Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen

Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen

In this Vietnamese name, the family name is Nguyen. According to Vietnamese custom, this person should properly be referred to by the given name Kỳ Duyên.

Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên ( listen; born June 30, 1969) is a Vietnamese-American personality and co-host of Thuy Nga's Paris By Night shows, and is also a law school graduate.

Biography

Kỳ Duyên was born in Saigon Capital, South Vietnam, and was just shy of 3 years old during the "Fall of Saigon" in 1975 when her family left for the United States. Her parents were anti-communist and worried that they would be persecuted by the North Vietnamese authorities after it succeeded in taking over South Vietnam. Her father, Nguyen Cao Ky, was a former South Vietnamese prime minister, vice president, and air-force general and her mother Madame Nguyen Cao Ky. He had since made peace with the new regime in his former homeland.

Kỳ Duyên currently works as a Master of Ceremonies for Thuy Nga's Paris By Night videos and lives in Orange County, California. She was married to Trịnh Hội, a Vietnamese-Australian human rights lawyer/refugee advocate and a concert promoter. [1]

Dec. 2, 2008, Kỳ Duyên and her second husband, Trịnh Hội, announced their plan to end the marriage.

Education

Kỳ Duyên grew up in Fairfax, Virginia, before the family moved to Huntington Beach, California where she graduated from Marina High School.

She completed her undergraduate education at California State Polytechnic University before receiving her law degree from Western State University College of Law.^[1]

References

1. ^ California State Bar Membership Records -- Duyen Ky Cao Nguyen

External links

• Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên interviewed^{[dead link]} from the Los Angeles Times
• Interview with Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên

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Name	Nguyen, Cao Ky Duyen
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Short description	Vietnamese singer
Date of birth	June 30, 1972
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