Anh Duong

Anh Duong was born on Oct 25, 1960 in France. Anh Duong's big-screen debut came with The Mambo Kings directed by Arne Glimcher in 1992. Anh Duong is known for Uncut Gems directed by Benny Safdie, Mesfin Lamengo stars as Wounded Miner and Sun Zhi Hua-Hilton as Mine Foreman. The upcoming new movie Anh Duong plays is Uncut Gems which will be released on Dec 25, 2019.

Anh Duong was born in France to a Spanish mother and a Vietnamese father. She studied Classical dance and started as a top model. In 1988, she moved to New York and began a career as an artist and an actress. She was cast in the Mambo Kings as her first role in a featured film. Her career also includes roles in films such as I Shot Andy Warhol, and High Art by Lisa Cholodenko which was presented in Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals. Duong also acted in two films by French director Laetitia Masson, For Sale and Love Me which was screened in the Berlin Film Festival. After a break of ten years from acting while she was focusing on her art career. Duong started again with her role of Nasrin in Appropriate Behavior by Desiree Akhavan in the Sundance competition - GHB of French director Laetitia Masson and Abel Ferrara Welcome to New York. And The only living boy in New York with Pierce Brosnan Cynthia Nixon Debi Mazar and Wallace Shawn.As for her Art career in 1991 Sperone Westwater Gallery featured Duong's first painting exhibition in New York. Her earliest self-portrait was included in a 1997 show at the PMMK Museum of Modern Art in Ostend, Belgium. Two years later (1999), the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont in Paris presented her first solo exhibition of self-portraits with more than 65 works on display Duong has since become a recognized painter in New York City. Her latest solo exhibitions in New York have been at the Sonnabend gallery and London at the Robilant&Voena gallery. Duong has worked on portraits such as Bruno Bischofberger, Simon de Pury, Angelica Houston, Susan Sarandon. Duong's latest portrait has been a sculpture standing nine feet tall in stainless steel of Diane von Furstenberg for the figurehead of Barry Diller's yacht. She has sculpted the 50 stars that is part of the entrance mural for the the Statue of Liberty new museum opened in 2018. She is currently working on the 35 sculptures of the birds for the entrance wall of the new headquarters of the Hillary Clinton foundation Vital Voices in Washington DC opening in May 2022. A retrospective of 20 of her paintings has been exhibited at the Gmurzynska gallery in Zurich summer 2021. She is having her first show in Los Angeles opening April 2022 at the Spring Place Beverly Hills. The National Portrait gallery in Washington DC has acquired a portrait she made of Diane von Furstenberg for their permanent collection. She lately starred in the Kate Spade- H&M -Bergdorf Goodman Miu Miu- Pomellato and Thom Browne campaigns to name a few. A book has been published of her work by Assouline (Self)-Portraits She received the Veuve Clicquot Tribute to Inspiring Women Award Duong lives currently between New York / Paris. She is fluent in french, english and spanish.