Meritorious Artist Phi Dieu - "National grandmother" of Vietnamese screens: U90 still drives to perform, does not care about the salary

Referring to the meritorious artist Phi Dieu, the audience will immediately think of a working mother, a gentle grandmother in plays, dramas, movies or MVs. Wholeheartedly for her acting career, the "national grandmother" once made the audience "surprised" by riding a motorbike to perform alone at the age of U90, not caring about the sand, even performing for free for students. pellets.

Meritorious Artist Phi Dieu: A glorious radio career that few people know about

Meritorious Artist Phi Dieu, whose real name is Nguyen Thi Phi, is an actress who was conferred the title of Meritorious Artist by the state in 1997. She is the wife of the late musician Phan Nhan, the author of many immortal songs such as: Love song. Country, Remembering Pac Bo, Victor Hara's Guitar, Far From Hanoi, Uncle Ho's Trees, Little Frog...

Meritorious Artist Phi Dieu was born into a family with patriotic and revolutionary traditions. In 1954, she went to the North to gather and became a member of the Voice of Vietnam Radio. After she moved to the South to live, she worked at Ho Chi Minh City Radio. Since 2000, she has been acting.

With a gentle face and austere features, she was assigned by the director to play the roles of a working woman, or a mother who is always as in the movies: Thuy Khuc, White Blouse, Love Flower Basket...

Perhaps thanks to the gentle face, sincere and honest voice of the artist Phi Dieu, she has been able to receive many roles of a gentle, hard-working, loving mother. This helps her shape a familiar character image in the hearts of the audience. However, she also devoted a lot of effort to the discovery and creation of new characters, in order to avoid boring stereotypes.

Talking about such roles, Meritorious Artist Phi Dieu shared: "If the audience watches closely, you will see that in each role, whether it's the same mother or later playing the grandmother, I have different ways of expressing it. In art, I don't have any acting know-how, only experience gained through each project, after observing people perform.

I know I'm not too good, not too outstanding, but I can do many things from singing, dancing, acting, hosting programs thanks to being well trained when I was young, active in the army or later - time working in the Voice of Vietnam".

Thanks to the diligence of always learning at any age, Meritorious Artist Phi Dieu is still expensive to show. She was invited by many artists who wanted to film MV about her family. Since then, the image of the "kindest mother" on the screen has turned to the image of an emotional grandmother and mother in the MVs of many singers.

Meritorious Artist Phi Dieu: U90 still rides a motorbike to receive the show, doesn't mind his descendants

Meritorious artist Phi Dieu at the age of U90 before the epidemic still worked hard to receive the show even though her life was not difficult. For a veteran female artist, she considers this to be both a job with additional income, and an opportunity to meet colleagues to receive more joy. To move to the movie, she uses a motorbike for convenience.

"I do many roles of grandmother, grandmother, great-grandmother out of love, secondly from art. I don't need to, I want to pay a lot. There are things that I voluntarily do without pay for my children, the I don't even take a penny at school. I don't even eat with them so I don't miss out on food, I don't ride in their car," she said.

Once, Meritorious Artist Phi Dieu was run over by a car, but still silently went home to change, went to the hospital to bandage. When the doctor forced her to stay in the hospital for 21 days, she informed her children and grandchildren. The situation was so "alarming" that the artist's son had to hide his motorbike to prevent his mother from performing alone, but it still could not stop her determination.

Understanding the hearts of his children and grandchildren, Meritorious Artist Phi Dieu expressed: "There is nothing to worry about, I know my health condition. I am still very awake, I also like freedom. If we can get to your mother's age, we will think the same way. Life and death have a number, while we are still alive, what can we do for society, for the class? I'm young and the path I've chosen, I have no regrets, no fear of anything."

Sharing about traveling by motorbike to work, female artist Phi Dieu U90 said: "I still run that motorbike every day because it's small and fits me. I've been riding a motorbike for decades now, This is the second one. Many people say that I'm old and shouldn't ride a motorbike, but I still want to go by myself to control my agility and agility. Star.

I still say, life and death have numbers, if anything, it's God's will. At this age, I still want to do everything on my own to be smart, alert, agile and keep healthy for myself, just work hard and get used to it."

Elite artist Phi Dieu also revealed that her children and grandchildren also want to take the shuttle, but she doesn't like to be bothered, depends on others, so she refuses, choosing to ride a motorbike to be more proactive. She proudly said: "Riding by myself helps me remember the way, not getting lost, wherever I go, I remember everything. Now I know the road quite well, if you don't know the road, ask."

Except for cases of having to travel too far or being inconvenient, the female artist U90 will use other means. Just like that for many years, the female artist still takes care of herself, ensures her time and work, never lets others wait for her.

After many years of devoting herself to art, now, at the age of U90, Meritorious Artist Phi Dieu lives in a house located in the center of Saigon. Although the house is quite superficial, the interior is spacious, the artist still has a very simple life. She still wants to dedicate herself to the arts and be recognized by the audience.

The torment clinging after the departure of the late musician Phan Nhan

With their first love at the age of 22, Meritorious Artist Phi Dieu and musician Phan Nhan have spent 63 years of their lives together with emotions, associated with the ups and downs of society. Her husband has been dead for 7 years, but when she recalls, Meritorious Artist Phi Dieu still flutters when she talks about wartime love and youth busy with art.

"The only thing that I regret until now is that that night I saw that his condition was getting worse, I told him to wait until morning so I could run over to tell my brother-in-law. As soon as I got to his door, I My son at home called to tell me that my father had passed away.I couldn't hold back my tears. I just drove home and blamed "you play weird, I told you to wait for me for a bit, but it didn't work?" - Meritorious Artist Phi Dieu confided.

However, Meritorious Artist Phi Dieu also expressed satisfaction with her current life, family reunion, happy family and many good things so that when she closes her eyes, she will not regret anything. "Now, I often go to the temple, read scriptures to my husband. Whenever it's my turn, I also tell my children and grandchildren: "When mom is lying down, take them to be cremated, not buried. After burning, then go to the temple to hug more boxes of father and mother and take it away, so we don't have to go to the temple. If she still has her mother, she can do anything for her father, it is our turn to do it quickly.