Biography
Hiep Thi Le (February 18, 1971 – December 19, 2017) was an American actress, and later restaurateur, best known for her role in Heaven & Earth (1993). She was a refugee of the Vietnam War and fled the country with her mother and sister at the age of 9.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Cruel Intentions
2016
as Mai-Lee
Fifteen years after the death of her brother, villainous Kathryn Merteuil seeks to manipulate her nephew, Bash, and gain control of the family busines...
Touch
2011
as Mother
A mechanic looking to save his faltering marriage strikes up an unlikely friendship with a shy Vietnamese-American manicurist.
Sympathy for Delicious
2010
as Female Voluteer
A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.
The Princess of Nebraska
2008
as Mother at Mall
Sasha is a young woman from Beijing, studying in Nebraska. She flies to the Bay Area and meets up with friends, including Boshen, a gay man who was th...
Julia
2008
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
National Security
2003
as McDuff's Secretary
Earl Montgomery, a bombastic police academy reject, and Hank Rafferty, a disgraced, mild-mannered cop, can't seem to escape each other. They met on op...
Green Dragon
2001
as Thuy Hoa
A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon' focuses on a young boy an...
Shark in a Bottle
2000
as The Tutor
Guy Normal (probably not his real name) is clumsy, has amnesia, and has fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous man who arranges killings for hire. T...
Cruel Intentions
1999
as Mai-Lee
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. I...
Dead Men Can't Dance
1997
as Sgt. Mia Yan Chun
To stamp out the threat of nuclear war, a special ops team must travel to North Korea to carry out a covert mission to destroy a nuclear power plant. ...
Arnold's Christmas
1996
as Mai (voice)
When Arnold receives Mr. Hyunh's name in the boarding house's annual Secret Santa draw, he decides to make it the most special Christmas ever for the ...
Bugis Street
1995
as Lian
In 1960s Singapore when Bugis Street was a center of transvestite and transsexual prostitution, naïve sixteen-year-old Lian comes of age working as a ...
Heaven & Earth
1993
as Le Ly
In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she encounters...