Artist Le Vi - Le Khanh's younger sister: The beauty turned upside down for a while, leaving her career to follow the painter's husband to France

Le Vi is known as a once-popular female artist of the Vietnamese screen, the beauty of the three sisters Le Van, Le Khanh, and Le Vi always became the focus of public attention at that time. However, Meritorious Artist Le Vi then suddenly got married, gave up his career and moved to France to settle down.

Meritorious Artist Le Mai and People's Artist Tran Tien share three beautiful and talented daughters, Le Van, Le Khanh, and Le Vi. In the 1970s, all three began to enter the Vietnamese entertainment industry. Coming from a family with artistic traditions, from a young ag.e, three sisters Le Van, Le Khanh and Le Vi showed their artistic talent.

The youngest Le Vi was born in 1967, graduated from a dance school. She also followed in the footsteps of her two sisters Le Van - Le Khanh, who entered the film industry early and made a deep impression through a number of films: 17-year-old fairy, Dissolved, Anonymous Eucalyptus Tree, Yellow Light, Two Sides. horizon... With artistic talent and beautiful beauty, all three sisters soon had certain successes in their art and were respected by their colleagues and many generations of actors in later generations. However, up to now, only artist Le Khanh is still acting.

Meritorious Artist Le Vi is the youngest daughter of the family. Because of her passion for dance since childhood, she mainly works on the dance stage. However, in the field of cinema, Le Vi also has certain successes. Le Vi made an impression in the movie 'Anonymous Eucalyptus Tree' by director Nguyen Thanh Van, a role that brought her a Golden Lotus awar.d in 1996.

Born in an artistic family, since childhood, Meritorious Artist Le Vi has been associated with dance and music. Before winning the Golden Lotus awar.d, Levi was mentioned a lot with Fairy Tales for the Ag.e of 17. With this film, Le Vi had a beautiful start in cinema, since then she has become one of the female celebrities. the most famous actor of Vietnamese cinema.

At the time of filming this film, Meritorious Artist Le Vi was only 20 years old, but she portrayed the character very well and became the type of gir.l that many boys loved at that time. After this film, Meritorious Artist Le Vi was only focused on dancing. It was not until 8 years later that she accepted to participate in the film The Unknown Piano, and 11 years later, she acted in the Golden Light.

Successful in acting, Meritorious Artist Le Vi still loves dance and devotes all his love to this art. Until she got married, Le Vi was still devoted to dance. Love came to Le Vi very gently, she married the tenant of her parents' house.

At that time, Mr. Cyril Lapointe - Le Vi's husband went to Hanoi to study painting and work at the Institute of the Ancient Far East and there he met Meritorious Artist Le Vi. He is the "Mr. Tay" who rented the house of Meritorious Artist Le Van's family that Le Van mentioned in his autobiography. While in Vietnam, Cyril Lapointe opened a gallery but the business was not favorable. When Levi was pregnant with their second chil.d, they decided to go to France. He found a stable job working in the real estate industry, built a 250m2 villa in a French tourist town of Amboise, about 200 km from Paris.

Despite being far from home, taking care of children with one hand, Meritorious Artist Le Vi still has a love for dance. Even after giving up her career and not doing any art activities, Le Vi still silently practices dancing... alone in the large campus of the villa, to help remember her job and also to exercise. Despite living in France for more than 15 years, artist Le Vi still holds Vietnamese nationality. She still talks to her children in Vietnamese while her husband speaks French.

In February 2019, for the first time in 13 years, Meritorious Artist Le Vi celebrated Tet in Vietnam. Previously, she did not return to Hanoi during Tet because her children had to go to school. Talking about her French husband, the female artist said: "You and I are not so romantic that we immediately fall in love with each other. At first, I didn't pay attention to him. In my subconscious, I never thought of marrying. If you are a foreigner, you don't even think about going abroad to live. But if you don't meet here, you will meet somewhere else," she said.

Even though they have lived together for 25 years, the couple still only speak in Vietnamese. Only when there are guests at home, out of courtesy she speaks French. Artist Le Vi once said that when she proposed to her, she once rejected her husband because she did not want to go abroad to live, in response, the artist's husband decided to stay in Vietnam with his wife. With such simplicity, she seriously measured her feelings to see if she really loved him.

Le Vi confided that without her two sisters Le Van and Le Khanh, she certainly would not have married far away. Having two sisters to take care of her parents, Le Vi is more comfortable with her decision. "I don't like going abroad but I can't think for myself. I have to let him go back to France to get a job, the children have better living conditions. I don't fight at all. I am decisive, think fast. and did it quickly. My parents didn't object, on the contrary, they were very supportive. My parents always wanted me to go, so I decided quickly," said Le Vi.

Le Vi confided that when she first settled in France, she sometimes felt sad due to the change in living environment, when she was pregnant, her mentality also changed. Having given birth to the second chil.d, but giving birth for the first time in a foreign country, there was a time when Levi briefly thought: 'Or my decision is wrong'.

After giving birth, when he returned from the hospital, he was the only one to take the mother and daughter home. At that time, Le Vi cried because of self-pity and loneliness when there was no loved one by her side. "At that time, I told him: I don't think I can live here. You alone at that time was not enough to fill my emptiness. Only at that time I felt that my decision was wrong," Le said. Vi confided.

When the second bab.y was 11 months old, she decided to send him back to Vietnam. "At that time, I also thought that I was only going to France to give birth, and I would return to Vietnam to live and work. He was so psychological and wonderful that he let me go home, let me think and choose. Whatever I decide, he will listen. When he was offered a role in a movie, he immediately agreed without thinking. Because he loves me, he wants to make me happy. That kind of kindness. So I decided to go back to him. And since returning to France from 2006 to now, I have no regrets and no regrets. My life has officially turned the page since then, "said the female artist.

Le Vi decided to stop her career at the ag.e of 36 to move to France to settle down (2003) and then since 2006, at the ag.e of U50, the female artist wholeheartedly lived a normal life with her husband and children in France. "Many people think sorry for me, but I don't. I think in life, 'too greed.y can't be'. pull," said Levi.