Linh Dan Pham
Linh Dan Pham ( Vietnamese: Phạm Linh Djan, born in 1974 in Saigon ) is a French-Vietnamese actress.
Life
Linh Dan Pham was born in 1974 in Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City. At the age of one year, she left with her parents to their home country and immigrated to France. Your youth spent in the banlieues of Paris, including Bagneux, Clichy, Issy -les- Moulineaux and Sceaux. In 1992, Dan Pham celebrated her acting debut under the direction Régis Wargnier. In the war drama Indochine which takes place against the background of the Indochina War, the adopted daughter of the plantation owner Eliane acted the Vietnamese woman as young Camille (played by Catherine Deneuve ), who turned toward the luxurious life back and with the lover of her mother, a French soldier (played by Vincent Perez ), by burning. The forty million DM (about 20.45 million euros ) expensive large-scale production was highly praised by critics and received in 1993 ( official census 1992 ) won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of the year. Linh Dan Pham was nominated for her performance as Best Newcomer for the César, France's most important film award, but the French Romane Bohringer was beaten ( Wild Nights ).
After the great success of Linh Dan Pham Indochine was in 1994 on the side of Nikolai Kinski and F. Murray Abraham can be seen in the title role of Monica Teubner Drama Jamila before she gave in to family and cultural pressure and put her acting ambitions on hold. It was not until seven years later Dan Pham took her acting career back on and began in New York at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Institute to study and play theater. Also role offers in France did not fail and they received 2005 a supporting role as gifted and pedantic pianist Miao -Lin in Jacques Audiard's drama The Beat That My Heart, in which she the tingelnden between a career in music and the crime Tom (played by Romain Duris ) under their wing takes. The film, a remake of James Toback's Fingers - Affectionate and brutally from 1978, was granted a huge success with critics and audiences. The Beat That My Heart won the British Academy Film Award for best non - English-language production of the year and was awarded the César Award for 2006 in eight out of ten categories, including Best Picture and Best Director. Among the winners was also Linh Dan Pham, who was honored with the award for Best Young Actress, thirteen years after her first nomination for Indochine. She gave the trophy won her parents, who had opposed a film career of the daughter.
Also in 2005, followed by a supporting role in Frédéric Balekdjians debut film Les mauvais joueurs in which Linh Dan Pham beautiful Lu Ann, who works in a Chinese fast food restaurant in Paris and of the petty criminals Vahé (played by Pascal Elbé ) is sought. In preparation for the film, which was awarded at the 2005 Berlinale with the Manfred Salzgeber Prize for the most innovative European production from the Panorama section, Linh Dan Pham did an internship in a Chinese fast food restaurant in Paris, Rue Saint- Denis. After guest appearances on television Edouard Molinaros miniseries Les Hommes de coeur and an episode of the German TV series Zoo Doctor (both 2006), she worked again in 2007 together with director Régis Wargnier. In the thriller Pars vite et reviens tard, the eponymous film adaptation of Fred Vargas ' award-winning crime novel Flee far and fast, include Jose Garcia, Marie Gillain, Lucas Belvaux and Serrault her film partner. In the same year followed Marc Caro's Dante 01 science fiction film in which she held the part of Elisa alongside Lambert Wilson and Dominique Pinon. In 2009, she was next to such well-known actresses like Jeanne Balibar, Julie Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling and Karin Viard the ensemble cast of Maïwenn Le Besco's tragicomedy Le bal des actrices.