Tất Bình

Birthday:

08/16/1949

Place of birth:

Hanoi, Vietnam:

Biography:

Tất Bình (full name Đặng Tất Bình, b. 16 August 1949 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese actor and director, and the former director of the Feature Film Studio 1. Before starting his career in film, he worked as a theater actor and a voice actor. Tất Bình began gaining recognition through his first role onscreen, as inspector Phương in the film "The Last Hope" (Hy vọng cuối cùng, d. Trần Phương, 1981). He later co-directed with Trần Phương in the film "One Who Looks for a Forgotten past" (Người đi tìm dĩ vãng, 1992); then went on to direct the TV feature "The Notebook of Life" (Cuốn sổ ghi đời, 1994). In 1998, he made "Moon on Foreign Land" (Trăng trên đất khách), a Vietnamese-Russian co-production and the first Vietnamese film to focus on people working and living far from their home country. In 2002, Tất Bình released "The Backstage Slap" (Cái tát sau cánh gà), which became one of the two Vietnamese entries into the 47th Asia-Pacific Film Festival. He continues to act and direct in the years following.