A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Mya
Lien Mya Nguyen was born in Houston Texas father Vietnamese - French (originally from Long An Binh Chanh Vietnam) mother Vietnamese - Chinese (Originally from Soc Trang Vietnam) met in war 1978 in the USA and got married. Lien Mya had 3 siblings one her second sister passed away in 1995 leaving her oldest sister and younger brother. Her family moved to Vietnam in 1992 and she moved back to the USA in 2000. She moved around a lot from Texas to Florida and California. Currently living in Florida. When she was age 5, in 1st grade, teachers would ask their students what they want to be when they grew up. All the kids have the answers of nurse, police man the originals and when it was her turn she said she wanted to be an actress. All the kids asked what was an actress the teacher was shocked. Ever since then, she never gave up on believing that one day she can be an actress and here she is. She started modeling when she was age 15 and within the first month she had a 1 year contract as a spokesmodel for Japanese company Kao for Sifone. Then more and more commercials came and she slowly got into the show biz.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.