Maggie Cheung
Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (張曼玉; Pinyin: Zhāng Mànyù) is a Chinese actress born on September 20th, 1964 with HongKong.
Biography
Raised in England where its family settled whereas it was eight years old, it turns over to HongKong after her secondary studies to work there in publicity and the mannequinat.
Its career
In 1983, at the 19 years age, it gains the second place of the contest of Miss HongKong and appears then in many televised series. Its cinematographic career really begins when she plays sides of Jackie Chan in Police Story . The success of the Police Story does of it one of the large Asian film stars although it does not have any gift for martial arts. Thereafter, its collaborations with Wong Kar-wai and Tsui Hark give him a scale of internationally recognized actress.
In December 1998, she marries the French realizer Olivier Assayas which directed it in Irma Vep , but their union ends in 2001.
The general public, Hollywood and the newspapers, discover it in 2000, in In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-wai of which it becomes the egery. By overcoming the whims and the artistic hesitations of Wong Kar-wai on the turning of the film silences of the desire , Maggie Cheung reaches, following the success of film, with the statute of Asian star most known in the world. But during turning, as interminable as testing, of 2046 , it is scrambled definitively with him. This one will cut the majority of its scenes during the assembly. But she manages to start again her career thanks to the film Hero .
Brief catalog of films
Between 1984 and 2004, Maggie Cheung turned in more than sixty films, of which:-
1984 : Prince Charming of Wong Jing
- 1985: Police force Story of Jackie Chan
- 1988: As Tears Go By ( Wong gok ka moon ) of Wong Kar-wai
- 1988: Police force Story 2 of Jackie Chan
- 1990: Our wild years ( Days off Being Wild ) of Wong Kar-wai
- 1991: The Banquet of Tsui Hark
- 1992: Center Training course of Stanley Kwan
- 1992: the Inn of the Dragon ( Dragon In ) of Raymond Lee
- 1992: Double Dragon of Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam
- 1993: Green Snake of Tsui Hark
- 1993: Mad Monk of Johnnie To and Tony Ching
- 1994: Ashes of time ( Ashes off Time ) of Wong Kar-wai
- 1996: Comrades, Almost has Love Story, of Peter Chan
- 1996: Irma Vep of Olivier Assayas
- 1997: The Soong Sisters of Mabel Cheung
- 1997: Chinese Box of Wayne Wang
- 1999: Augustin, king of the kung fu of Anne Fontaine
- 2000: In the Mood for Coils Wong Kar-wai
- 2003: Hero of Zhang Yimou
- 2004: Clean of Olivier Assayas
- 2004: 2046 of Wong Kar-wai
Distinctions
- Prix of the Best actress at the time of the HongKong Film Awards 1990 for has Fishy Story
- Prix of the Best actress at the time of the HongKong Film Awards 1993 for Center Training course
- Prix of the Best actress at the time of the HongKong Film Awards 1997 for Comrades, Almost has Love Story
- Prix of the Best actress at the time of the HongKong Film Awards 1998 for The Soong Sisters
- Prix of female role to the Cannes festival 2004 for its role of Emily Wang in Clean
See too
Internal bond
External bond
- Maggie Cheung on Internet Movie Database
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