Anh Thư

Nguyễn Thị Anh Thư (born April 26, 1982) is a Vietnamese actress and Supermodel. She is known in Vietnam for her role as Thủy in Long Legged Girls in 2004, and lead roles in the television series Tropical Snow (2006), Hoa thiên điểu (2008).

1999 – 2001: Early career
In March 2000, while still in grade 12, in response to the elegant student contest called Cute Purple Ink Drop organized by the City Youth Union and the Youth Cultural House, the school union sent Anh Thu. and a male student attended right after she won the runner-up award at Nguyen Hien High School 1999. As a result, Anh Thu won the 2nd runner-up position, or "The third cutest purple ink drop", and the Miss Hazeline award of the house. sponsor, become the representative face of Hazeline. Soon after, she was invited to join the School Flower model group. At first, Anh Thu was forbidden by her family, but over time they accepted her to work at the club.

Miss National Tien Phong Newspaper 2000 (predecessor of Miss Vietnam) was the first beauty pageant she tried. Overcoming 1,000 contestants in the final round of the southern region (from Thua Thien Hue province onwards), Anh Thu registered her name in the final night of the contest, and ended up in the Top 22 contestants participating in the round. final. A year later, she participated in the Miss Photo Model 2001 contest organized by the Women's World newspaper. Although always the leading contestant in votes by audiences across the country, Anh Thu only reached the Top 10, she received the two most important awards of the contest: "Most Popular Beauty" award. voted by readers nationwide and the sponsor's Miss Civic White and is an advertising ambassador for the brand, and also becomes a representative model of the Vera brand.

Anh Thu first branched out into acting when director Ho Ngoc Xum invited him to star in his drama "The Wind and Fog of the Border", which received a nomination in the Golden Kite category for television feature films in 2002.

2002–2013: Golden period of career
At the end of 2002, in the context of modeling work being still new and prejudiced, it was not recognized as a profession by the Ministry of Culture and was only considered as an extra in major musical shows for the US. actors and singers, such as Vietnam Charming, Hue Festival, Anh Thu became the first Vietnamese female model and the second model in history to appear in a national-level television TVC in a major way. legitimacy when chosen as the main advertising model for Ajinomoto, appearing in the TVC Her Wedding Day (2002-2003), which was the last video in the brand's marketing campaign in the first half of the 2000s, immediately following the parts Both. Home Reunion (1999), Baby's First Cooking (2000) and Dad's Birthday (2001-2002). Previously, the first model recorded to appear in a nationally televised promotional video was former male model Tran Thanh Long, Anh Thu's husband, who co-starred with model Ngo Thanh Van for TVCF in the campaign to introduce the line. Sirius was launched in the Vietnamese market in 1999 under the Yamaha brand, but at that time, Thanh Van worked as a singer and had not yet worked as a model. By 2003, Anh Thu continued to participate in advertising campaigns and TVCs of Acecook and Enchanteur. Her influence along with other big names in the fashion industry such as designers Minh Hanh, Nguyen Cong Tri, models Truong Ngoc Anh, Vu Cam Nhung, has created conditions for mainstream catwalks dedicated to models. were born, such as Vietnam Fashion Week, Fashion and Life, Fashion and Passion, Dep Fashion Show,...

After 3 years of successful operation and making her mark as a pioneering commercial model in the modeling industry, along with the formation of mainstream fashion catwalks, Anh Thu began to focus on developing her career. High fashion, she appeared more and more on major domestic catwalks, and reached her peak when she took on the main role in the movie Long-Legged Girls. On November 7, 2004, Long-Legged Girls won the Silver Lotus Award at the 14th Vietnam Film Festival, also the first time a film from a private company participated in the Vietnam Film Festival and won an award. A huge commercial success, the film became a milestone that made Anh Thu's name shine, recognized as the most successful and highest-paid model of the 2000s. She appeared frequently. in many famous major magazine publications such as Điện ảnh Kịch trường, Tiếp thị và Gia đình, Mỹ thuật, Đẹp, Thế giới Phụ nữ, Thế giới Thanh nữ, Thế giới Thể thao và Đàn ông...

On January 29, 2005, Anh Thu excellently won the Film and Television Actress of the Year award at the 2004 Mai Vang Awards, becoming the first Vietnamese female model in history to be honored at a film award. At the national level, her success strengthened and created a great influence on the film modeling movement later on, followed by faces such as Bang Lang, Ngo Thanh Van, Truong Ngoc Anh, Thanh Hang. Two days later, within the framework of the 2004 Vietnam Model Awards, she received two awards for Best Model and Most Popular Model voted by fashion enthusiasts and national audiences, bringing home gave himself a hat-trick of awards with the fastest award record, just 3 days, until it was broken by female singer My Tam with 3 consecutive music awards at the 2011 Green Wave Awards, although However, as a model and actress in particular, she is still the only person to hold this record until now.

During the golden period of her career, Anh Thu's image was covered not only in newspapers, magazines, and fashion catwalks but also on billboards, advertising campaigns, and major TVCs at that time. As a pioneer, the era of exclusive advertising between models and brands flourished in Vietnam. She is often considered one of the early advertising model icons. Anh Thu acts as a brand ambassador for all three famous cosmetic and care companies belonging to the multinational Unilever system: Pond's, Lux, Sunsilk, participating in the advertising campaign to promote trade across the East. Lux's South Asia with Thai supermodel Marsha Vadhanapanich, who is also the face of Pepsi, Anlene, Yamaha,... Her family's modeling agency, Professional Look, is also the agency with the largest number of exclusive models in the country, leading in the number of exclusive contracts at that time.

After Long-Legged Girls, Anh Thu accepted the invitation to star alongside actor Binh Minh in a short film called The Other Side by veteran male director Le Hoang Hoa. The completed film is considered a premise. for his favorite project, The Ghost of the Hua Family Returns, a version following the success of the famous work The Ghost of the Hua Family many decades ago. However, he passed away while the project was still in its infancy.

In early 2006, the Golden Rose Award was held to honor the achievements of young women in five fields of culture and art including literature, cinema, theater, music and fashion. According to the results announced on March 19, Anh Thu won the Best Model fashion category. In the same year, she starred in two works: the movie Truong Ba's Soul, butcher's skin by Nguyen Quang Dung and the TV series Tropical Snow by Vu Ngoc Dang. Rooted in the muddy land of stagnant water and exploited according to the trend of idol films with the main inspiration being fairy tales of love in everyday life, Tropical Snow has attracted many audiences from young to old and has become one of the phenomena that caused fever on the small screen in 2006, bringing M&T Pictures a Silver Kite in the series category organized by the Vietnam Cinema Association for the 5th time, this is also the first time a TV series Pictures produced by private enterprises entered the national film association's achievements list, and also brought Anh Thu two nominations in the category of Movie - Television Actress of the Year at the 2006 Golden Apricot Awards. and the Best Actress category - HTV Awards 2006 Television Award. Having been closely associated with film director Rat through two hit films recognized by the academy, Anh Thu is often called the first Muse. by Vu Ngoc Dang.

In 2007, Anh Thu returned to the big screen with the classic work Muoi: Legend of the Portrait combined with Binh Minh, Hong Anh. This is the first horror movie in Vietnam after 1975, and was the first shot to open the horror film movement in Vietnam later. In the film, she plays the female ghost Muoi, her haunting appearance makes her known as one of the most typical horror ghosts in Vietnamese cinema at one time. In 2008, she starred in Bird of Paradise after a period of absence from the small screen, the film won the 7th Silver Kite Award.

In 2012, Anh Thu received an invitation to participate in the Dancing with the Stars competition - a reality TV show jointly produced by Vietnam Television and Cat Tien Sa company and achieved the final Bronze Award.

2021 - present: Return to the catwalk
In 2021, Anh Thu returned to the big screen with the movie Repentance after 3 years since her last appearance in Brilliant May. After that, she appeared as the vedette of the revival collection within the framework of Vietnam Fashion Week. In 2022, she officially announced her return to modeling after 5 years of absence from the catwalk and 10 years of inactivity as an advertising model. At the end of 2022, supermodel Anh Thu was confirmed to participate in the TV show The Face Vietnam season 4 as a coach, and the program will not air until June 2023.