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.

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. 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.

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.