Maggie
Cheung Man-yuk
Actress
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About...
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Chinese
Name:
Cheung Man Yuk
Birthday:
September 20, 1964
Place
of Birth:
Hong Kong
Chinese
Horoscope:
Dragon
Astrology
Sign:
Virgo
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Maggie
Cheung was born in Hong Kong on September 20, 1964. She has already
appeared in seventy-five films, and has won more awards for her
work than any other Hong Kong actress.
Among
these honors are four Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress, four
Golden Horse Awards (Taiwan's equivalent of the Academy Awards),
the Golden Bauhinia (Hong Kong's equivalent of the Golden Globe),
and awards from the Chicago and Turin Film Festivals.
She lived in Great Britain with her family
from the ages of 8 to 17. When she returned to her hometown, she
took part in the Miss Hong Kong contest, in which she placed second
and was voted Miss Photogenic. She then worked for the television
channel TVB, appearing in several successful series.
The
worldwide triumph of one of her earliest feature films, Jackie Chan's
Police Story (1985), kick-started her film career. During one
year, Maggie starred in a dozen films in addition to working on
television series. She describes this period of her life as very
"enriching" professionally.
When
she met Wong Kar-wai, he offered her the lead role in his feature
directorial debut, As Tears Go By (1988). With the release
of that film, the critical acclaim for her performance expanded
her status in the industry overnight: she became the muse of Hong
Kong "auteur" films. She appeared alongside Ann Hui Oh-wah in the
latter's beautiful and autobiographical Song of the Exile
(1990). For her performance as the legendary Chinese movie star
Ruan Lingyu in Stanely Kwan Kam-pang's Actress (Centre Stage),
Maggie received the Best Actress award at the 1992 Berlin Film Festival
- becoming the first Chinese actress to earn that honor.
Her
other notable films include Tsui Hark's Green Snake (1993);
Peter Chan's Comrades, Almost A Love Story (1996);
and for Wong Kar-wai, Days of Being Wild (1991), Ashes
of Time (1994), and In the Mood for Love.
More
recently, Maggie became well-known in France when she played herself
in Olivier Assay's Irma Vep (1996) and then starred in a
French comedy, Anne Fontaine's Augustin, King of Kung Fu
[Augustin, roi de kung-fu] (1999).
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Related:
AC
Interviews Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (In the Mood for Love)
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