They kept calling me back." In the film, she plays a woman who ages from 13 to 38, who is raped and tortured in Vietnam and who becomes an abused housewife, mother, and businesswoman in the United States. My cousin heard about these auditions for a movie, and I just went with a friend to see what it was about. Le was one of 16,000 Vietnamese-Americans seen by casting scouts for Oliver Stone's Heaven & Earth and was finally chosen for the starring role (of Le Ly Hayslip). As a college student, she went to an open casting call in Northern California "because all my friends were doing it for fun" and ended up being cast in the leading role of Oliver Stone's third Vietnam film, Heaven & Earth (1993), set amid the turmoil of the Vietnam War.Īcting career Heaven and Earth Le originally had plans to graduate in June 1993 and pursue a career in science. She attended the University of California, Davis with a major in physiology. Įventually, Le moved to Oakland, California as a child, where her mother worked at a French-Vietnamese restaurant. Le's entire family – her parents and five children – were eventually reunited in Northern California. They eventually reunited with her father in Hong Kong. Her sister survived, and when they both reached port, they stayed in a Hong Kong refugee camp. I thought her eyes were going to fall out of their sockets", she says. "Tears rolled down her face, but there was no more crying. Le witnessed it and it scarred her for life. That night, a fishing boat captain grabbed her screaming 7-year-old sister and put a knife to her throat. Everyone thought we were going to die", she says. Sometime during the night, just as we arrived at a Vietnamese checkpoint, my sister woke up and started screaming for our momma. Īlong with approximately 60 other refugees, hid in a secret compartment behind a galley pantry on a fishing boat sailing to Hong Kong to reunite with their father. We were told by my mom that we had to go look for Dad, and that he had gone to someplace called 'America', which we interpreted was the city across the river, since it had lights. When Le was nine years old, she fled Vietnam with her mother and sister. In 1978, her father became a refugee who defected from Vietnam to Hong Kong.
Le was born on February 18, 1971, in Da Nang, South Vietnam. She is best known for her portrayal of Le Ly in the film Heaven & Earth (1993). Hiep Thi Le ( Vietnamese: Lê Thị Hiệp Febru– December 19, 2017) was an American actress and restaurateur.
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