Little known facts about Hoai Thu - The youngest Cheo actress to be awarded the title of People's Artist

According to Decision 1431/QD-CTN signed byPresident Vo Van Thuong on November 28, 42 individuals were awarded the title of People's Artist (NSND).

This is the latest list of conferring the title of People's Artist for the second time in 2023. In this list, there is Meritorious Artist Hoai Thu along with other familiar and famous artists such as: Meritorious Artist Xuan Bac, Meritorious Artist Thanh Lam, Meritorious Artist Tan Minh... Hoai Thu is also the youngest cheo actor among the artists conferred the title of People's Artist for the 10th time.

Meritorious Artist Hoai Thu was awarded the title of People's Artist in the 10th awarding ceremony (Photo: Hanoi Cheo Theater).

Hoai Thu (born 1984) is an actress at Thai Binh Cheo Theater, one of the "four great beauties" with golden voices of Thai Binh Cheo along with Thanh Tram, Van Quyen, and An Chinh.

Possessing a beautiful appearance and sweet voice, at the age of 15, Hoai Thu joined the Thai Binh Cheo Troupe, then studied in the elementary Cheo class in 1999-2000.

About a year later, seeing that Hoai Thu sang well and acted well, the theater assigned her the role of Thi Mau in the play Quan Am Thi Kinh , participating in the National Professional Cheo Theater Festival in Quang Ninh. The festival had many famous names in the Cheo village such as Van Chuong, Ngoc Anh, Minh Phuong...

As a result, Hoai Thu won 4 awards: Gold Medal; Excellent Actress; The Stage Artists Association awarded the Young Talent Award; Actress with the most outstanding achievements in the 2001 festival.

After the success of the Quang Ninh festival, 17-year-old Hoai Thu was invited to participate in VTV's TV show For Fans.

Working at Thai Binh Cheo Troupe until 2005, in 2006, Hoai Thu transferred to work at Tuoi Tre Theater as an actress in the Physical Drama Troupe of People's Artist Lan Huong.

In 2013, when she had just given birth to her son for 5 months, and was still on leave from the Youth Theater, Hoai Thu was asked by Meritorious Artist Minh Vuong to play the role of Trung Trac in the play Victory of Me Linh for People's Artist Trinh Thuy Mui (at that time, Director of the Hanoi Cheo Theater) to bring to the festival.

Although she had been away from the Cheo stage for 10 years and was busy taking care of her young child, when People's Artist Trinh Thuy Mui gave her the script and invited her to see the play, Hoai Thu accepted because her "career passion" was boiling inside her. In the end, the play that year was a great success.

People's Artist Trinh Thuy Mui - President of the Vietnam Stage Artists Association once shared that Hoai Thu gave up 10 years of performing Cheo to perform plays, but when she returned to Cheo, she won several gold medals at every stage festival.

"Watching Thu perform, many Cheo artists shed tears, even a veteran Cheo artist like People's Artist Quoc Anh cried heartily...", People's Artist Trinh Thuy Mui said.

Hoai Thu is the youngest Cheo actor among the artists awarded the title of People's Artist for the 10th time (Photo: Hanoi Cheo Theater).

Since then, all the plays that Hoai Thu has participated in have been the main roles and if she competed, she has won Gold medals. Up to now, Hoai Thu has won 1 international silver cup, 6 gold medals; 1 silver medal, 3 Best Actress awards.

Hoai Thu's outstanding roles include My Duyen in White Bird in the Night , Mrs. Truong in Love Story on Nam Xang Wharf , Dang Thuy Hanh in The Dang Concubine , Kieu Loan in Kieu Loan , Mrs. Ba in Vu Dai Village Kite, Thanh Hoa in the play Life Needs Protection ...

In 2015, Hoai Thu was awarded the title of Meritorious Artist at the age of 31, becoming the youngest artist to be awarded this title.

In addition to acting, Meritorious Artist Hoai Thu has also achieved success as a director. At the 2022 National Cheo Festival, the play Linh Tu Quoc Mau , which she directed, won the Best Play award; and Hoai Thu won the Best Director award.

Roles of Meritorious Artist Hoai Thu on the Cheo stage:

Thi Mau - Quan Am Thi Kinh

Trung Trac - Princess of Me Linh

My Duyen - White Bird in the Night

Mrs. Truong - Love story on Nam Xang wharf

Dang Thuy Hanh - The concubine of the Dang family

Kieu Loan - Kieu Loan

Aunt Ba - Kite of Vu Dai village

Bud - What heaven gives, earth gives

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