Cecilia Cheung
Chinese actress and singer
Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi (Chinese: 張栢芝; born 24 May 1980) is a Hong Kong actress and singer. Cheung rose to fame for her role in King of Comedy (1999), and won the Best Actress at the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards for her role in Lost in Time (2003). Her other films include Fly Me to Polaris (1999), The Lion Roars (2002), Running on Karma (2003) and The Promise (2005). After her film career declined in the 2010s, she shifted toward Chinese reality television.
Biography
Cheung was born on 24 May 1980 at Man Wah Sun Chuen, Jordan, Hong Kong to Davies Shally, who is of half Chinese and half British descent, and Cheung Yan-yung, a triad member who is also known as Bearded Bravery or Bearded Yung. Her parents divorced when she was nine years old. She was sent to Melbourne to live with her aunt at the age of fourteen and then attended Camberwell Girls Grammar School. She has an elder half-sister, two younger brothers, and a younger half-brother from her father's side.
Career
In 1998, Cheung was cast in a television commercial advertising lemon tea, which caught the attention of Stephen Chow. Cheung made her film debut as a call girl in Chow's King of Comedy (1999), which became the highest grossing local film of the year and shot Cheung to fame.
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