Tran Nu Yen Khe

Trần Nữ Yên Khê (born 1968) is a Vietnamese-born French actress married to the director Tran Anh Hung.^[1] She has been in all his films thus far, with the exception of Norwegian Wood. She has alleged, "French people only offer me stereotypical roles of Asian women that men fantasise about."^[2]

Partial filmography

• The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
• Cyclo (1995)
• The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000)
• I Come with the Rain (2009)

References

1. Giovanni Fazio (7 June 2009). "Director Tran talks of moving from violence to Murakami’s famed ‘Norwegian Wood’". Japan Times.
2. Sylvie Blum-Reid, East-West encounters: Franco-Asian cinema and literature, pg 78

External links

• Tran Nu Yên-Khê at the Internet Movie Database