Ai Diem Le

Australian actress, singer and model Ai Diem Le (pronounced eye yim leyh) was born on the 10th August in 1982, Adelaide, South Australia. Le is the eldest daughter of four to Vietnamese refugee parents, her father (fitter and turner) met her mother (retailer) in Australia. In 1989 her family moved interstate and settled in Melbourne. Ai Diem Le has a Masters in Health Science from Victoria University, trained in music at Box Hill Institute with an Advanced Diploma and graduated with a Drama major in her Bachelor degree at Deakin University. Ai Diem Le played her first leading role in the 1996 musical Barnum and has since continued to pursue her acting career in theatre and film. Ai Diem Le is affiliated with the Australasian Stage & Artworks Her first movie role was in A Nocturne (2007) an Independent film by Bill Mousoulis. Other indie films Le has appeared in are One More Tonight 2007 directed by Al Mehicevic, Remembrance 2007 Directed by Hoang Tran Nguyen for the Big West Festival, The Accidental Defrosting of Will Debney (2009) directed by Shane Dunlop, Living with Dementia 2008 directed by John Cherry, The Hollowmen (2008) Australian T.V. series Working Dog Productions, Suite for Fleur (2015) directed by Ron Brown, _Past the Hour (2012)_ directed by Seewoo Kim. Ai Diem Le starred in her first feature film in 2012 _Forget Me Not_ (QV) directed by Seewoo Kim and Director of Photography Damien Beebe. Stage actress, Ai Diem Le is a devout thespian having worked in such shows as Dinkum Assorted (2004) Phoenix Theatre Company Dir. Sue Dyring, Shakespeare in Saigon (2006) Fox Plays, Encore Theatre Dir. Doug Bennet, Mobility (2007) Dir. Simon Fisher, Hiroshima (2007), Hamlet Machine (2007) Dir. Glenn D'Cruz, Silence (2007) for the Emerging Writer Festival at the Melbourne Town Hall written by Hoa Pham, The Go Show (2008) for MAP in conjunction with the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Silence (2009) at LaMama Carlton Courthouse Dir. Wolf Heidecker, Silence (2010) Dir. Wolf Heidecker, LaMama Carlton Courthouse, The Quiet Brother (2012) Australasian Stage & Artworks, Dir. Teik-Kim Pok, Life's a Stage (2013) Dir. Joe Chan, Australasian Stage & Artworks, Life's a Stage (2014) Australasian Stage & Artworks, Dir. Joe Chan, Lotus Project (2015) Ai Diem lives her childhood dream of performing at The Malthouse Theatre with Playwriting Australia and in her most celebrated role as 'Thanh' in Shakespeare in Saigon (2015) with Strathmore Theatre Company, Directed by Cenarth Fox. In 2007 Le began singing with the Melbourne Women's Choir as a first Soprano. The choir is led under the much esteemed legendary vocal conductor Ms. Faye Dumont. Le has also worked as radio presenter for 3CR Community Radio in the shows The VoiceBox with Her Productions.