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'''Tony Le-Nguyen''', born as '''Lê Thiện Toàn''' in 1968 in the [[Mekong Delta]] region of [[South Vietnam]], changed his name to Tony Lee since he began working as an actor in 1985. Over the past 30 years, Le-Nguyen has worked as an actor, writer, director and producer. He is currently the Executive Producer for [https://www.youtube.com/LeNguyenProductions Le-Nguyen Productions] based in [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]].
| name = Tony Le-Nguyen
| image =
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| birth_name = Lê Thiện Toàn
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1968|11|3}}
| birth_place = [[Sa Đéc]], [[Mekong Delta]], [[Vietnam]]
| residence = [[Melbourne]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]]
| othername = Tony Lee
| occupation = [[Actor]], filmmaker
| years_active = 1985–present
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'''Tony Le-Nguyen''' (born '''Lê Thiện Toàn''' 3 November 1968) is an [[Vietnamese Australian|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]].

==Early life==
Le-Nguyen was born in [[Sa Đéc]], [[Mekong Delta]], [[Vietnam]] on 3 November 1968. In 1978, Le-Nguyen and his family moved from Vietnam to [[Melbourne]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]], when he was 9 or 10 years old.


==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 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.


He is best known for his role as Tiger in [[Geoffrey Wright]]’s 1992 feature 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>{{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 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]].
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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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
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


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.
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.


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


==References==
==Filmography==

{{Reflist}}
===Films===
* ''[[Romper Stomper]]'' (1992)
* ''A Royal Commission Into the Australian Economy'' (1993)

===TV series===
* ''[[Sword of Honour (miniseries)|Sword of Honour]]'' (1986) (1 episode)
* ''[[Yellowthread Street]]'' (1990) (1 episode)
* ''[[Embassy (TV series)|Embassy]]'' (1990) (1 episode)
* ''[[Boys from the Bush]]'' (1991)
* ''[[All Together Now (1991 Australian TV series)|All Together Now]]'' (1991) (1 episode)
* ''[[English at Work]]'' (1991) (1 episode)
* ''[[Paradise Beach]]'' (1993) (1 episode)
* ''[[Secrets (Australian TV series)|Secrets]]'' (1994) (1 episode)
* ''[[The Damnation of Harvey McHugh]]'' (1994) (1 episode)
* ''[[G.P.]]'' (1995) (1 episode)
* ''[[Raw FM]]'' (1997) (1 episode)
* ''[[Stingers (TV series)|Stingers]]'' (2000) (1 episode)
* ''[[SeaChange]]'' (2000) (1 episode)
* ''[[Neighbours]]'' (2001-2002) (2 episodes)


==External links==
==External links==
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Tony Le-Nguyen
Born
Lê Thiện Toàn

(1968-11-03) 3 November 1968 (age 56)
Sa Đéc, Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Other namesTony Lee
Occupation(s)Actor, filmmaker
Years active1985–present

Tony Le-Nguyen (born Lê Thiện Toàn 3 November 1968) is an 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 Le-Nguyen Productions based in Melbourne, Australia.

Early life

Le-Nguyen was born in Sa Đéc, Mekong Delta, Vietnam on 3 November 1968. In 1978, Le-Nguyen and his family moved from Vietnam to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, when he was 9 or 10 years old.

Career

Le-Nguyen was 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.

Le-Nguyen played Tiger in Geoffrey Wright’s 1992 Australian drama film Romper Stomper[1]. 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[2].

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.

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

Between 1986 and 1987, Le-Nguyen toured with Mary Coustas in Handspan Theatre’s[3] production A Change of Face[4] 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 1992 production of Titus, directed by David Pledger and Robert Draffin

In May 1994, he founded Australian Vietnamese Youth Media[5] with the support of Huu Tran and David Everist, the theatre coordinator at the Footscray Community Arts Centre[6]. The company received its first funding from the Queens Trust in 1995 to produce Chay Vong Vong[7], 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[8] 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[9]" 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[10], La Mama 1997, Taboo, Next Wave Festival 1998, "Aussie Bia Om[11], 2001 Fringe Festival and directed segments for the BigWest Festival in 1997 and 2000, Children of the Dragon 2005[12], Silent 2007[13] 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.

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

Filmography

Films

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

TV series

  1. ^ Romper Stomper, retrieved 2019-06-16
  2. ^ Sword of Honour, retrieved 2019-06-16
  3. ^ "Handspan Theatre". handspantheatre.com.au. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
  4. ^ "Handspan Theatre | A Change of Face". Handspan Theatre. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
  5. ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
  6. ^ Twenty4. "Footscray Community Arts Centre". Footscray Community Arts Centre. Retrieved 2019-06-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-06-16. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  8. ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-06-16. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  9. ^ "The middle years: Death Defying Theatre transformed – By Ian Maxwell". Urban Theatre Projects. 2012-12-02. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
  10. ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
  11. ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
  12. ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
  13. ^ "AusStage". www.ausstage.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
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