Biography
Trần Nữ Yên Khê is a Vietnamese-born French actress and visual artist. She trained in design and interior architecture at the École Camondo in Paris after studying briefly at the École du Louvre.
She is known for her frequent collaborations with her husband, director Trần Anh Hùng. She has acted in several of his films, including as Mui in The Scent of Green Papaya (1993), as the sister in Cyclo (1995), and as Lien in The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000). She has also worked as art director and costume designer on his projects, serving as costume designer on The Taste of Things (2023), for which she received a César Award nomination.
Her visual art practice includes painting and sculpture, with exhibitions in Paris and Ho Chi Minh City. In 2019 her work Borderline (2018) was acquired by the Musée Guimet, the first contemporary artwork from Southeast Asia to enter the French national collections.
