Như Quỳnh
Birthday: 1954-01-01
Place of Birth: Hanoi, Vietnam
Biography: 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.
Movies
The Chinese Botanist's Daughters
At the house of a famous Chinese botanist teacher his daughter and a female intern fall in love with...
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The Vertical Ray of the Sun
Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about ...
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Cyclo
Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Min...
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Money, Money!
Returning to Vietnam after many years of studying abroad, a doctorate in atomic force Thai Duong ent...
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Trading Happiness
The Vietnamese Nghi has a bad feeling as she sees the foreign Chinese groom for the first time on th...
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Touch Happiness
The story is a miniature society with views on love and life values. Let the characters exclaim that...
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Quiet Night
Quiet Night is an old Vietnamese film produced in 1984 by director Tran Phuong with the participatio...
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White Butterfly
Upon learning of her mother's passing, May returns to Vietnam after 20 years, determined to learn ab...
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Pao's Story
Set in a breath-taking primitive landscape in the mountainous provinces of Vietnam, the film tells t...
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The White Silk Dress
A family living in poverty faces financial difficulties while striving to educate their daughters. T...
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Dumb Luck
The sexually repressed widow Doan comes to play tennis in the court where sly, lewd orphan Xuan (nic...
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First Love
Student Ba Duy sinks deep into heartbreak and a nihilistic street life when his sweetheart, Diem Huo...
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We Will Meet Again
On a festive spring day in 1940, two young quan họ singers fall in love. But their relationship is s...
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Between Shadow and Soul
Mây, a fourteen year-old girl is being married as the third wife to a rich landowner in the late 19t...
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Long Legged Girls
Thuy is a country girl. She met Hoang, who is photographer for a fashion company. Thuy entered the f...
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Blood Curse
The film tells the scary, haunting adventures of three medical university students who accidentally ...
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Adrift
Soon after her wedding, newlywed Duyen's excitement begins to fade as she realizes her young husband...
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Saigon Eclipse
Saigon Eclipse is inspired by the "Story of Kieu", the classic Vietnamese epic poem written by Nguye...
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Rise
A rags to riches story of unusual circumstance. 'Huong Ga - Rise' is the story of Dieu. Chronicling ...
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Noble
Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny...
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Pearls of the Far East
Seven stories about Vietnamese women spanning different generations, exploring their inner lives and...
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The Third Wife
Though only 14 years old, May is selected to be the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Her new home ...
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The Holy Day
A story about a Catholic Village by the sea in Northern Vietnam in the early 60's, where people lack...
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Wharf of Widows
Based on a well-known novel of the same title by author Duong Huong, “Wharf of Widows” reflects stor...
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Nesting Season in Hanoi
Hanoi of 1978, milkwood pine flowers in autumn, and the anxiety of idealistic youths navigating post...
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Debt of love
Melodrama set in South Vietnam in the 1970s. Before liberation, Kha and Hien were in love but preven...
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Time in the Jungle
Defectors from Hitler's army join the French Foreign Legion and end up in Vietnam in the late '40s....
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March to the Front
March to the Front depicts the Resistance War Against America (Vietnam War) through the lens of roma...
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The Last Hope
In early-80s' Hanoi, a director of a state-owned factory welcomes his wife, a journalist, into a cha...
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Runaway
After Thi's mother died, her father was unable to raise her, so she lived with her aunt-in-law and g...
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Eleven Men
Eleven Men combines footage from a range of Vietnamese classic feature films produced by the state-o...
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Bride of Silence
A gorgeous young woman endures the wrath of her strict family and fellow villagers when she becomes ...
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Lady of the Flowers
In early 20th century, a Vietnamese aristocratic socialite falls in love with a poor scholar though ...
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Broken Space
While still heartbroken after her new boyfriend leaves to marry another woman, Đan Linh gets into a ...
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The Girl from the Mountain Village
A young Khmer woman becomes the first in her village to pass the university entrance test. With her ...
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The Population Planning Minister
The president of a small village is appointed to be the minister for population planning, a controve...
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Hộ Linh Tráng Sĩ: Bí ẩn mộ vua Đinh
Based on the folklore about the 7 warriors and the mystery of the tomb of Emperor Dinh....
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