Saom Vansodany ( km, សោម វណ្ណសូដានី, c. 1947 – c. 1977) or Som Van Sok Dany was a famous
Cambodia
Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailand t ...
n actress from the late 1960s until 1975. She was mainly featured and famous for her roles in melodramatic movies such as
Thavory Meas Bong and
Sovannahong. She married fellow actor,
Chea Yuthorn
Chea is a surname in various cultures.
Origins
Chea may be a Cambodian surname ( km, ជា; ). That surname is derived from the Chinese surname Xiè (), specifically Southern Min pronunciations of that surname, e.g. Hokkien Chinese (). Other sp ...
before the communist era. Details of her life are relatively unknown and she is believed to have perished from overwork under the Khmer Rouge regime shortly after giving birth to her son,
Thorn Tharith.
References
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* Gender-Based Violence During the Khmer Rouge Regime
Stories of survivors from the Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979)
Nakagawa Kasumi March 2008 page-26
http://menengage.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Kasumi_GBV_Study_2007.pdf
Cambodian film actresses
20th-century Cambodian actresses
Year of birth missing
People who died in the Cambodian genocide
Deaths in childbirth
Executed Cambodian women
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