Minh Hằng

Lê Ngọc Minh Hằng was born in Ho Chi Minh City. She has a younger brother named Lê Ngọc Minh Hải. At age 13, her parents divorced, she and her brother came to live with her mother in Bình Thạnh.[3]

It was said that her music career started from "Dreams within reach of the hands" music class of Ho Chi Minh City Culture House of Youth where famous musicians will primarily give short term vocal training course, dance lesson and basic how-to form a music band.[6] She registered and luckily got enrolled.

In 2003, she and three other girls together established a girl group named Pha Lê (Crystal) causing her busy for being responsible of show order and costume shopping,... During this time, she won the first prize of Nữ Sinh Thanh Lịch (Graceful Student) competition held by her then high school, also became a model of some local magazines.[7]

After quite a time performing, the Pha Lê girlgroup did not gain much attention. One year later, she departed from the group to join another girl group named Tiamo that often performed at music shows in the city. Despite certain recognition, the group did not reach their expectation. While participating and performing at Culture House of Children of District 4, she accidentally knew that Giai Phong Films was casting for the movie Gió Thiên Đường (Heaven Breeze), she submitted her portfolio and later invited to the audition. After rehearsing one line of the script, director Lam Le Dung immediately cast her for the starring role of the movie.

Her role in Gió Thiên Đường garnered much attention despite not having proper training in acting. In 2005, she signed a two-year contract with Lasta Entertainment, following the contract deal that she would be Lasta's exclusive actress that made sure to make an appearance in 80 episodes per year.

On April 1, 2009, plenty forums and websites published many news regarding her photo leaking, along with many photos capturing Minh Hang in sexy pose. Although the face of the girl was covered, it was easy to detect that was Minh Hang. Shortly after, she made an official statement and admitted it was her, at the same time she denied the accusation of taking nude photo, explaining that she took these photos since she had received 20th birthday gift from her mom instead. Regarding the reason of the leaking, she said that in Christmas of 2008, there was a robbery at Thiên Thi Entertainment of which her personal laptop was stolen (with two cameras). She had also talked about the robbery during an interview previously.

After several days of investigation, the person who posted the photos was discovered, who was teenager born in 1991 and being a member of gamevn.com under the username "MapleKhoa", which was also the first website posting the photo. Answering the question regarding his action, he explained that he had found these photos from foreign forum accusing that was Minh Hang. Carelessly thinking it was just a harmless joke, at the same time receiving support from other members, he decided to post the photo on March 28, 2009, even attaching eye-catching description such as "this is just the beginning, there are more nude photos and 10 minute clip coming soon". He extremely regretted and was not thoughtful enough to realize his joke was that serious. On April 3, 2009, Minh Hang's spokesperson had a talk with the police and involved individuals regarding this incident.

• Một vòng trái đất (2008)
• Cô nàng đáng yêu (2010)
• Giờ em đã biết (2014)
• Yolo - You only live once (2015)
• 2008: got HTV Award prize as "The Best Actress" of "Goi Giac Mo Ve" film
• 2010: got HTV Award prize as "The Best Actress" of "Doi Mat" film
• 2011: got "Singer of Prospect" award of "Lan Song Xanh"
• 2013: was the winner in the third season of Dancing With The Star, with dancer, Atanas Georgiev Malamov
• 2015: was a jurywoman of "Bước nhảy hoàn vũ nhí" - Dancing With The Star for Kid
• 2015: got "Mai Vang" prize as "The Best Actress" of "Vua Di Vua Khoc" film