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Như Quỳnh
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.
As actor
Hộ Linh Tráng Sĩ: Bí ẩn mộ Vua Đinh
White Butterfly
Touch Happiness
Trading Happiness
Between shadow and soul
The Third Wife
Eleven Men
Rise
Noble
Blood Curse
Pearls of the Far East
Vũ Điệu Đam Mê
Adrift
The White Silk Dress
Saigon Eclipse
The Girl from the Mountain Village
The Chinese Botanist's Daughters
The Story of Pao
Bride of Silence
Long Legged Girls
Wharf of Widows
The Vertical Ray of the Sun
Broken Space
Runaway
Tears in the New Era
Cyclo
Dumb Luck
Money, Money!
Lady of the Flowers
Time in the Jungle