Meritorious Artist Mai Châu passed away at 3:10 AM on May 24th due to old age and frail health, at the age of 99. According to information from her family, she breathed her last peacefully and serenely surrounded by her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
Meritorious Artist Mai Châu, whose real name is Mai Thị Châu, was born on January 10, 1927, in Vinh City, Nghe An Province . Her family had a very famous and wealthy business tradition.
When the August Revolution of 1945 broke out, the government urged her family to demolish their house as part of the "scorched earth" policy. This was also the time when she met soldier Vu Ky Lan, who was part of the Southern Advance Army participating in the campaign. He was a refined, intellectual young man, educated in a Western school, the youngest son of a bourgeois family in Yen Ninh Street, Hanoi . They quickly married when Mai Chau was only 19 years old.
After 1954, Vu Ky Lan served as Political Commissar of the Vinh Linh Special Zone, and later as Director of the Military Film Studio.
In December 1945, Mai Châu and her husband joined the southward advance army. In 1946, she served as secretary to General Nguyễn Sơn (the uncle of Vũ Kỳ Lân), who was then Chairman of the Southern Vietnam Resistance Administrative Committee and Commander-in-Chief of Military Region 4.
In 1947, she began her career in theater, becoming one of the first actresses of the Frontline Theater Troupe. She joined the Liberation Army Propaganda Troupe to serve the troops throughout the Southern battlefields fighting against French colonialism.
In 1956, she was assigned to the Film and Drama Troupe, where she participated in dubbing foreign films.
When the Vietnam Film School opened its first acting training course, she and several colleagues participated in the audition and were selected as official actors for the Vietnam Feature Film Studio.
From there, she participated in the filming of "Sharing the Same River" (1959) - the first work of Vietnamese revolutionary cinema.
After this role, she continued to appear in a series of popular films such as "The Construction Site Girl" (1960), "Sister Tu Hau" (1963), and "Taking Another Step" (1964).
In particular, her leading role as Le My in the film "The Struggle Continues" (1966) is an unforgettable mark on Vietnamese cinema. She was awarded a certificate of merit by the Minister of Public Security for her contribution to this film.
Television viewers cannot forget the stingy and scheming Mrs. Nghi Que in "Sister Dau," the cunning Mrs. Pho Doan in "August Star," Ba Kien's wife in "The Village of Vu Dai" in those days, or the Empress Dowager in "The Long Tri Night Festival"...
Meritorious Artist Mai Châu continued acting until she was over 80 years old, with her final film being "Bi, Don't Be Afraid".
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