Trần Nữ Yên Khê
Birthday: 1968-03-12 Place of Birth: Vietnam
Synopsis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Trần Nữ Yên Khê (born 1968) is a Vietnamese actress married to director Tran Anh Hung. She has been in all his films thus far, with the exception of Norwegian Wood. She has alleged that, "French people only offer me stereotypical roles of Asian women men fantasize about." Description above from the Wikipedia article Trần Nữ Yên Khê licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
The Third Wife
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.