2004Nominee
Best Performance
Long Legged Girls
Như Quỳnh
Actor
Hanoi, Vietnam
January 1, 1954
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1995Nominee
Best Performance
Cyclo
2019Nominee
Best Performance
The Third Wife
Career Highlights
2006Highlight
Best Director
The Chinese Botanist's Daughters
1977Highlight
Best Performance
First Love
Video
Cyclo
The Third Wife
The Vertical Ray of the Sun