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Anh Do (born 1977 in Vietnam) is a Vietnamese Australian author, actor and stand-up 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. 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.
Do and his family fled to Australia as refugees in 1980. In his 2010 autobiography,The Happiest Refugee, Do tells of how his family... MORE
Anh Do (born 1977 in Vietnam) is a Vietnamese Australian author, actor and stand-up 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. 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.
Do and his family fled to Australia as refugees in 1980. 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 and packed with 40 Vietnamese refugees fleeing across the Indian Ocean. “We were crammed in like sardines,” he said. 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.
When Do was 14 he started a small business breeding tropical LESS
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