Linh Dan Pham
Linh Dan Pham at the Festival de Cannes 2006
Born	1973 Saigon, South Vietnam
Awards César Awards Most Promising Actress 2005 De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté

Linh Dan Pham is a French actress of Vietnamese descent. She was born in Saigon, South Vietnam in 1973 but moved with her family to France a year later.

She is known most for her 1992 role as a Vietnamese princess in the Oscar-winning French epic Indochine, starring alongside Catherine Deneuve. Pham received a César (French equivalent of the Oscars) nomination for most promising actress for her role.

Despite appearing in a few other productions afterwards, Pham eventually decided to take a decade off from acting, focusing instead on her studies. She studied commerce in University and worked as a senior marketing manager after graduation.

In 2005, Pham made a big comeback with her role in the French film The Beat That My Heart Skipped, for which she was nominated yet again for the most promising actress award (and won).

In that same year Pham appeared on a popular Vietnamese diaspora show (Trung Tam Asia) where she was honored for her work.

Trivia

• For her role in The Beat That My Heart Skipped she played a Chinese character, yet her lines are spoken in Vietnamese.
• She credits the discovery of her career to her dad, who had noticed a clipping calling for a film to be shot on location in Vietnam (Indochine) while the two were out eating Pho in Paris.
• She has worked in New York, Singapore and Vietnam and now resides in London.
• She has also taken an acting course at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York.
• Despite being born in Saigon, she speaks Vietnamese with a northern accent (her parents are likelly northerners who moved to the south).

External links

• Linh Dan Pham at the Internet Movie Database