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.

Awards

Tang was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award for her role in Lust, Caution in 2008.

Media Ban

In early March 2008 it was reported that some of Tang Wei’s commercial sponsors had dropped her television and print ads due to her performance in the movie Lust, Caution. This included Tang Wei’s forthcoming TV commercials (for skincare among other things).

She was set to star in Tian Zhuangzhuang’s big budget period film The Warrior and the Wolf, but due to the Chinese media ban she was replaced by actress Maggie Q. In October 2008, the Hong Kong immigration authority approved her application under Quality Migrant Admission Scheme, thus becoming a resident of Hong Kong. This creates more opportunities and broaden her career in the media industry. She also has ambitions for the United States and Hollywood as well.
Tang Wei
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Profile

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

Years active 1985-2009

Biography

She is the granddaughter of Mr. Lai Man-Wai, who was a key figure of the first generation filmmakers, and has been referred to as “Father of Hong Kong Cinema”. Gigi’s father was born deaf and when her family went bankrupt, she entered the entertainment industry at the age of 14 to earn money to support the whole family.

Gigi is very well known for her beautiful image and her love of beauty, the Hong Kong media has given her the nickname “Goddess of Beauty” (愛美神). In the past, Gigi would turn down roles if they affected her appearance on screen. However, later in her career, Gigi had overcome her self-claimed “superficial and childish image” and began to embrace many critically acclaimed roles. She has since won a Best Actress award.

After entering the entertainment industry, Gigi first started out as a singer, she released many albums during the 1990s, in both Cantonese and Mandarin. Gigi has made several box office hits, especially for her role as the innocent and stuttering “Smartie” in the popular Young and Dangerous movie series.

She won the TVB’s Most Popular Actress Award in 2004 defeating the hot favourite Sheren Tang. She portrayed a scheming and conniving concubine in the hit series “War and Beauty”. Gigi has since become very popular with fans from Hong Kong and mainland China and many overseas countries.

At the premiere event of The Gem of Life, Gigi made a surprise announcement that she will be retiring from showbiz so that she can concentrate on looking after her brother’s business after he was seriously injured in a car accident in 2007
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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

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
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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.

Post Kung Fu Hustle & Sequel

A sequel is lined up to Kung Fu Hustle, but the role of the female co-star is uncertain. Huang Shengyi was slated for a return to the sequel after winning the hearts of many in the first installment, but after working outside of her contract with Stephen Chow’s Star Overseas Company, including posing for FHM Magazine China, it is uncertain to whether or not she will return. She has since asked to be released from her contract, asking for it to be annulled. Many in the public feel that she will be very hard to replace if it comes to it, but it is hoped that she will indeed return. She has since been actively working in between China and Taiwan production companies commonly leading strong female roles such as a beautiful martial artist or cop in TV and movies

Filmography

• Sword Stained With Royal Blood (2007) – as Wen Qing Qing

• [Chung gik yan je] (2006) (as Eva Huang) …. Xiao Ling

… aka Lethal Ninja (Hong Kong: English title) (International: English title) … aka Return of the God of Battle

• Dragon Squad (2005) (as Eva Huang) …. Suet

… aka Maang lung (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)

• Tian xia di yi (2005)

(mini) TV Series …. Xueji

• Kung Fu Hustle (2004) …. Fong

… aka Gong fu (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
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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.

In 2001, Chung was approached by Emperor Entertainment Group to form a singing group, Twins, with Charlene Choi, to whom she is not actually related.^[3]

Chung made her film debut in U Man which was released in 2002 and has since proven her acting skills in a number of films like Beyond Our Ken which has earned her critical acclaim, being nominated as ‘Best Actress’ in the Gam Zhi Ging Awards. Outdoing herself in every martial arts sequence, Chung has established herself as the up and coming action star.

In the film Beyond Our Ken released in 2004, Chung played as Chan Wai Ching, a spurned girlfriend of the eponymous Ken. The film managed a box office taking of HK$3,886,355 and it has its World Premiere in Tokyo International Film Festival.^[5] In January 2006, the film 49 Days exceeded the HK$10 million mark, earning a spot in one of Hong Kong’s best box office films for the year 2006.

 Incidents

On August 22, 2006, Easy Finder magazine published a series of photos of Chung inside a dressing room after a Twins concert in Genting Highlands, Malaysia. One of the cover photos showed Chung’s backview as she is fixing her brassiere. A second, smaller cover photo shows an unclad Chung from shoulders down to her bust level.Hong Kong celebrities such as Jackie Chan staged a public protest denouncing the magazine’s irresponsible actions.

The Hong Kong Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority received 2875 complaints regarding the revealing photos and the incident was referred to the Obscene Articles Tribunal for further action.On November 1, 2006, Easy Finder lost its appeal against an obscenity ruling on the published article and pictures. The appeal panel, consisting of one magistrate and four lay members, upheld the judgement, declaring the article “obscene”, and saying it was a “calculated act of selling sexuality which is corrupting and revolting”. Jimmy Lai, founder of Next Media (Easy Finder’s publisher), interviewed on the television show Be My Guest, apologized to Gillian and offered to return all the negatives.

 2008 Photo scandal

In January and February 2008 many explicit photos involving Gillian Chung and Edison Chen were found online. The scandal also involved Bobo Chan and Cecilia Cheung.

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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.

On the January 8, 2007 episode of TVB’s Entertainment Scoop (東張西望), Cheung was publicly confirmed by Nicholas’ father, Patrick Tse, to be approximately three months pregnant with the couple’s first child.

Around March 2007 on the episode of TVB’s Entertainment Scoop (東張西望) it is said that their child is due in August. It is confirmed by Cheung’s husband Nicholas Tse that she is expecting a baby boy.

On August 2, 2007, it was reported that Cecilia Cheung and her husband were both in the maternity ward awaiting for their child to be born. However no specific photo was enclosed with such report. The very next day, Cecilia gave birth to a 6.5 lb baby boy named Lucas.

2008 Edison Chen Photo scandal

In January and February 2008 many explicit photos were found online involving Cecilia Cheung and Edison Chen. The scandal also involved Gillian Chung and Bobo Chan.

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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.

Career

Liu as “Xiaolongnü” in The Return of the Condor Heroes (2006).Immediately following her admittance into Beijing Film Academy, Liu received offers to star in various television drama serials. Her first role on television was in The Story of a Noble Family. Shortly after, she was chosen to portray the role of “Wang Yuyan” in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, a drama based on the same-titled novel by the acclaimed wuxia writer, Jinyong. It was this role that established her fame in China. Her fame was further enhanced through her starring role in the 2004 drama series adaptation of the video game, The Legend of Sword and Fairy.

In 2006, Liu starred in another television production based on a book by Jinyong, The Return of the Condor Heroes. After intense speculation on who would get the role of “Xiaolongnü”, the part was finally offered to her. She was backed by Jinyong, who felt that she had all the necessary qualities to play the role of the young and innocent “Xiaolongnü”.Although the drama serials she has acted in were well-received, the movies she starred in, did poorly in terms of box office takings. The TV drama serials are based on very popular novels, so their popularity is due to the novels themselves.

In conjunction with her acting career, Liu obtained a recording contract with Sony Music Entertainment Japan in August 2005 and has studied singing and dancing in Japan since then. She released her first single “Mayonaka no Door” with Sony Music on July 19, 2006. Recently she returned to China to co-star with Jackie Chan and Jet Li in a Journey to The West movie about rescuing the Monkey King.

Trivia

• In Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, Liu Yifei’s part was first given to Liu Tao. However, after 15-year-old Liu Yifei was spotted, she was given the role of “Wang Yuyan” and Liu Tao was cast as “A Zhu”.
• Appeared in Jimmy Lin Chih Ying’s music video of the song “I am still waiting for you” (我还在等你) from his 2006 album Can’t stop me (挡不住我). She has also previously starred in a television series (Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils) and a film (The Love Winner) with him.
• It has been said that she will attend Stanford University as a “guest” student since she did not do any admission process. Further education is still being considered by her.
  Her song “Mayonaka no Doa” as recorded by Sony Music appeared on television as one of the ending themes to “Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z”
• Her favourite singer is Namie Amuro and Faye Wong
• Favorite sport: Golf and tennis
• Favorite actress: Audrey Hepburn and Vivian Leigh

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