Maggie Cheung

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Maggie Cheung at Cannes 2007
Chinese name 張曼玉 (Traditional)
Chinese name 张曼玉 (Simplified)
Pinyin zhang1 man4 yu4 (Mandarin)
Ancestry Shanghai
Born September 20, 1964 (1964-09-20) (age 43)
Hong Kong
Occupation Actress
Years active 1983–present
Spouse(s) Olivier Assayas (1998–2001) (divorced)

Maggie Cheung (traditional Chinese: 張曼玉; simplified Chinese: 张曼玉; pinyin: Zhāng Mànyù; Cantonese Yale: Jèung Maahn Yuhk; born September 20, 1964) is a Cannes Best Actress, Berlin Best Actress, six-time Hong Kong Film Award and four-time Golden Horse winning Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Raised in England, she has over 80 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983. She is the first Asian female to win a prize at the Cannes Film Festival and is universally considered one of the greatest Asian actresses in film history.[citation needed]

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[edit] Biography

Born in Hong Kong, Maggie Cheung traces her ancestry to Shanghai, China. In 1971, she studied Primary One in St Paul's Convent School. Her merchant-class family emigrated from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom when she was a child. Cheung spent part of her childhood and adolescence in the UK. She returned to Hong Kong in 1982 for vacation, but ended up staying for modeling assignments. Soon she got a salesgirl job at a Japanese department store as well. In 1983, she entered the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant contest. She won second place and also bagged the Miss Photogenic award. She was a semi-finalist in the Miss World pageant the same year.[1]

Prior to 1988, Maggie’s screen appearance was often limited to eye candy roles. One of Cheung's notable movie roles then is that of "May", the girlfriend of police detective "Kevin" Chan Ka Kui in Jackie Chan's Police Story movies (however, she did not reprise the role in Police Story 4: First Strike or New Police Story). Maggie frequently cited her performance in the movie As Tears Go By (1988), her first of many collaborations with film director Wong Kar-Wai 王家衛, as the piece that truly began her serious acting career. Maggie Cheung is famous for being a talented multi-lingual actress. In Centre Stage, she performed in Mandarin, Cantonese and Shanghainese fluently, switching languages with ease. In Clean, she performed in fluent English, French, Cantonese and a smattering of Mandarin. Unlike most traditional actors in Hong Kong who are Cantonese monolingual, she is a polyglot as a result of her cosmopolitan upbringing.

Audiences outside Asia have become increasingly familiar with her work, including her roles in Centre Stage (as Ruan Lingyu), In the Mood for Love, Irma Vep, 2046, Hero, and, most recently, Clean.

She married French director Olivier Assayas in 1998 but divorced him in 2001. Their relationship remained amicable, however, as in 2004 Cheung made her award-winning movie Clean with him. As part of her portrayal of the drug-addicted aspiring singer Emily Wang in Clean, Maggie Cheung performed songs written by David Roback of Mazzy Star.

On 7 February 2007, The New York Times rated Maggie Cheung as one of the 22 Great Performers in 2006 for her Cannes winning role Emily in Clean. After 25 years of making movies, Cheung is deciding to retire from acting and pursue a career as a film composer. She allows that there might be room for an occasional comedic role, but she would like to paint and compose music, after fulfilling her acting potential.[2]

[edit] Awards

[edit] Filmography

Filmography
Year Title English
1984 青蛙王子 Prince Charming
1984 緣份 Behind the Yellow Line
1985 摩登仙履奇緣 Modern Cinderella
1985 警察故事 Police Story
1985 聖誕奇遇結良緣 It's a Drink, It's a Bomb
1986 玫瑰的故事 Lost Romance
1986 開心鬼撞鬼 Happy Ghost 3
1986 原振俠與衛斯理 The Seventh Curse
1987 天賜良緣 Sister Cupid
1987 心跳一百 Heartbeat 100
1987 精裝追女仔 The Romancing Star
1987 A計劃續集 Project A Part II
1988 應召女郎1988 Call Girl '88
1988 愛的逃兵 Love Soldier of Fortune
1988 過埠新娘 Paper Marriage
1988 雙肥臨門 Double Fattiness
1988 旺角卡門 As Tears Go By
1988 南北媽打 Mother vs. Mother
1988 月亮星星太陽 Moon, Star, Sun
1988 求愛敢死隊 How to Pick Up Girls
1988 警察故事續集 Police Story 2
1988 肥貓流浪記 The Nowhereman/Beloved Son Of God
1988 黃色故事 The Game They Call Sex
1988 流金歲月 Last Romance
1989 小小小警察 Little Cop
1989 不脫襪的人 A Fishy Story
1989 少女心 Hearts No Flowers
1989 再見王老五 The Bachelor's Swan-Song
1989 我要富貴 My Dear Son
1989 求愛夜驚魂 In Between Loves
1989 急凍奇俠 The Iceman Cometh
1989 神勇雙妹嘜 Doubles Cause Troubles
1990 人在紐約 Full Moon in New York
1990 三人新世界 Heart into Hearts
1990 客途秋恨 Song of the Exile
1990 紅場飛龍 Dragon From Russia
1990 愛在別鄉的季節 Farewell China
1990 滾滾紅塵 Red Dust
1991 阿飛正傳 Days of Being Wild
1991 志在出位 Today's Hero
1991 豪門夜宴 The Banquet
1991 富貴吉祥 The Perfect Match
1991 黑雪 Will of Iron
1991 雙城故事 Alan & Eric - Between Hello & Goodbye
1991 阮玲玉 aka Actress Centre Stage
1992 兩個女人，一個靚，一個唔靚 Too Happy for Words
1992 白玫瑰 Rose
1992 家有喜事 All's Well, Ends Well
1992 真的愛妳 True Love
1992 新龍門客棧 New Dragon Gate Inn
1992 嘩! 英雄 What a Hero!
1992 戰神傳說 Moon Warriors
1992 雙龍會 The Twin Dragons
1992 警察故事3: 超級警察 Police Story 3
1993 千面天王 Millionaire Cop
1993 赤腳小子 The Bare-Footed Kid
1993 東方三俠 The Heroic Trio
1993 武俠七公主 Holy Weapon
1993 青蛇 Green Snake
1993 飛越謎情 Enigma of Love
1993 射鵰英雄傳之東成西就 The Eagle Shooting Heroes: Dong Cheng Xi Jiu
1993 神經刀與飛天貓 Flying Dagger
1993 追男仔 Boys are Easy
1993 現代豪俠傳 Executioners
1993 廉政第一擊 First Shot
1993 濟公 Mad Monk
1994 新同居時代 In Between
1994 東邪西毒 Ashes of Time
1996 甜蜜蜜 Comrades: Almost a Love Story
1996 女飛賊再現江湖 Irma Vep
1997 宋家皇朝 The Soong Sisters
1998 中國匣 Chinese Box
2000 一見鍾情 Sausalito
2000 愛在異鄉的故事／功夫大王 Augustin, King of Kung-Fu
2000 花樣年華 In the Mood for Love
2002 英雄 Hero
2004 2046
2004 錯過又如何 Clean

[edit] TV Drama

TV Drama
Year Title English
1984 畫出彩虹
1984 新紮師兄 Police Cadet '84
1985 武林世家 The Fallen Family
1985 拆擋拍擋
1985 楊家將

[edit] MTV

  • 日落巴黎 Sunset in Paris (1989) Starring : Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Cherie Chung

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ - Miss World Previous Title Holders - 1983
  2. ^ Maggie Cheung : Why the Asian Star is turning her back on film - Independent Online Edition

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