Phương Thanh

Acting

Phương Thanh

Born 1956-10-14 · Hà Tây

Phương Thanh (October 14, 1956 – February 13, 2009) was a Vietnamese film and television actress. Her real name is Phương Thị Thanh. She was born in Hà Tây. Phương thanh graduated from the second class of the Vietnam Film School, alongside many peers who later became famous actors of Vietnamese cinema such as Như Quỳnh, Diệu Thuần, and Thanh Quý. At the age of 20, Phương Thanh had her first role in the film "Đứa con nuôi" ("The Adopted") by director Nguyễn Khánh Dư. In 1978, Phương Thanh was chosen by director Trần Phương to play the main role, the robber Hiền "cá sấu," in the film "Tội lỗi cuối cùng" ("The Last Sin"). With this role, Phương Thanh won the Golden Lotus Award for Best Actress at the 5th Vietnam Film Festival, at the age of 23. For more than 30 years in her acting career, Phương Thanh has participated in over 50 feature films and nearly 100 TV series. In addition to the role of Hiền "cá sấu," other roles bearing her mark include "Thảo" in "Ai giận ai thương," Sùng Trinh in "Lưu lạc và trở về Sam Sao," Liễu in "Rừng lạnh," Kiều Trinh in "Bãi biển đời người," Yến in "Ông Hai cũ," Kiều Oanh in "Kỷ niệm đồi trăng," Mai in "Nửa chừng xuân"... Along with Như Quỳnh, Phương Thanh is one of the first two actresses from the North to impress the public in the South after the country's reunification in 1975, a name guaranteeing both critical and commercial success for her participation in any project. Since she got married, Phương Thanh was less involved in acting than before. Her last role was as a mother in the long-running TV series "Mùa cưới" ("Wedding Season") by director Đỗ Minh Tuấn. Phương Thanh passed away in 2009 following a stroke.

Acting credits

The Landfill King poster
9.0

Trong, a self-proclaimed king of a garbage dump, falls in love with the poor flower seller Thuy.

The Landfill King

2002

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

No artwork available
NR

Hai Cũ, a notorious outlaw robbing from the rich to give to the poor, writes to Hồ Chí Minh hoping to secure pardon for his subordinates and is then sent to work as a foreman for a military company. The company's officer turns out to be the student who has accidentally helped him to escape the police many years ago.

Portrait of a Foreman

1986

Who’s To Love, Who’s To Blame poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Who’s To Love, Who’s To Blame

1982

Cold Forest poster
NR

A scientist dies while researching the toxins dropped by American bombers onto Southern Vietnam. His three students goes on a trip through the forest of Truong Son mountains to bring his remains and research documents back to the North, but soon find themselves developing the same symptoms like their professor.

Cold Forest

1982

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

Swept Away poster
NR

Kiều Trinh, a French-Vietnamese journalist, returns to Vietnam with her husband and daughter to visit his relatives in a seaside town. Here, she meets her husband's uncle, an idiosyncratic neurosurgeon. As the days go by, Kiều Trinh discovers the new mysterious in-law is fascinated with her, and has ulterior plans for her family.

Swept Away

1983

Those We Have Met poster
10.0

The life of two soldiers after war, who try to continue their studies at the university.

Those We Have Met

1979

A Club with No Name poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Club with No Name

1977

A Love Will Come poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Love Will Come

1983

The Last Transgression poster
NR

An ex-gangster is determined to make a fresh start after getting out of prison, but soon finds herself too entrenched in a circle of violence to leave behind her ruthless past.

The Last Transgression

1980

Left Alone poster
NR

A Vietnamese woman from an ethnic minority is grieving over the death of her husband caused by the U.S. bomb. An American fighter pilot is shot down and desperately trying to survive under the U.S. bombing in the jungle where the woman lives.

Left Alone

1984

A Quiet School poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Quiet School

2004

The Foster Child poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Foster Child

1977

Memories at the Moon Hill poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Memories at the Moon Hill

1989

No artwork available
NR

A couple falls in love, but soon gets separated by the jealous patriarch of their Hmong village.

Return to Sam Sao

1985

Tempestuous Fate poster
NR

After a streak of betrayals in love, a scholar harbours a disdain for women and vows to stay away from their “venomous nature”. However, he soon grows increasingly obsessed with a prostitute he encountered one night, and falls deeply in love with her against the prejudices of his social class.

Tempestuous Fate

1989

The Last Hope poster
NR

In early-80s' Hanoi, a director of a state-owned factory welcomes his wife, a journalist, into a changed home after she spent some time away. As she struggles to make sense of their new wealth, he struggles to avoid embezzlement charges by a poor inspector—who turns out to be an old friend of hers.

The Last Hope

1981

Silent Soldiers poster
NR

Silent Soldiers tells the stories of soldiers on the battlefield. The film is set amongst the opening of the campaign against Buon Ma Thuot. The troops hid in the rubber forest waiting for orders. Old Lung and his daughter Ho May are the silent soldiers operating in the enemy's heart, as scouts for the army. News of Gia Lung's father and son helped the army capture Buon Ma Thuot.

Silent Soldiers

1984

The Population Planning Minister poster
NR

The president of a small village is appointed to be the minister for population planning, a controversial decision for the residents and his wife who is trying for another baby.

The Population Planning Minister

1984

Rạch Chiếc Bridge poster
NR

A Retelling of the Battle of Rạch Chiếc in April 1945

Rạch Chiếc Bridge

1986