^ a b c d 'Hiep Le Obituary вЂ“ Peek Funeral Home вЂ“ Westminster CA'.She was acknowledged in the In Memoriam segment at the 90th Academy Awards. Le died on December 19, 2017, in Los Angeles from stomach cancer at the age of 46. On February 23, 2014, Le appeared on the Food Network game show Chopped, competing in the eighteenth-season episode 'Beer Here!' Although she survived the appetizer round, she was eliminated in the entree round. As of 2016, she owned the restaurant Le Cellier with Mark Van Gessel and Bernard Louberssac. This unique cuisine combines the fresh herbs of Vietnamese food with the fine heritage of country French cooking', Le said. 'Although it's not easy to find out here, French-Vietnamese food dates back to the 18th century. After 10 years at that location, Hiep closed China Beach and opened Le Cellier, a French-Vietnamese fusion restaurant on the Venice and Marina del Rey border in 2012. Restaurateur ДЄfter a long career in the film industry, Le opened up The China Beach Bistro, a Vietnamese restaurant in Venice, Los Angeles in 2002. She appeared in Green Dragon in 2001, opposite Patrick Swayze and Forest Whitaker.

Le made an appearance in the 1999 film Bastards. Le subsequently appeared in Bugis Street (1995, released in the United States in 1997) and co-starred in the little-seen Dead Man Can't Dance (1997). I have grown so much in the past two years, but the experiences that I went through throughout my whole life really made me what I am today.' Later career When Le was asked what she had learned from her experience with the film: 'I have grown a lot. In his review of the film, Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan described her as 'nonprofessional but very capable.' I didn't feel that it was necessary she was a natural.' ДЄlthough the film required Le to age over 30 years and cast her opposite a number of accomplished American and Asian actors, the untrained actress received excellent reviews citing her sensitivity and actorly grace as Hayslip. We tested her out for about five months, continuously, and she won the role. We worked with her, put her on video with other actors, introduced her to Tommy Lee Jones and Joan Chen and Haing S. ДЄccording to Stone, 'Our people saw her, put her on video, thought she was electric, and flew her down to Los Angeles. They kept calling me back.' In the film, she plays a woman who ages from 13 to 38, who is raped and tortured in Vietnam and who becomes an abused housewife, mother, and businesswoman in the United States. My cousin heard about these auditions for a movie, and I just went with a friend to see what it was about. Le was one of 16,000 Vietnamese-Americans seen by casting scouts for Oliver Stone's Heaven & Earth and was finally chosen for the starring role (of Le Ly Hayslip). As a college student, she went to an open casting call in Northern California 'because all my friends were doing it for fun' and ended up being cast in the leading role of Oliver Stone's third Vietnam film, Heaven & Earth (1993), set amid the turmoil of the Vietnam War.ДЄcting career Heaven and Earth Le originally had plans to graduate in June 1993 and pursue a career in science.

She attended the University of California, Davis with a major in physiology. Д®ventually, Le moved to Oakland, California as a child, where her mother worked at a French-Vietnamese restaurant. Le's entire family вЂ“ her parents and five children вЂ“ were eventually reunited in Northern California. They eventually reunited with her father in Hong Kong. Her sister survived, and when they both reached port, they stayed in a Hong Kong refugee camp. I thought her eyes were going to fall out of their sockets', she says. 'Tears rolled down her face, but there was no more crying. Le witnessed it and it scarred her for life. That night, a fishing boat captain grabbed her screaming 7-year-old sister and put a knife to her throat. Everyone thought we were going to die', she says. Sometime during the night, just as we arrived at a Vietnamese checkpoint, my sister woke up and started screaming for our momma. ДЄlong with approximately 60 other refugees, hid in a secret compartment behind a galley pantry on a fishing boat sailing to Hong Kong to reunite with their father. We were told by my mom that we had to go look for Dad, and that he had gone to someplace called 'America', which we interpreted was the city across the river, since it had lights. When Le was nine years old, she fled Vietnam with her mother and sister. In 1978, her father became a refugee who defected from Vietnam to Hong Kong. Le was born on February 18, 1971, in Da Nang, South Vietnam.

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