Linna Huynh

Linna Huynh (Chinese: 黃碧蓮, born 1 January 1991) is a Canadian television presenter, actress and model currently based in Hong Kong under contract with TVB.

Early life

Huynh was born and raised in Vancouver where she attended Fraser Heights Secondary School (Source: https://www.facebook.com/linna.huynh.5) university at University of British Columbia. She is the second of four sisters. She started to model while attending high school, gaining experience with bridal, fashion and makeup modelling before entering a local modelling competition in 2010.

Career

Modelling

She first participated in the Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant in 2012, securing the titles of Miss Most Photogenic and Miss Best Complexion. She is the first contestant in the history of the pageant to not secure a winning title after securing the aforementioned awards. She then participated in the Miss Hong Kong Pageant in 2014, placing in the Top Five, and being the runner-up for Miss Photogenic.[1] She later signed with TVB.

Acting

Huynh was the lead female actress in the Vancouver-based, Asian-styled action movie Beyond Redemption.[2]

She is currently a TV host at TVB, hosting Think Big (天地), a children's game show,[3] as well as lifestyle program Dolce Vita, in addition to 1周八爪娛. Having limited skills speaking Cantonese, or reading and writing Chinese, Huynh has been assigned to working in variety programmes to further improve her Chinese before she is able to be considered for dramas.

Linna was in the 28th Artiste Training Class hosted by TVB.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Miss Hong Kong 2014 Veronica Shiu
  2. ↑ Beyond Redemption on IMDb
  3. ↑ http://mytv.tvb.com/tc/cat_kids/ed_tvbkids/kidsthinkbig/260639
  4. ↑ http://artiste.tvb.com/main/artistedetail/huynhlinna
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