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Thanh Kim Hue

Thanh Kim Huệ (1955-    ) is a famous actress of Southern Vietnamese folk opera known as "cải lương".

Born as Bùi Thị Huệ on November 14, 1955 in Saigon, South Vietnam, she began performing professionally in Southern Vietnamese folk opera theater at a very early age.  At 14, Thanh Kim Huệ met her future husband, fellow Southern Vietnamese folk opera actor Thanh Điền who is 8 years her senior, while performing for the Hoa Phượng Folk Opera Theater Troupe.  She along with Thanh Điền would join the Kim Chung 2 Folk Opera Theater Troupe.  Prior to 1975, Thanh Kim Huệ had already established herself as one of the brightest, young talents of the Southern Vietnamese folk opera theater starring in many successful "cải lương" plays including Chuyện Tình Lan và Điệp with Chí Tâm, Đời Cô Hạnh with Minh Vương, Mỹ Châu, Phượng Liên and Thanh Tuấn and Đường Gươm Nguyên Bá with Minh Vương, Thanh Tuấn, Chí Tâm, Thanh Sang and Hồng Nga.



Married to Thanh Điền since 1975, the couple are parents to two grown children, a son named Nguyễn Đăng Quang (b. 1977) and a daughter named Nguyễn Đức Hồng Loan (b. 1986).  Both she and her husband have been able to maintain successful, uninterrupted careers as performers of Southern Vietnamese folk opera after the Fall of Saigon.  The couple currently live in Ho Chi Minh City where they own and operate a professional photography studio located on the first floor of their house.
  

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