Hong Kong Beautiful Actress: Christy Chung
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Christy Chung is a Hong Kong actress. While studying for a career in the tourism industry at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), she entered and won the “Miss Chinese Montreal” contest in 1992. She then went to Hong Kong, in her first trip away from home, to participate in the Miss Chinese International pageant in January 1993, in which she won despite not knowing a single Chinese word. This opened doors for her to launch her acting career there, despite not speaking a word of Cantonese at the time, and despite her extremely limited acting experience (an uncredited ten-second non-speaking role as a gum-chewing prostitute in Denys Arcand’s Love and Human Remains). She had to choose between acting in Hong Kong and becoming the weather-forecast presenter at Société Radio-Canada, the French-language government television network in Canada. A role in The Bride with White Hair 2 brought her instant recognition, and she became a well-known star in Chinese-language popular culture, acting in a large number of films including some films starring Stephen Chow, as well as The Bodyguard from Beijing starring Jet Li. She was married for a time to Glen Ross, and gave birth to daughter (Yasmine) in Montreal in the middle of the 1998 Ice Storm. Christy and Ross were divorced in 2002, but remain on good terms. Christy has sole custody of Yasmine. Giving birth to Yasmine temporarily had a negative effect on her career because of a stereotypical impression that a mother could not function as a sex symbol, but her career recovered in 2000. More recently, she had roles in Samsara and Jackie Chan’s movie The Medallion. She added Thai to her language repertoire when she starred in Nonzee Nimibutr’s 2001 film Jan Dara. Singapore FHM magazine voted her the “Sexiest Woman in Asia” in 2000. In August 2003, Christy remarried to a music producer named Jon in Beijing. Christy was recently launch her acting career in China.
Profile
English Name: Christy Chung
Cantonese Name: Chung Lai Tai 鍾麗緹
Date of birth: 19th September 1970
Place of birth: Montreal, Canada
Height: 168cm
Weight: 48kg
Horoscope: Virgo
Nationality: Vietnamese - Chinese
Languages: English, Cantonese, Vietnamese, French and some Manadarin and Thai
Favourite Food: Cookies
Favourite Movie: Mermaid got Married
Favourite Actor: Keanu Reeves
Favourite Singer: Michael Jackson
Hobbies: Riding, Dancing, Hiking and Internet
Tags: Actress, Christy Chung, Hong Kong, 鍾麗緹
June 27th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
[...] Hong Kong Beautiful Actress: Christy Chung —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- Christy Chung is a Hong Kong actress. While studying for a career in the tourism industry at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), she entered and won the “Miss Chinese Montreal” contest in 1992. She then went to Hong Kong, in her first trip away from home, to participate in the Miss Chinese International pageant in January 1993, in which she won despite not knowing a single Chinese word. This opened doors for her to launch h [...]