Minh Hằng

Minh Hằng
Minh Hằng in her birthplace, Ho Chi Minh City, in 2009.
Background information
Birth name	Lê Ngọc Minh Hằng
Born	(1987-06-22) June 22, 1987 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Genres	Pop
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, actress, dancer
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	2003–present
Labels	Contest

Lê Ngọc Minh Hằng (born 22 June 1987 in Ho Chi Minh City) better known as Minh Hằng, is a Vietnamese singer and actress.^[1]

Lê Ngọc Minh Hằng stepped into her career at the age of 16 as a group singer, and has been cast in several dramas but failed to make much of a mark.^[2] In 2007, after the success of the film Dream Call, Minh Hang's name began to attract a lot of attention and interest. With successive successes in music and film projects, she was considered one of the most promising faces of Vietnamese entertainment at the time.^[3]

In 2009 and 2011, Lê Ngọc Minh Hằng was voted "Favorite Actress of the Year" by HTV Awards.^[4] She has released a music album for Hanco Food, Casio and Cyberworld, a game company.

In 2011, she officially departed from Thien Thi Entertainment and started embarking her career as a solo singer. Her career began to bloom as the audiences name her "Queen of Commercial" for being the face of many brands. In 2018, she becomes a coach of The Face Vietnam 2018 along side with Thanh Hang and Vo Hoang Yen. At the same time, she is the producer of her first movie ever named Season of Love Songs.

Early life

Lê Ngọc Minh Hằng was born in Ho Chi Minh City. She has a younger brother named Lê Ngọc Minh Hải. At age 13, her parents divorced, she and her brother came to live with her mother in Bình Thạnh.

It was said that her music career started from "Dreams within reach of the hands" music class of Ho Chi Minh City Culture House of Youth where famous musicians will primarily give short term vocal training course, dance lesson and basic how-to make a music band. She registered and luckily got enrolled.

In 2003, she and other 3 girls together established a girl group named Pha Le (Crystal) causing her busy for being responsible of show order and costume shopping,... During this time, she won the first prize of "Graceful Student" competition held by her then highschool, also became a model of some local magazines.

After quite a time performing, Pha Le didn't get much attention. One year later, she departed from the group to join another girl group named Tiamo that often performed at music shows within the city. Despite certain recognition, the group didn't reach their expectation. While participating and performing at Culture House of District 4, she accidentally knew that Giai Phong Films was casting for the movie Heaven Breeze, she submitted her profile and later invited to the audition. After rehearsing one line, director Lam Le Dung immediately cast her for the starring role of the movie.

Her role in Heaven Breeze caught lots of attention in spite of not having proper training in acting. In 2005, she signed a 2 year contract with Lasta Entertainment, following the contect deal, she would be Lasta's exclusive actress that made sure to make an appearance in 80 episodes per year.

In 2008, she debuted her first album titled Mot Vong Trai Dat which later became a hit when a variety of teenage audiences widely loved it, especially on the Internet. The debut album included 10 songs and most of them were composed by songwriter Nhat Trung, the album release set a record on sale as to be the highest sale of all times in Vietnam music industry. October 2008, she held her first ever national wide liveshow, starting from Middle Regions to North Regions such as: Nghe An, Thanh Hoa, Nam Dinh, Hai Phong, Ha Noi,...Singer Duy Khanh, rapper Young Uno and ABC dance group were the guests of her liveshow.

Photo leaking scandal

In April 1st 2009, plenty forums and websites published her photo leaking news, along with many photos capturing Minh Hang in sexy pose. Although the face of the girl was covered, it was easy to detect that was Minh Hang. Shortly after, she made an official statement and admitted it was her, at the same time she denied the accusation of taking nude photo, explaining that she took these photos since she had received 20th birthday gift from her mom. Regarding the reason of the leaking, she said that in Christmas 2008, there was a robbery at Thien Thi Entertainment of which her personal laptop was stolen (among 2 cameras). She had also talked about the robbery during an interview previously.

After several days of investigation, the person who posted the photos was discovered, who was teenager born in 1991 and being a member of gamevn.com under the username "MapleKhoa", which was also the first website posting the photo. Answering the question regarding his action, he explained that he had found these photos from foreign forum accusing that was Minh Hang. Carelessly thinking it was just a harmless joke, at the same time receiving support from other members, he decided to post the photo in March 28th 2009, even attaching eye-catching description such as "this is just the beginning, there are nude photos left and 10 minute clip". He extremely regretted and wasn't thoughtful enough to realize his joke was that serious. In April 3rd 2009, Minh Hang's spokeperson had a talk with the police and involved individuals regarding this incident.

Albums and prizes

• Một vòng trái đất (2008)
• Cô nàng đáng yêu (2010)
• Giờ em đã biết (2014)
• Yolo - You only live once (2015)

- 2008: got HTV Adward prize as "The Best Actress" of "Goi Giac Mo Ve" film

- 2010: got HTV Adward prize as "The Best Actress" of "Doi Mat" film

- 2011: got "Singer of Prospect" award of "Lan Song Xanh"

- 2013: was the winner in the third season of Dancing With The Star, with dancer, Atanas Georgiev Malamov

- 2015: was a jurywoman of "Bước nhảy hoàn vũ nhí" - Dancing With The Star for Kid

- 2015: got "Mai Vang" prize as "The Best Actress" of "Vua Di Vua Khoc" film

Filmography

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