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{{distinguish|Le Nguyen|Nguyên Lê}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Tony Le-Nguyen
| name = Tony Le Nguyen
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| birth_name = Lê Thiện Toàn
| birth_name = Lê Thiện Toàn
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1968|10|3}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1968|10|3}}
| birth_place = [[Sa Đéc]], [[Mekong Delta]], [[Vietnam]]
| birth_place = [[Sa Đéc]], [[Mekong Delta]], Vietnam
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| occupation = Actor, filmmaker, teacher
| residence = [[Melbourne]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]]
| othername = Tony Lee, Lê Thiện Toàn
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| occupation = [[Actor]], filmmaker
| years_active = 1985–present
| years_active = 1985–present
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'''Tony Le-Nguyen''' is an [[Vietnamese Australians|Vietnamese-Australian]] actor, director, producer and writer. Le-Nguyen is perphaps best known for his role as Tiger in the 1992 Australian drama film ''[[Romper Stomper]]''. Before he started to acting and changed his name to Tony Lee since he began working as an actor in 1985. He is currently the Executive Producer for [https://www.youtube.com/LeNguyenProductions Le-Nguyen Productions] based in [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]].
'''Tony Le Nguyen''' is a [[Vietnamese Australians|Vietnamese-Australian]] actor, film-maker and teacher. Le-Nguyen is perhaps best known for his role as Tiger in the 1992 Australian drama film ''[[Romper Stomper]]''.


==Early life==
==Early life==
Le-Nguyen was born in [[Sa Đéc]], [[Mekong Delta]], [[Vietnam]] on 3 October 1968. In 1978, Le-Nguyen and his family moved from Vietnam to [[Melbourne]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]], when he was 10 years old.
Le Nguyen was born in as Lê Thiện Toàn<ref>{{cite web |last1=Le Nguyen |first1=Tony |title=Birth name |url=https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0498386 |website=IMDB |access-date=15 September 2021}}</ref>[[Sa Đéc]], [[Mekong Delta]], [[Vietnam]] on 3 October 1968.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ticketgo.vn/workshop-sang-tao-luc-giac-hop-nhat-cung-tony-le-nguyen|title=Workshop sáng tạo: 'Lục giác Hợp nhất' cùng Tony Lê Nguyễn|website=ticketgo.vn|language=vi|access-date=2019-06-17}}</ref> In 1978, Le-Nguyen and his family migrated from Vietnam to [[Melbourne, Victoria]], Australia, as [[Refugee|refugees]], when he was ten years old.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/tonys-story/|title=Tony's story|date=2011-04-01|website=Refugee Council of Australia|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-06-17}}</ref> In 1985 he changed his name to Tony Lee as he began working as an actor.


==Career==
==Career==
Le-Nguyen was the first Vietnamese-Australian to be appointed as an Official Prison Visitor to [[Port Phillip Correctional Centre|Port Phillip]] and [[Fulham Correctional Centre|Fulham]] Correctional Centres by the Minister for Corrections, the Honourable [[Andre Haermeyer]] in 2003 to act as an independent voice for the prison system in Victoria.
Le Nguyen is the first Vietnamese-Australian to be appointed as an Official Prison Visitor to [[Port Phillip Correctional Centre|Port Phillip]] and [[Fulham Correctional Centre|Fulham]] Correctional Centres by the Minister for Corrections, the Honourable [[Andre Haermeyer]] in 2003 to act as an independent voice for the prison system in Victoria.{{cn|date=February 2022}}


Le-Nguyen played Tiger in [[Geoffrey Wright]]’s 1992 Australian drama film ''[[Romper Stomper]]''<ref>{{Citation|title=Romper Stomper|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105275/|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref>. He has also appeared in other television productions including: ''[[Stingers (TV series)|Stingers]]'', ''[[SeaChange]]'', ''[[Raw FM]]'', ''[[G.P.]]'', ''[[Fast Forward (TV series)|Fast Forward]]'', ''[[All Together Now (Australian TV series)|All Together Now]]'', ''Embassy'', ''Secrets'', ''The Damnation of Harvey McHugh'', ''[[Paradise Beach]]'', ''Australia’s most wanted'' & ''[[Sword of Honour (miniseries)|Sword of Honour]]''<ref>{{Citation|title=Sword of Honour|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090532/|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref>.
Le Nguyen played Tiger in [[Geoffrey Wright]]’s 1992 Australian drama film ''[[Romper Stomper]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Le Nguyen |first1=Tony |title=Biographies of living person |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498386/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm |website=IMDb.com |publisher=IMDb}}</ref> He has also appeared in other television productions including: ''[[Stingers (TV series)|Stingers]]'', ''[[SeaChange]]'', ''[[Raw FM]]'', ''[[G.P.]]'', ''[[Fast Forward (Australian TV series)|Fast Forward]]'', ''[[All Together Now (Australian TV series)|All Together Now]]'', ''[[The Embassy (TV series)|Embassy]]'', ''[[Secrets (Australian TV series)|Secrets]]'', ''[[The Damnation of Harvey McHugh]]'', ''[[Paradise Beach]]'', ''[[Australia's Most Wanted|Australia’s most wanted]]'' & ''[[Sword of Honour (miniseries)|Sword of Honour]]''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Le Nguyen |first1=Tony |title=Biographies of living person |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498386/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm |website=IMDb.com |publisher=IMDb |access-date=15 September 2021}}</ref>


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Between 1986 and 1987, Le Nguyen toured with [[Mary Coustas]] in [[Handspan Theatre]]’s<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://handspantheatre.com.au/|title=Handspan Theatre|website=handspantheatre.com.au|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref> production ''A Change of Face''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.handspantheatre.com.au/info/A+Change+of+Face|title=Handspan Theatre {{!}} A Change of Face|website=Handspan Theatre|language=en|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref> written by Andrea Lemon and directed by Carmelina di Guglielmo. He worked on the [[Victorian Opera (Melbourne)|Victorian Opera]] 1990 production of ''Madama Butterfly'' and performed in Theatreworks 1993 production of Titus, directed by [[David Pledger]] and Robert Draffin.
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Le-Nguyen studied Television Production at [[RMIT]] in 1989 and completed his Bachelor of Arts (Drama/Community Development) in 1998 and Diploma of Education in 2000 at [[Victoria University of Technology|Victoria University]].


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In May 1994, he founded Australian Vietnamese Youth Media<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/organisation/8139|title=AusStage|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref> with the support of Huu Tran and David Everist, the theatre coordinator at the Footscray Community Arts Centre.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://footscrayarts.com/|title=Footscray Community Arts Centre|last=Twenty4|website=Footscray Community Arts Centre|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref> The company received its first funding from the Queens Trust in 1995 to produce ''Chay Vong Vong'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/99849|title=AusStage|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref> a play he wrote and directed with the Vietnamese Community in [[Footscray, Victoria|Footscray]], Melbourne. The following year, this organisation received funding from the [[Australia Council for the Arts]] and the [[Sidney Myer|Sidney Myer Foundation]] to re-stage ''Chay Vong Vong''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/28689|title=AusStage|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref> as a fully professional production at the Napier Street Theatre, in [[South Melbourne, Victoria|South Melbourne]]. In 1998 he was commissioned by [[Urban Theatre Projects|Urban Theatre]] Projects to write and direct ''"Chay Vong Vong''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://urbantheatre.com.au/critical-writing/the-middle-years-death-defying-theatre-transformed/|title=The middle years: Death Defying Theatre transformed – By Ian Maxwell|date=2012-12-02|website=Urban Theatre Projects|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref>''"'' with the Vietnamese Community in Sydney, Australia.
He was awarded the Community Cultural Development Fellowship by the [[Australia Council for the Arts]] in 2000.


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Le Nguyen has directed and produced such professional and community productions as ''A Time of Your Life'', St. Martins Youth Theatre and Flemington Community Centre 1996, ''Now I Lay Me Down'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/31263|title=AusStage|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref> [[La Mama Theatre (Melbourne)|La Mama]] 1997, ''Taboo'', [[Next Wave Festival]] 1998, ''"Aussie Bia Om'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/11851|title=AusStage|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref> 2001 Fringe Festival and directed segments for the BigWest Festival in 1997 and 2000, Children of the Dragon 2005,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/96017|title=AusStage|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref> Silent 2007<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/77966|title=AusStage|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref> He co-directed ''Worlds Apart'' in 1996 with Gary McKechnie, a half-hour Television drama about generation conflict within a Vietnamese Australian family. ''Worlds Apart'' was first screened on [[Special Broadcasting Service|SBS Television]] in December 1997.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Le Nguyen |first1=Tony |title=Work |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498386/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm |website=IMDb.com |publisher=IMDb}}</ref>
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Between 1986 and 1987, Le-Nguyen toured with [[Mary Coustas]] in [[Handspan Theatre]]’s<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://handspantheatre.com.au/|title=Handspan Theatre|website=handspantheatre.com.au|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref> production ''A Change of Face''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.handspantheatre.com.au/info/A+Change+of+Face|title=Handspan Theatre {{!}} A Change of Face|website=Handspan Theatre|language=en|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref> written by Andrea Lemon and directed by Carmelina di Guglielmo. He worked on the [[Victorian Opera (Melbourne)|Victorian Opera]] 1990 production of ''Madama Butterfly'' and performed in [http://www.theatreworks.org.au/ Theatreworks] 1992 production of Titus, directed by [https://web.archive.org/web/20120425151923/http://www.ozscript.org/playwright466.html David Pledger] and Robert Draffin


Le Nguyen began teaching drama at Blackbox, Hanoi in December 2013 and directed his first Vietnamese 30-minute drama "Mơ Chua" (Sour Apricots) in 2015. He is the director of The Drama Lab, Hanoi which he founded in 2021<ref>{{cite web |last1=Le Nguyen |first1=Tony |title=Current position |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/drama-vn/ |website=linkedin }}</ref> and currently teaching life-skills using drama for KOTO, a not-for-profit social enterprise that empowers at-risk and disadvantaged youth in Vietnam founded by Jimmy Pham.
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In May 1994, he founded Australian Vietnamese Youth Media<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/organisation/8139|title=AusStage|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref> with the support of Huu Tran and David Everist, the theatre coordinator at the Footscray Community Arts Centre<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://footscrayarts.com/|title=Footscray Community Arts Centre|last=Twenty4|website=Footscray Community Arts Centre|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref>. The company received its first funding from the Queens Trust in 1995 to produce ''Chay Vong Vong''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/99849|title=AusStage|last=|first=|date=|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref>, a play he wrote and directed with the Vietnamese Community in [[Footscray, Victoria|Footscray]], Melbourne. The following year, this organisation received funding from the [[Australia Council for the Arts]] and the [[Sidney Myer|Sidney Myer Foundation]] to re-stage ''Chay Vong Vong''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/28689|title=AusStage|last=|first=|date=|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref> as a fully professional production at the Napier Street Theatre, in [[South Melbourne, Victoria|South Melbourne]]. In 1998 he was commissioned by Urban Theatre Projects to write and direct ''"Chay Vong Vong''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://urbantheatre.com.au/critical-writing/the-middle-years-death-defying-theatre-transformed/|title=The middle years: Death Defying Theatre transformed – By Ian Maxwell|date=2012-12-02|website=Urban Theatre Projects|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref>''"'' with the Vietnamese Community in Sydney, Australia.

==Education==
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Le Nguyen studied Television Production at [[RMIT]] in 1989 and completed his Bachelor of Arts (Drama/Community Development) in 1998 and Diploma of Education in 2000 at [[Victoria University of Technology|Victoria University]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Le Nguyen |first1=Tony |title=Education |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498386/ |website=IMDb.com |access-date=15 September 2021}}</ref>

==Awards==
He was awarded the Community Cultural Development Fellowship by the [[Australia Council for the Arts]] in 2000.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Le Nguyen |first1=Tony |title=Awards |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498386/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm |website=IMDb.com |publisher=IMDb |access-date=15 September 2021}}</ref>

He was inducted into the 2024 Victoria Multicultural Honour Roll by the [https://www.multiculturalcommission.vic.gov.au/multicultural-awards-for-excellence Victorian Multicultural Commission]


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Le-Nguyen has directed and produced such professional and community productions as ''A Time of Your Life'', [http://www.stmartinsyouth.com.au/ St. Martins Youth Theatre] and Flemington Community Centre 1996, ''Now I Lay Me Down''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/31263|title=AusStage|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref>, [[La Mama Theatre (Melbourne)|La Mama]] 1997, ''Taboo'', [[Next Wave Festival]] 1998, ''"Aussie Bia Om''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/11851|title=AusStage|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref>, 2001 [http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/ Fringe Festival] and directed segments for the [https://web.archive.org/web/20031210173645/http://www.bigwest.com.au/ BigWest Festival] in 1997 and 2000, Children of the Dragon 2005<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/96017|title=AusStage|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref>, Silent 2007<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/77966|title=AusStage|website=www.ausstage.edu.au|access-date=2019-06-16}}</ref> He co-directed ''Worlds Apart'' in 1996 with Gary McKechnie, a half-hour Television drama about generation conflict within a Vietnamese Australian family. ''Worlds Apart'' was first screened on [[Special Broadcasting Service|SBS Television]] in December 1997.


Le-Nguyen began teaching drama at Blackbox, Hanoi from December, 2013 and directed his first Vietnamese 30 minutes drama "Mơ Chua" in 2015.


==Filmography==
==Filmography==
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===Films===
===Films===
* ''[[Romper Stomper]]'' (1992)
* ''[[Romper Stomper]]'' (1992)
* ''A Royal Commission Into the Australian Economy'' (1993)
* ''A Royal Commission Into the Australian Economy'' (1993) (TV film)


===TV series===
===TV series===
* ''[[Sword of Honour (miniseries)|Sword of Honour]]'' (1986) (1 episode)
* ''[[Sword of Honour (miniseries)|Sword of Honour]]'' (1986) (1 episode)
* ''[[Yellowthread Street]]'' (1990) (1 episode)
* ''[[Embassy (TV series)|Embassy]]'' (1990) (1 episode)
* ''[[Embassy (TV series)|Embassy]]'' (1990) (1 episode)
* ''[[Boys from the Bush]]'' (1991)
* ''[[Boys from the Bush]]'' (1991)
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* ''[[Stingers (TV series)|Stingers]]'' (2000) (1 episode)
* ''[[Stingers (TV series)|Stingers]]'' (2000) (1 episode)
* ''[[SeaChange]]'' (2000) (1 episode)
* ''[[SeaChange]]'' (2000) (1 episode)

* ''[[Neighbours]]'' (2001-2002) (2 episodes)
==References==
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
*[https://thedramalab.com The Drama Lab]
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140228150642/http://theblackbox.vn/ The Blackbox Theatre Vietnam]
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*{{IMDb name | id=0498386 | name=Tony Le Nguyen}}
*[https://www.youtube.com/LeNguyenProductions Youtube Le-Nguyen Productions]
*[https://www.youtube.com/LeNguyenProductions Youtube Le-Nguyen Productions]
*[https://tonylenguyen.wordpress.com/ Tony Le-Nguyen Blog]
*[https://tonylenguyen.wordpress.com/ Tony Le-Nguyen Blog]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130806211944/http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/r/pro-ind/tnguyen.php Refugee Council of Australia]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130806211944/http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/r/pro-ind/tnguyen.php Refugee Council of Australia]
*[http://www.orca.on.net/dare/le_nguyen.html I'M AN ARTIST BUT... ,1997 DARE CCD Conference in Brisbane, Australia 1997]
*[http://www.orca.on.net/dare/nguyen.html CCD IN THE YOUTH SECTOR, 1997 DARE CCD Conference in Brisbane, Australia 1997]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060821195213/http://www.milkbar.com.au/globalhistory/tony.htm Australian Content]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060821195213/http://www.milkbar.com.au/globalhistory/tony.htm Australian Content]
*[http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/deepend/stories/s777648.htm The Deep End, Radio National, ABC 2003]
*[http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/deepend/stories/s777648.htm The Deep End, Radio National, ABC 2003]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060716151756/http://www.ozco.gov.au/ Australia Council for the Arts.]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060716151756/http://www.ozco.gov.au/ Australia Council for the Arts.]
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140228150642/http://theblackbox.vn/ The Blackbox Theatre Vietnam]
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*{{IMDb name | id=0498386 | name=Tony Lee}}
*[http://giaitri.vnexpress.net/tin-tuc/san-khau-my-thuat/dao-dien-goc-viet-tony-le-nguyen-day-dien-xuat-o-vn-2915004.html Đạo Diễn Úc Góc Việt]
*[http://giaitri.vnexpress.net/tin-tuc/san-khau-my-thuat/dao-dien-goc-viet-tony-le-nguyen-day-dien-xuat-o-vn-2915004.html Đạo Diễn Úc Góc Việt]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160308013911/http://tapchilifestyle.com/dao-dien-tony-le-nguyen-va-cuoc-hanh-trinh-tim-kiem-nhung-giac-mo/ Cuộc Hành Trình-Tìm Kiếm Những Giấc Mơ]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160308013911/http://tapchilifestyle.com/dao-dien-tony-le-nguyen-va-cuoc-hanh-trinh-tim-kiem-nhung-giac-mo/ Cuộc Hành Trình-Tìm Kiếm Những Giấc Mơ]
*[http://dienanhvietnam.com.vn/chan-dung/chi-tiet-dao-dien-tony-le-nguyen-%E2%80%93-%E2%80%9C-toi-la-mot-dao-dien-bi-khung%E2%80%9D.html/ Tôi là một đạo diễn bị khùng]
*[http://dienanhvietnam.com.vn/chan-dung/chi-tiet-dao-dien-tony-le-nguyen-%E2%80%93-%E2%80%9C-toi-la-mot-dao-dien-bi-khung%E2%80%9D.html/ Tôi là một đạo diễn bị khùng]
*[https://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/vietnamese/vi/audiotrack/second-generations-68-director-tony-le-nguyen?language=vi Thế hệ thứ Hai (Bài 68): Đạo diễn Tony Lê Nguyễn và duyên nợ với nghệ thuật]
*[https://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/vietnamese/vi/audiotrack/second-generations-68-director-tony-le-nguyen?language=vi Thế hệ thứ Hai (Bài 68): Đạo diễn Tony Lê Nguyễn và duyên nợ với nghệ thuật]
*[https://vietnamnet.vn/en/entertainment-sports/an-ardent-love-for-the-seventh-art-577128.html An Ardent Love for the Seventh Art]
*[https://fulbright.edu.vn/tag/bridge/ Fulbright University Vietnam’s Bridge Program]
*[https://ued.udn.vn/moi-truong-su-pham/giao-luu-cung-dao-dien-tony-le-nguyen-sang-tao-de-duoc-ton-tai-279.html Sáng tạo để được tồn tại]
*[https://gdnt.ued.udn.vn/tintucchung/hoc-kich-nghe-cung-nghe-si-tony-le-nguyen-xay-dung-ky-nang-to-chuc-hoat-dong-trai-nghiem-cho-sinh-vien-nganh-su-pham-am-nhac-41.html Xây dựng kỹ năng cho sinh viên ngành sư phạm âm nhạc]
*[https://ued.udn.vn/moi-truong-su-pham/buoi-thi-dien-tieu-pham-thuoc-chuyen-de-kich-nghe-cua-cac-ban-sinh-vien-nganh-su-pham-am-nhac-khoa-giao-duc-nghe-thuat-898.html Buổi thi diễn tiểu phẩm thuộc chuyên đề kịch nghệ của sinh viên ngành sư phạm âm nhạc – khoa giáo dục nghệ thuật]
*[https://www.danang.gov.vn/web/guest/chinh-quyen/chi-tiet?id=48753&_c=3 Lan tỏa tình yêu thiên nhiên và bảo vệ Voọc chà vá chân nâu qua nghệ thuật]
*[https://greenviet.org/tin-tuc/nghe-thuat-sang-tao-trong-giao-duc-bao-ton-thien-nhien/ Chương trình kịch nghệ trong giáo dục bảo tồn thiên nhiên]
*[https://vannghedanang.org.vn/chuong-trinh-nghe-thuat-ban-hoa-tau-thien-nhien-9816.html Bản hòa tấu thiên nhiên]
*[https://genk.vn/hanh-trinh-48h-day-cam-xuc-voi-cuoc-thi-lam-phim-nhanh-cung-sony-20220906161557062.chn Hành trình 48h đầy cảm xúc với cuộc thi Làm phim nhanh cùng Sony]
*[https://vov3.vov.vn/am-nhac-viet-nam-ca-khuc/thieu-nhi/nhac-kich-the-jungle-book-he-2023-mang-san-choi-3-trong-1-den-tre-em-324.vov Nhạc kịch the Jungle Book của Art-town]


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Latest revision as of 11:48, 11 December 2024

Not to be confused with Le Nguyen or Nguyên Lê.

Tony Le Nguyen
Born
Lê Thiện Toàn

(1968-10-03) 3 October 1968 (age 56)
Sa Đéc, Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Occupation(s)Actor, filmmaker, teacher
Years active1985–present

Tony Le Nguyen is a Vietnamese-Australian actor, film-maker and teacher. Le-Nguyen is perhaps best known for his role as Tiger in the 1992 Australian drama film Romper Stomper.

Early life

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Le Nguyen was born in as Lê Thiện Toàn[1]Sa Đéc, Mekong Delta, Vietnam on 3 October 1968.[2] In 1978, Le-Nguyen and his family migrated from Vietnam to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, as refugees, when he was ten years old.[3] In 1985 he changed his name to Tony Lee as he began working as an actor.

Career

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Le Nguyen is the first Vietnamese-Australian to be appointed as an Official Prison Visitor to Port Phillip and Fulham Correctional Centres by the Minister for Corrections, the Honourable Andre Haermeyer in 2003 to act as an independent voice for the prison system in Victoria.[citation needed]

Le Nguyen played Tiger in Geoffrey Wright’s 1992 Australian drama film Romper Stomper.[4] He has also appeared in other television productions including: Stingers, SeaChange, Raw FM, G.P., Fast Forward, All Together Now, Embassy, Secrets, The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, Paradise Beach, Australia’s most wanted & Sword of Honour[5]

Between 1986 and 1987, Le Nguyen toured with Mary Coustas in Handspan Theatre’s[6] production A Change of Face[7] written by Andrea Lemon and directed by Carmelina di Guglielmo. He worked on the Victorian Opera 1990 production of Madama Butterfly and performed in Theatreworks 1993 production of Titus, directed by David Pledger and Robert Draffin.

In May 1994, he founded Australian Vietnamese Youth Media[8] with the support of Huu Tran and David Everist, the theatre coordinator at the Footscray Community Arts Centre.[9] The company received its first funding from the Queens Trust in 1995 to produce Chay Vong Vong,[10] a play he wrote and directed with the Vietnamese Community in Footscray, Melbourne. The following year, this organisation received funding from the Australia Council for the Arts and the Sidney Myer Foundation to re-stage Chay Vong Vong[11] as a fully professional production at the Napier Street Theatre, in South Melbourne. In 1998 he was commissioned by Urban Theatre Projects to write and direct "Chay Vong Vong[12]" with the Vietnamese Community in Sydney, Australia.

Le Nguyen has directed and produced such professional and community productions as A Time of Your Life, St. Martins Youth Theatre and Flemington Community Centre 1996, Now I Lay Me Down,[13] La Mama 1997, Taboo, Next Wave Festival 1998, "Aussie Bia Om,[14] 2001 Fringe Festival and directed segments for the BigWest Festival in 1997 and 2000, Children of the Dragon 2005,[15] Silent 2007[16] He co-directed Worlds Apart in 1996 with Gary McKechnie, a half-hour Television drama about generation conflict within a Vietnamese Australian family. Worlds Apart was first screened on SBS Television in December 1997.[17]

Le Nguyen began teaching drama at Blackbox, Hanoi in December 2013 and directed his first Vietnamese 30-minute drama "Mơ Chua" (Sour Apricots) in 2015. He is the director of The Drama Lab, Hanoi which he founded in 2021[18] and currently teaching life-skills using drama for KOTO, a not-for-profit social enterprise that empowers at-risk and disadvantaged youth in Vietnam founded by Jimmy Pham.

Education

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Le Nguyen studied Television Production at RMIT in 1989 and completed his Bachelor of Arts (Drama/Community Development) in 1998 and Diploma of Education in 2000 at Victoria University.[19]

Awards

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He was awarded the Community Cultural Development Fellowship by the Australia Council for the Arts in 2000.[20]

He was inducted into the 2024 Victoria Multicultural Honour Roll by the Victorian Multicultural Commission


Filmography

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Films

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  • Romper Stomper (1992)
  • A Royal Commission Into the Australian Economy (1993) (TV film)

TV series

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References

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  1. ^ Le Nguyen, Tony. "Birth name". IMDB. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Workshop sáng tạo: 'Lục giác Hợp nhất' cùng Tony Lê Nguyễn". ticketgo.vn (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Tony's story". Refugee Council of Australia. 1 April 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
  4. ^ Le Nguyen, Tony. "Biographies of living person". IMDb.com. IMDb.
  5. ^ Le Nguyen, Tony. "Biographies of living person". IMDb.com. IMDb. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Handspan Theatre". handspantheatre.com.au. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Handspan Theatre | A Change of Face". Handspan Theatre. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  8. ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  9. ^ Twenty4. "Footscray Community Arts Centre". Footscray Community Arts Centre. Retrieved 16 June 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  11. ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  12. ^ "The middle years: Death Defying Theatre transformed – By Ian Maxwell". Urban Theatre Projects. 2 December 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  13. ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  14. ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  15. ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  16. ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  17. ^ Le Nguyen, Tony. "Work". IMDb.com. IMDb.
  18. ^ Le Nguyen, Tony. "Current position". linkedin.
  19. ^ Le Nguyen, Tony. "Education". IMDb.com. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  20. ^ Le Nguyen, Tony. "Awards". IMDb.com. IMDb. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
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