Recently, actress Dam Tung Van attracted attention thanks to the Chinese movie "My Mountains and Sea".
On screen, she has shed the image of a "sweet girl", portraying the image of a low-class woman who resiliently rises up. But in real life, she still carries the pain of losing her mother due to a traffic accident, and is still single to this day.
Dam Tung Van's life encountered a sudden big shock on New Year's Eve 2018. When her career had just flourished and she was busy filming, her mother in her hometown of Luzhou (Suschuan, China) had a serious accident caused by a drunk driver hitting her.
Dam Tung Van's mother suffered severe head injuries, and after more than 20 days of emergency treatment, she did not survive and passed away on January 23, 2019. This accident not only broke down her home but also became a hard-to-erase wound in the actress's heart.
What makes many people feel even more cold is that the driver's family did not apologize at all, his mother even said to Dam Tung Van: "You only lost your mother, and my child has to celebrate Tet in prison". The lawsuit lasted 1 year and 8 months, until September 2020, the driver who caused the accident was sentenced to 6 years in prison and compensated 920,000 yuan.
However, Dam Tung Van has donated all of this money, just hoping to reclaim justice, and has never taken advantage of the incident to attract attention.
Her mother has been her support since childhood. Born into an ordinary worker family in Luzhou, Dam Tung Van entered the acting profession at the age of 15; in the early years of being an extra, practicing dancing hard was all thanks to her mother's thrift to support her.
After her mother passed away, she temporarily stopped all work, sinking into pain. Later, she shared in an program that she missed her mother every day, even hoping in the next life to change her role to be a mother to take care of her. She also composed the song "I'm Here" to send her longing.
Currently, at the age of 36, Dam Tung Van's career has made a new breakthrough. The movie "My Mountains and Sea" starring her achieved a rating exceeding 2% when broadcast on CCTV-8.
In the movie, Dam Tung Van plays Phuong Uyen Chi - from an abandoned child in the mountains of Guizhou to the founder of a listed company.
To suit the role, she lost weight to about 40kg, dyed dark skin and did not wear makeup; using a restrained, sophisticated acting style to break the audience's prejudice that she is a "sweet girl", completing her transformation into a powerful female lead.
For nearly 20 years of operation, Dam Tung Van has always been humble, hardworking, without scandals, relying on works to stand firm in the profession. Even Chung Han Luong praised: "She is petite but possesses extraordinary acting power".
While her career is stable, Dam Tung Van's love life is always empty. There were rumors that she secretly married a director of Wanda Group, but the office immediately denied it.
In fact, her mother's death greatly affected Dam Tung Van's love views. She once admitted that she was "shy so she didn't have any love". But behind that was a feeling of insecurity because of loss and human experience.
In recent years, Dam Tung Van has used her work to heal herself and calm herself through roles: from Canh Canh in "The Best of Us", to Ly Tiem Tiem in "In the Name of Family", then Phuong Uyen Chi now... She proves that actors can break boundaries, age is not a barrier.
