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Tang Wei (Chinese: 湯唯; pinyin: Tang Wéi), born 7 October 1979, is a Chinese actress. She was selected from more than 10,000 actresses to appear in Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution (Winner of the 2007 Golden Lion award) as Wong Chia Chi, co-starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Joan Chen, and Wang Lee-Hom. For the role of Wong Chia Chi, she has won in category Best New Performer of Golden Horse award. She has also been nominated for the Independent Spirit Award.

Tang Wei profile

Chinese name 湯唯 (Traditional)
Chinese name 汤唯 (Simplified)
Born October 7, 1979 (1979-10-07) (age 29)
Yueqing, Zhejiang, China

On 5 October 2007, Tang revealed that her Western name is Rebecca in an interview on KTSF television channel 26 in San Francisco. Her mother is an actress and her father is a painte. (more…)

Gigi Lai (born 1 October 1971) was a Hong Kong actress under contract to the Hong Kong TVB television channel who retired in October 2008.

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Chinese name 黎姿 (Traditional)
Chinese name 黎姿 (Simplified)
Pinyin Li2 Zi1 (Mandarin)
Jyutping Lai4 Zi1 (Cantonese)
Ancestry Xinhui, Guangdong
Born 1 October 1971 (1971-10-01) (age 38)
Hong Kong
Occupation Actress, singer
Genre(s) Cantopop
Voice type(s) Soprano (more…)

Zhang Xiang Zhi is a famous pop singer from mainland China. The Queen Of Love the debut album burst into the Chinese entertainment scene a few years back.

Zhang Xiang Zhi profile

Chinese name 弦子
Origin People’s Republic of China
Born April 22, 1986 (age 22)
Weight Height : 173 / 48
Blood Group : O
Occupation FHM Model, singer
Genre(s) Mandopop
Label(s) MBOX
Years active 2006 – present

Zhao Wei is a Chinese film actress and pop singer. Audiences sometimes refer to her by her English name, Vicki Zhao. She is considered one of the four most promising young film actresses in China (四小花旦), along with Xu Jinglei, Zhang Ziyi and Zhou Xun.

After being chosen to work as an extra on a filming set, Zhao developed a passion for acting. While studying at Beijing Film Academy, Zhao participated in various film projects. Zhao’s breakout role as a leading actress was in Princess Pearl, a television series. In 1999, after Princess Pearl was broadcast, Zhao also began a singing career with her first album, Swallow. After her breakthrough, Zhao has been involved in numerous controversies about her personal and professional lives, including posing in a dress resembling a Japanese war flag.

Throughout her career, Zhao has engaged herself in more varied roles, such as Lu Yiping in Romance in the Rain, a policewoman named An Xin in Jade Goddess of Mercy, the playful Qu Ran in A Time to Love, and the gentle, intelligent Yao Mulan Moment in Peking. She has also remained active in her music, recording several albums since her debut in 1999.

Vicki Zhao Wei Profile

Chinese name 趙薇 (Traditional)
Chinese name 赵薇 (Simplified)
Pinyin zhao4 wei1 (Mandarin)
Origin People’s Republic of China
Born March 12, 1976 (1976-03-12) (age 32)
Wuhu, Anhui, China
Other name(s) Vicki Zhao
Occupation actress, singer
Genre(s) Mandopop
Label(s) MBOX
Years active 1993 – present (more…)

Sammi Cheng Sau-Man is a Hong Kong actress and Cantopop singer. Having enjoyed much success in the Hong Kong music industry, Sammi has been known as a diva.
Sammi Cheng profile
Chinese name 鄭秀文 (Traditional)
Chinese name 郑秀文 (Simplified)
Pinyin zhèng xìu wén (Mandarin)
Jyutping zeng6 sau3 man4 (Cantonese)
Birth name Cheng Sau Man
Ancestry Chaozhou(Teochew), Guangdong, China
Origin Hong Kong
Born August 19, 1972 (1972-08-19) (age 35)
Hong Kong
Other name(s) Mi
Occupation Singer, Actress
Genre(s) Cantopop
Instrument(s) Singing
Label(s) Capital Artist (1988-1995)
Warner Music (1995-2005)
East Asia Records (2005-Present)
Years active 1990s, 2005-present
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Eva Huang Sheng Yi is a Chinese actress, born and raised in Shanghai, China on February 11, 1983. Her father lived and studied in the USA in the early 1990s and her mother works for a well known and famous newspaper office as an editor in Shanghai. In 2001, she graduated from Beijing film academy and is sometimes credited in her films as Eva Huang or Eva Wong. Huang is best known for her role as Fong, the lollipop girl in Kung Fu Hustle.

Kung Fu Hustle

Huang Shengyi shot to fame after starring in the comedic martial arts film titled Kung Fu Hustle, directed by and also starring acclaimed Chinese film star Stephen Chow. Her role in the film was the character by the name of Fong, an ice-cream girl who was a humble, polite and most notably sweet girl who was mute, unable to speak. She plays the role of the romance in the movie of Chow’s character Sing, the wanna-be gangster out on his luck. (more…)

Gillian Chung is a Hong Kong-based actress and singer. She is best known as a member of the Cantopop girl group Twins, alongside Charlene Choi.

Biography

Gillian Chung is a Hong Kong pop singer and actress. She resides in the affluent Midlevels district in Hong Kong with her younger sister. Chung is a graduate of the Kowloon True Light Middle School and attended RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. While at RMIT, she also worked as a part-time model. She did not finish her studies in RMIT.

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Cecilia Cheung is a Hong Kong actress and Cantopop singer. She is wife of Nicholas Tse thus the daughter-in-law of Patrick Tse (謝賢) and Deborah Lee. She and Nicholas have a son, Lucas.

Biography

Cheung was born in Hong Kong to a Chinese father and a half Chinese-half British mother. Her parents divorced when she was just a child after which she was sent to Australia to live with her aunt at the age of fourteen. Cheung has an elder half-sister Dai Pek Chi, two younger brothers and also a younger half-brother from her father’s side.

In 1998, while helping a hair stylist friend at a catwalk show, she was offered to appear in a TV commercial advertising lemon tea. Later, Cheung made her film debut as a young nightclub hostess in Stephen Chow’s The King of Comedy (1999), followed soon after by Fly Me to Polaris (1999). The latter role earned her the award for Best Newcomer at the Hong Kong Film Awards. In the same year, Cheung launched her singing career with her first Cantopop album Any Weather (1999).

For Derek Yee’s romantic drama Lost in Time (2003), Cheung won Best Actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards. She played a young woman who lost her fiancé to a traffic accident which left her as a grieving single mother struggling to make ends meet.

Personal life

Cheung has been linked to Hong Kong singer and actor, Edison Chen, and also dated Hong Kong pop singer/actor Daniel Chan. She then dated Nicholas Tse in early 2002, but was then dumped by Tse late that year when Tse got back with his ex-girlfriend, singer Faye Wong. Later she was rumored to have dated a younger Lu Siyuan before the relationship ended in 2003. Cheung suffered serious depression and eating disorder after the break up.

Cheung and Tse were first reported to be “getting back together” in early 2006 and on July 31, 2006, Tse officially admitted dating Cheung in an interview with Commercial Radio Hong Kong 881/903.

In September 2006, Tse showed off his wedding ring at the Hong Kong International Airport, announcing he and Cheung had been married in a secret wedding ceremony in the Philippines.

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Crystal Liu Yifei (born 25 August 1987 in Wuhan, China) is a Chinese actress and singer. Although she is often credited as Liu Yi Fei (Traditional Chinese: 劉亦菲; Simplified Chinese: 刘亦菲), her legal name is Liu Xi Mei Zi (Traditional Chinese: 劉茜美子; Simplified Chinese: 刘茜美子: 茜 Xi is from German movie “Sissi” (Chinese translation 茜茜公主—hence the pronunciation of xi not qian; her mother calls her Xixi). At the age of 15, Liu Yifei’s role as “Wang Yuyan” in the television serial, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils propelled her to fame in China.

Biography
Born at Tongji hospital in Wuhan, China on August 25, 1987, Liu’s birthname was An Feng (Traditional Chinese: 安風; Simplified Chinese: 安风). Her father was a university professor while her mother was a dancer and a stage performer. They divorced when she was 7 years old. After her parents’ divorce, Liu lived with her mother, Liu Xiao Li (Traditional Chinese: 劉曉莉; Simplified Chinese: 刘晓莉) and her name was changed to Liu Xi Mei Zi. She began modelling at the age of 8 and was trained in singing, dancing and the piano. Moving to the United States in 1998 with her mother, Liu lived there for four years. She returned to China in June 2002 to pursue an acting career and adopted her stage name Liu Yi Fei. In September 2002, she was accepted into the Performance Institute of Beijing Film Academy at the age of 15, She graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in July 2006.
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