnh

Born 1954-01-01 · Hanoi, Vietnam

Nguyễn Như Quỳnh (born in 1954, known as Như Quỳnh) is a Vietnamese actress and People's Artist (NSND). She is also known as an amateur poet. She graduated in 1971 from the Vietnam Theatre School, today the University of Theatre and Film, Hanoi (SKDA). Two years later, she acted as one of the two female leads in her first film, Bài ca ra trận ("The Song of Battle", d. Trần Đắc, 1973). Then with her role as Nết in Đến hẹn lại lên ("We'll Be Seeing Us Again", d. Trần Vũ, 1974), Như Quỳnh won the Best Actress Award at the 3rd Vietnam Film Festival in 1975. Her roles in a series of French co-productions, Indochine (1992), Cyclo (1995) and Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000) introduced her to a foreign audience.

Acting credits

First Love poster
NR

Student Ba Duy sinks deep into heartbreak and a nihilistic street life when his sweetheart, Diem Huong, suddenly leaves him to marry an American diplomat.

First Love

1977

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

Long Legged Girls poster
3.0

In an attempt to break into the Saigon fashion scene, an emerging model becomes the mistress of a famous photographer.

Long Legged Girls

2004

The Chinese Botanist's Daughters poster
6.4

At the house of a famous Chinese botanist teacher his daughter and a female intern fall in love with each other - a forbidden love that must be kept secret.

The Chinese Botanist's Daughters

2006

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

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

Nesting Season in Hanoi poster
NR

Hanoi of 1978, milkwood pine flowers in autumn, and the anxiety of idealistic youths navigating postwar life. A young couple struggle to be together as individual happiness gets in the way.

Nesting Season in Hanoi

1978

Blood Curse poster
6.0

The film tells the scary, haunting adventures of three medical university students who accidentally discover a species of wormwood that is made with human blood in an ancient wooden box containing a piece of withered tree and amulet. He placed it deep in a messy bookshelf in Professor Hoan Sinh's house. That is wormwood blood, a secret medicine of the Sang La people.

Blood Curse

2012

Noble poster
6.4

Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.

Noble

2014

The Girl from the Mountain Village poster
NR

A young Khmer woman becomes the first in her village to pass the university entrance test. With her husband’s support, she moves to the city and studies film to pursue her lifelong dream of being a director.

The Girl from the Mountain Village

2007

Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret of the First Emperor poster
NR

Set in the Dinh Dynasty of the 10th century, the period film follows seven loyal warriors who must race against time to transport 99 coffins to different parts of the kingdom as a decoy to the enemy and keep the final resting place of the first emperor a secret.

Spirit Guardians: The Last Secret of the First Emperor

2026

Time in the Jungle poster
NR

Defectors from Hitler's army join the French Foreign Legion and end up in Vietnam in the late '40s.

Time in the Jungle

1988

March to the Front poster
NR

March to the Front depicts the Resistance War Against America (Vietnam War) through the lens of romance.

March to the Front

1973

Between shadow and soul poster
8.8

Mây, a fourteen year-old girl is being married as the third wife to a rich landowner in the late 19th century Northern Vietnam. A black & white reworking of 'The Third Wife' with no dialogue and a newly composed score.

Between shadow and soul

2020

No artwork available
NR

Melodrama set in South Vietnam in the 1970s. Before liberation, Kha and Hien were in love but prevented from marrying by rigid class distinctions. After the war, Kha returns home with the rank of lieutenant colonel and finds Hien has lost her fortune and her status. Kha decides to protect Hien to repay his ‘debt’ of love to her.

Debt of love

1987

Rise poster
6.4

A rags to riches story of unusual circumstance. 'Huong Ga - Rise' is the story of Dieu. Chronicling the highs and lows of Vietnam's most notorious female gangsters| this is a woman's journey as she breaks the glass ceiling in a man's word| albeit| a much darker and dangerous existence. Shaded by the influence and lessons of the men in her life: Nhan her childhood sweetheart| her great unrequited love; Hung fifty shades of empty but a great physical attraction; Tung the man of her dreams| husband| lover and friend; and Tan - the gentle man who promises a simpler life. Each of the men in her life contribute to Dieu's great success (and failures) as she climbs to the top of Vietnam's gangster underworld.

Rise

2014

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

No artwork available
NR

Struggling to secure a job and make ends meet after her graduation, a young woman slowly gives way to advances made towards her from a well-off company director.

Tears in the New Era

1996

White Butterfly poster
NR

Upon learning of her mother's passing, May returns to Vietnam after 20 years, determined to learn about her parents' separation in relation to the Mother Goddess Worship. Despite family opposition and cultural barriers, May remains committed to uncovering the truth.

White Butterfly

2024

The Holy Day poster
NR

A story about a Catholic Village by the sea in Northern Vietnam in the early 60's, where people lacked faith in the new Communist regime.

The Holy Day

1976

A Love Will Come poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Love Will Come

1983

Quiet Night poster
NR

Quiet Night is an old Vietnamese film produced in 1984 by director Tran Phuong with the participation of actors People's Artist Nhu Quynh, Bui Bai Binh, and Tran Phuong

Quiet Night

1984

The Story of Pao poster
7.5

Set in a breath-taking primitive landscape in the mountainous provinces of Vietnam, the film tells the story of a Hmong tribe girl named Pao. She was raised by her stepmother, for her real mother left her when she was little. One day, her stepmother dies in an accident, and she begins to track down her birth mother. But her journey turns out to disclose an unsealed sentimental drama of the family in the past.

The Story of Pao

2006

We Will Meet Again poster
7.0

On a festive spring day in 1940, two young quan họ singers fall in love. But their relationship is soon ruthlessly disrupted by class injustices, imposed upon both—and many other Vietnamese—by the ongoing French colonial rule and the looming Japanese occupation.

We Will Meet Again

1974