Hồng Ánh
Birthday: Born in 1977-08-28 in Tra Vinh, Vietnam
Deathday: Alive
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.
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Mùi Ngò Gai
Character: Vy
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Kính Vạn Hoa
Character: Cô Trinh
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Người đẹp Tây Đô
Character: Bạch Vân
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Ký Ức Vui Vẻ
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A show of nostalgia, going through different types of arts and performances of Vietnam through the decades....
Gương Mặt Thân Quen
Character: Self - Guest Judge
A competition where the contestants try their best to imitate and perform as other Vietnamese or international artists or fictional characters....
Cây Táo Nở Hoa
Character: Trần Thị Hạnh
When the father of five grown children suddenly returns and dies. The strange funeral reveals the conflicts, instability, and tragedy of the Do family, including five children: Ngoc, Nga, Chau, Bau, and Du....
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Song of the South
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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....
The Somnambulist Woman
Character: Quỳ
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 ....
Muoi: The Curse Returns
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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....
That Summer, Will Be Back
Character: Thảo Nguyên (Già)
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?...
Sweet 20
Character: bà Vy
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....
Go-Go Sisters
Character: Hiểu Phương (adult)
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)....
Lives in the Sands
Character: Tâm
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....
Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait
Character: Hong
A Korean writer travels to Vietnam to do research for her story about a cursed portrait of a Vietnamese girl named Muoi....
Goodbye Mother
Character: Auntie Ut
Văn comes back to Saigon 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....
Blood Moon Party
Character: Nguyệt Ánh
Four childhood friends and their wives at an upscale dinner party. After a much-heated discussion about how smartphones influence their personal lives, the group proposes a late-night game: everyone is to place their mobiles on the table; whoever gets a text, notification or call must share it with the group. It is a recipe for disaster....
The Mother's Soul
Character: Lan
Thu lives in a village near the river with Lan, her single mother working as a fruit seller. Thu befriends a boy in the village, Đăng, who lost his mother at a young age and is thus mainly raised by his grandparents. As the two children bond, they find in each other the parental figures they have been longing for....
Close The Eye To See
Character: Mẹ Minh
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....
The Moon at the Bottom of the Well
Character: Hạnh
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 Building
Character: Minh Ly
On May 1, 1975 with Viet Cong troops march through Saigon celebrating their victory. Tham, caretaker of Victory Hotel, a relatively small establishment in downtown Saigon, nervously observes these celebrations. The owners have fled Saigon and the hotel is to be requisitioned by the new government. Tham wonders what his fate will be under the new regime. The next day he is told that that the hotel is to be transformed into a collective flat for the Viet Cong cadre and their families now entering ...
Spoiled: Mom's Birthday Party
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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....
Precious Little Hearts
Character: Ms. Cháy
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....
The Deserted Valley
Character: Giao
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 Ultimate of Love
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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 cou...
Mrs. Hương
Character: Tươi
An agricultural engineer is assigned to test his new rice plant at a rural town where he meets Hương, a beautiful yet gloomy woman wedded to the town's wealthiest man....
Hải Nguyệt
Character: Hải Nguyệt
A young girl decides to remain in her hometown and continues the fish sauce distillery of her family who is planning to leave Vietnam....