---
name: "Trần Nữ Yên Khê"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tran-nu-yen-khe"
fi1m_id: "tran-nu-yen-khe"
imdb_id: "nm0951295"
tmdb_id: 113388
wikidata_id: "Q460917"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "18 March 1968"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T02:40:36.727245+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Trần Nữ Yên Khê

## Identity

Trần Nữ Yên Khê

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tran-nu-yen-khe
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tran-nu-yen-khe
- **IMDb ID:** nm0951295
- **TMDB ID:** 113388
- **Wikidata ID:** Q460917
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tran_Nu_Yen_Khe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460917, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0951295/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/113388

Costume designer. Born 18 March 1968 in Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 18 March 1968, Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam
- **Active:** 1995–present
- **Also known as:** Tran Nu Yen Khe, تران نو ين خ, 陳女燕溪, トラン・ヌー・イエン・ケー, 쩐느옌케, Nu Yên-Khê Tran, Yên Khê Luguern
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 66 (1), 2020s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tran_Nu_Yen_Khe, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460917, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0951295/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/113388

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*The Taste of Things*](https://film.one/film/the-taste-of-things.md) (82)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *Cyclo* (1995), Fi1m 66, as Sister — [page](https://film.one/film/cyclo.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Taste of Things* (2023), Fi1m 82, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-taste-of-things.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Taste of Things* (2023), Costume Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-taste-of-things.md)
- *Lumina* (2020), Actor
- *Between shadow and soul* (2020), Actor
- *The Third Wife* (2019), as Hà · Art Department Assistant
- *Eternity* (2016), as Narrator (voice), Art Direction
- *Norwegian Wood* (2010), Production Design, Costume Designer
- *I Come with the Rain* (2009), as Lili
- *The Deserted Valley* (2002), Actor
- *The Vertical Ray of the Sun* (2000), as Lien
- *Cyclo* (1995), as Sister, Set Dresser — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/cyclo.md)
- *The Scent of Green Papaya* (1993), as Mui
- *Stone of Expectation* (1991), as La femme
- *The Married Woman of Nam Xuong* (1989), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Trần Nữ Yên Khê](https://film.one/media/person/12045/gallery-d28755386291.jpg) Trần Nữ Yên Khê — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Tran_Nu_Y%C3%AAn_Kh%C3%AA_from_%22The_Pot-au-Feu%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2023_%2853347208367%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Tran_Nu_Y%C3%AAn_Kh%C3%AA_from_%22The_Pot-au-Feu%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2023_%2853347208367%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Members of the International Competition Jury at Opening Ceremony of the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/12045/gallery-a14bfede30c2.jpg) Members of the International Competition Jury at Opening Ceremony of the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival (2015) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Members_of_the_International_Competition_Jury_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_28th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_%2822453160335%29.jpg/1280px-Members_of_the_International_Competition_Jury_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_28th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_%2822453160335%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Members of the International Competition Jury at Opening Ceremony of the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/12045/gallery-71e8e07577c4.jpg) Members of the International Competition Jury at Opening Ceremony of the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival (2015) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Members_of_the_International_Competition_Jury_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_28th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_%2822453160335%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![第28回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー トラン・アン・ユン (審査員) (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/12045/gallery-0e29bc7a47f1.jpg) 第28回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー トラン・アン・ユン (審査員) (2015) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Tran_Anh_Hung_%22International_Competition_Jury%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_28th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_%2822453104525%29.jpg/1280px-Tran_Anh_Hung_%22International_Competition_Jury%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_28th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_%2822453104525%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Trần Nữ Yên Khê](https://film.one/media/person/12045/gallery-ffa68d300e22.jpg) Trần Nữ Yên Khê — Image via TMDB
- ![Trần Nữ Yên Khê](https://film.one/media/person/12045/gallery-9723512a4835.jpg) Trần Nữ Yên Khê — Image via TMDB
- ![Trần Nữ Yên Khê](https://film.one/media/person/12045/gallery-dc153ee70e2d.jpg) Trần Nữ Yên Khê — Image via TMDB
- ![Members of the International Competition Jury at Opening Ceremony of the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/12045/gallery-ae0251e5c99d.jpg) Members of the International Competition Jury at Opening Ceremony of the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival (2015) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Tran_Nu_Yen_Khe_at_the_28th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_%2822453160335%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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