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Hồng Ánh

Hồng Ánh

Acting

Biography

Phạm Thị Hồng Ánh (born 28th August, 1977), commonly known by her stage name Hồng Ánh , is a Vietnamese actress, TV presenter and director. One of the most decorated Vietnamese actresses, she switched from a professional dancing career to acting in TV productions and rose to prominence in 1999 with a lead role in Cầu Thang Tối, and a supporting role in Đời Cát (Life in the Sands) by Nguyễn Thanh Vân which earned her Best Supporting Actress award at that year's Asia -Pacific Film Festival. Her later collaborations with Nguyễn Thanh Vân were also great critical successes, with Người đàn bà mộng du (2003) and Trái tim bé bỏng (2008) both bringing her two Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress at Vietnam Film Festival. In 2007, Hồng Ánh starred in the most iconic role of her career, Hạnh in Trăng nơi đáy giếng (The Moon at the Bottom of the Well); the film is considered a cult classic, while her performance is universally lauded by audience and critics alike with Hồng Ánh being awarded with the 2008 Golden Kite for Best Actress. Besides her work in critically-acclaimed arthouse films, Hồng Ánh also often stars in box office hits as well as theatre productions. She is the only female member of the Golden Kite jury, and has been a judge in several local film festivals. In 2011, she was also among the few artists to be nominated into the National Assembly.

Known For

Happy Memories
N/A

A competition about nostalgia, going through different types of arts and performances of Vietnam through the decades.

Happy Memories

2018
Sweet 20
6.7

Mrs. Dai, a 70-year old grandmother, suddenly finds that she has been transformed into her 20-year old self. Her old fashioned sense of style and manners cause some trouble, but falling in love could be the biggest problem of them all.

Sweet 20

2015
Scent of Coriander
6.0

No description available.

Scent of Coriander

2006
Blood Moon Rite 8
7.5

In an abandoned amusement park, a shoestring budget horror film is rolling. The crew features a "washed‐up yet unwavering" director, a leading couple whose onscreen romance has bled into real life, and a hot‐tempered makeup artist. The true nightmare begins when the director performs a "Blood Moon Ritual" meant to force genuine terror from his actors, no acting, only real fear and real tears.

Blood Moon Rite 8

2026
Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait
5.4

A Korean writer travels to Vietnam to do research for her story about a cursed portrait of a Vietnamese girl named Muoi.

Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait

2007
Kính Vạn Hoa
8.0

No description available.

Kính Vạn Hoa

2005
Mr. Hero
8.0

While scrambling to provide for his ill daughter, a taxi driver becomes embroiled in a major charity scam.

Mr. Hero

2026
Miss Beauty of the West Capital
N/A

Acclaimed for her outstanding beauty and intellect, Bạch Cúc is thought to have a lavish and glamourous life awaiting her in the future, but instead gets married off to the hedonistic, good-for-nothing heir of a wealthy landlord family. Refusing to tolerate the constant abuse wreak upon herself and other servants in estate, Bạch Cúc joins the Vietminh, and begins her double life operating an intricate intelligence network.

Miss Beauty of the West Capital

1996
Muoi: The Curse Returns
5.0

When a young art seller is surprisingly reconciled with her long-lost best friend, both are drawn into a series of frightening supernatural events at a mysterious mansion, where an infamous spirit trapped in a painting is lurking to unleash its century-old curse once again.

Muoi: The Curse Returns

2022
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N/A

Annual Lunar New Year program from Vietnam Television (VTV), with 12 prominent faces in fields of culture, sports, economy of the previous year, representing the 12 zodiacs.

12 Con Giáp

2012
Go-Go Sisters
8.0

Two parallel stories about young ambitious teenage girls and middle-aged women who have experienced life's sweet spiciness. A remake of the Korean movie 'Sunny' (2011).

Go-Go Sisters

2018
Blood Moon Party
7.2

Four childhood friends and their wives at an upscale dinner party. After a much-heated discussion about how smartphones influence their personal lives, the group proposes a late-night game: everyone is to place their mobiles on the table; whoever gets a text, notification or call must share it with the group. It is a recipe for disaster.

Blood Moon Party

2020
Your Face Sounds Familiar Vietnam
N/A

A competition where the contestants try their best to imitate and perform as other Vietnamese or international artists or fictional characters.

Your Face Sounds Familiar Vietnam

2013
The Ultimate of Love
N/A

Set against the riverine landscape of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, Ai Thương Ai Mến centers on Hai Mến—a woman who loses both parents and is left to shoulder her family’s burdens alone amid debt and relentless personal tragedies. Along her arduous journey, she encounters Khả (Ngọc Thuận), a carefree, pleasure-seeking young heir who unexpectedly falls deeply in love with her, giving rise to a romance that is at once tender and heartbreaking. In parallel, the pure and gentle love story of the young couple Chờ and Thương emerges as a rare ray of light, before all three narrative threads are ultimately drawn into trials that deeply move the audience.

The Ultimate of Love

2026
Because Your Mother Sentenced to Break Up
N/A

To avoid an arranged marriage, Trieu Phu fakes an illness, only to be cared for by his high school rival, Thanh Tam. As love blooms, they must defy his family's strict opposition and a mysterious spiritual omen that demands a split.

Because Your Mother Sentenced to Break Up

2026
Goodbye Mother
6.5

Văn comes back to Ho Chi Minh City from the US with his boyfriend Ian to visit his mother. Being the male heir of the family, everyone expects him to take a wife soon. And to top it all, his grandmother, who has Alzheimer, mistakes Ian for her grandson.

Goodbye Mother

2019
The Apple Tree Blossom
5.0

When the father of five grown children suddenly returns and dies. The strange funeral reveals the conflicts, instability, and tragedy of the Do family, including five children: Ngoc, Nga, Chau, Bau, and Du.

The Apple Tree Blossom

2021
The Somnambulist Woman
N/A

A young woman struggles to move on from the consuming grief of her experience as a combat medic in the Trường Sơn mountains during Vietnam War .

The Somnambulist Woman

2003
Mesdames Thanh Sắc
N/A

Mesdames Thanh Sắc follows the intertwined lives of the captivating beauty Cầm Thanh (Thanh Hằng) and Madame Sắc (Hồng Ánh), the wealthy owner of the prestigious Kim Đô nightclub, renowned for her fortune and vast collection of diamonds. Though she rises through Madame Sắc’s ranks to become one of Saigon’s most celebrated dancers in the 1960s, Cầm Thanh longs to break free from her patron’s control. As their ambitions and desires collide, the two women become locked in a tense power struggle that sets off a series of shocking and far-reaching events.

Mesdames Thanh Sắc

2026
The Building
9.0

On May 1, 1975 with Viet Cong troops march through Saigon celebrating their victory. Tham, caretaker of Victory Hotel, a relatively small establishment in downtown Saigon, nervously observes these celebrations. The owners have fled Saigon and the hotel is to be requisitioned by the new government. Tham wonders what his fate will be under the new regime. The next day he is told that that the hotel is to be transformed into a collective flat for the Viet Cong cadre and their families now entering the city. Tham is not hostile to this but is concerned about his place in the new set up. Will he still have a job? Will he be treated as an enemy?

The Building

1999