Ampor Tevi |
Ampor Tevi (Khmer: អម្ពរ ទេវី; born 1970) is a Cambodian
actress active in 1990s. Within the span of her career she has starred
in numerous films, from movies to musical skits. Her career started in
1988 with her paired actor Sam Vityea. After Sam Vityea died that year,
Ampor Tevi was often paired with fellow actor, also famous at the time, Tep Rindaro.
Biography
Ampor Tevi was born in 1970. She is the eldest child in the family
among other 5 siblings. Her debut film was released in 1988 co-starring
Sam Vityea, her ex co-star. She finished the 12th Grade at Bak Touk
College of Fine Arts in 1989. She then got married to Pich Pirun who was
also an actor from her generation in October,1992.
Career
After marriage, Tevi continued to act for more movies mostly with her co-star Tep Rindaro.
Remarkably, her popularity went from just a regular movie star to a
super movie star in just a few years. Every new movie released locally
and overseas Ampor Tevi was a part of, and she was always the main
character of the movie or music video. Everybody began to know her
mostly as a playful and pretty young girl.
Cambodia was not completely peaceful in early 1990s. Wars were still
going on in some places in the country. Over all Cambodian population
were still very poor and needy, so Khmer entertainment productions and
performing arts were not in Cambodians' minds at the time. Khmer movies
were mostly sold overseas to few Cambodians who fled the country in
early 1980s. Khmer cinematography and film productions were very
primitive. So, Khmer movie productions were not sophisticated enough to
compete with foreign movies from Thailand, India and Hong Kong. Local
Cambodians would watch Thai, Indian or Chinese movies rather than Khmer
movies. Only Cambodians who lived overseas watched Khmer movies or music
videos because they missed Cambodia and that was the only way they
could see Cambodia. That had adversely affected local Khmer film
productions dramatically that most of Khmer movie production companies
had to go out of business or stopped producing movies.By 1994, due to
the governments demand, the fairly new Cambodian film industry came once
again to an end leaving most actors like Ampor Tevi herself starring in
karaoke videos up until the early 2000s. Despite of her popularity,
Ampor Tevi had very few opportunities to act and began to lose her
concertration. In 2001 Fai Sam Ang, the predominant movie director
decided to create the well-known Khmer folktale story: Kone Puos Keng
Kong(The Snake King's Child). Ampor Tevi was selected to act as Neang Ni, the main female character of the movie together with Tep Rindaro,
Pich Chan Boremei and Winai Kraibutr a Thai leading actor who was also
part of the movie. After the filming of Kone Puos Keng Kong, Ampor Tevi
decided to leave Cambodia for USA, seeking for a better opportunity. Kon
Pous King Kang was the last movie of her career.
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