receiving a bouquet of flowers from US Senator
Mike Mansfield, 1969. Buppha Devi finished her high school education at Lycée Preah Norodom in Phnom Penh. As a young princess, her grandmother, Queen
Sisowath Kossamak, chose her to become a dancer early in her life. At the age of 15, she became the premier dancer of the
Royal Ballet of Cambodia. At the age of 18, she was granted the title of
prima ballerina. She then toured the world as the principal dancer of the Royal Ballet with Queen Kossamak, performing in public. In the past the ballet had been performed only before royalty to commemorate their dynastic ancestors and to honour the gods. For her dancing ability, her father Norodom Sihanouk cast her in his first feature-length film
Apsara in 1966. Buppha Devi served as Deputy Minister of Culture and Fine Arts from 1991–1993, advisor to the Royal Government in charge of Culture and Fine Arts from 1993–1998, Vice President of the
Cambodian Red Cross from 1993–1997, President of the Cambodian-Chinese Association in the year 2000 and the Minister of Culture and Fine Arts from 1998–2004. ==Personal life==