Background
Basuki, who was born in Berlin on 9 January 1988, is of mixed Indonesian-Vietnamese ancestry. However, her mother pressured Basuki into becoming a model.
Basuki, who was born in Berlin on 9 January 1988, is of mixed Indonesian-Vietnamese ancestry. However, her mother pressured Basuki into becoming a model.
As a teenager, she intended to be a doctor. The 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) tall Basuki, who weighed 49 kilograms (108 lb), enrolled at the OQ Modeling School in 2005. Her first modelling job was at a bridal pageant showing the works of Bijan Wanaatmadja.
This was followed by numerous spots marketing products like Coca-Cola and Vaseline.
According to the weekly entertainment magazine Tabloid Nova, Basuki"s look was compared to that of Japanese porn star Maria Ozawa. As the modelling work kept her too busy to study medicine, Basuki began studying economics.
In 2008 Basuki was cast in her first role, Gara-Gara Bola (Because of Football), after the producer Nia Dinata saw Basuki"s face in a magazine. Basuki accepted the offer because of di Nata"s standing in the Indonesian community.
She played the role of a bookie"s wife after receiving a month of coaching.
Her previous experience had only been with commercials and music videos. Gara-Gara Bola garnered her two awards at the 2009 Indonesian Movie Awards. Basuki married the businessman Leo Sanjaya in 2011.
In early 2012 she played a beautiful journalist in Agus Kuntz" film Republik Twitter (The Twitter Republic).
Basuki"s fourth film, Di Timur Matahari (East of the Sun), debuted on 12 June 2012. Foreign the shooting, she spent over a month in the mountainous inner regions of the island, bathing only weekly.