Anh Do

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Anh Do
Anh Do walking the red carpet.jpg
Anh Do with wife Suzanne, walking the red carpet at the premiere of Footy Legends
Born 2 June 1977
Vietnam
Occupation Actor,
stand-up comedian
Spouse(s) Suzanne
Children 3 children

Anh Do (born 2 June 1977) is a Vietnamese-born Australian author, actor and comedian. He has appeared on many Australian TV shows such as Thank God You're Here and Good News Week, and was runner-up on Dancing With The Stars in 2007. He studied a combined Business Law degree at the University of Technology, Sydney.[1] He is brother of film director Khoa Do and has acted in several of Khoa's films, including Footy Legends, which he co-wrote and produced. In 2012, his TV show Anh Does Vietnam began airing.

Do and his family fled to Australia as refugees in 1980.[2] In his 2010 autobiography,The Happiest Refugee, Do tells of how his family survived five days in a leaky fishing boat nine and a half metres long and two metres wide. During the trip his family and the rest of the passengers were attacked by two different bands of pirates. The first group stole one out of the two engines and the second group of pirates stole the second engine, which had been broken but repaired by Anh's father using a piece of rubber from a thong. It was reported that as the second band of pirates left one of them threw a gallon of water onboard which kept all but one of the refugees alive until they were finally rescued by a German Merchant ship. His [3]:9 and packed with 40 Vietnamese refugees fleeing across the Indian Ocean. “We were crammed in like sardines,” he said.[4] The Happiest Refugee has won many awards, including the 2011 Australian Book of the Year, Biography of the Year and Newcomer of the Year, as well as the Indie Book of the Year Award 2011, Non-fiction Indie Book of the Year 2011, and it was shortlisted for the 2011 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Community Relations Commission Award.[5] His publisher, has acknowledged that the book was however first ghostwritten by Michael Visontay, and subsequently Do used this as the basis for his work. [6]

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Early career [edit]

Do attended St Aloysius' College in Milsons Point for his secondary education. When he was 14 he started a small business breeding tropical fish. While studying his first year of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney, he owned a stall which sold American-Indian artifacts, which he later expanded to 4 franchised stores. A few months before finishing his combined Business Law degree, law firms offered him jobs which required 60 hours of work a week. He opted to take up stand-up comedy instead.[2]

His author's profile and an extract from his book, The Happiest Refugee,[7] were used in the 2011 School Certificate Examinations in New South Wales, leading to an extensive number of Facebook groups and fan pages being made about him and his achievements. Due to the question regarding writing a letter to the principal asking him to be a guest speaker at the end of year assembly, he has been offered the chance to do this in many schools around the state.

Acting filmography [edit]

Filmography (as himself) [edit]

Footnotes [edit]

  1. ^ Celebrity Speakers Anh Do
  2. ^ a b "Profile: Anh Do". The Age (Melbourne). 2 February 2011. 
  3. ^ Do, Anh (2010). The Happiest Refugee. Allen&Unwin. ISBN 978-1-74237-238-9. 
  4. ^ http://www.stevedow.com.au/Default.aspx?id=403
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ [2]
  7. ^ Do, Anh (2011), The Happiest Refugee, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 978-1-74237-930-2 

External links [edit]

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