By Dang Khoa March 18, 2021 | 01:00 pm GMT+7 vnexpress
The Asian World Film Festival in the U.S. has conferred the lifetime achievement award on Vietnamese-American actress Kieu Chinh for her contributions to the movie industry.
The 84-year-old received the Snow Leopard Lifetime Achievement Award, the festival’s highest accolade, at an event in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
The AWFF wrote in a Facebook post that the actress “is being honored for her distinguished film career and humanitarian and philanthropic achievements.”
She wrote in turn, “I’m very honored and humbled to receive this award.”
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| Kieu Chinh (R) with her Snow Leopard Lifetime Achievement Award and Georges Jojo Chamchoum, executive director of AWFF at the 6th Annual Asian World Film Festival in Los Angeles, the U.S. Photo courtesy of Kieu Chinh’s Facebook. |
After migrating with her family to southern Vietnam in 1954, the Hanoi-born Chinh rose to fame, starring in many hit movies.
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