Maggie Cheung
Gender: Female
Born: 20th September 1964 (currently 47 years old)
Nationality: China, United Kingdom
Movies: 2046, As Tears Go By, Ashes of Time, Clean, Days of Being Wild, Green Snake, Hero, In the Mood for Love, Irma Vep, The Diary, The Heroic Trio, The Eagle Shooting Heroes, The Moon Warriors, Centre Stage, The Mad Monk, Project A Part II, All's Well, Ends Well, Police Story 3: Super Cop, Twin Dragons, New Dragon Gate Inn, The Soong Sisters, Seventh Curse, Holy Weapon, Executioners, Police Story 2, Comrades: Almost a Love Story, Chinese Box, Song of the Exile, Augustin, King of Kung-Fu, The Banquet, Double Fattiness, Behind the Yellow Line, Sausalito, The Romancing Star, The Dragon from Russia, Ashes of Time Redux, Girls Without Tomorrow, Inglourious Basterds, Police Story, The Iceman Cometh, Red Dust, Full Moon in New York, Coup de Torchon, Better Life, A Fishy Story, Will of Iron, First Shot, Farewell China, Moon, Star and Sun, Dragon Inn, Hot Summer Days, Police Story, Paper Marriage, Flying Dagger, Ten Thousand Waves, In Between
Maggie Cheung Man yuk (born 20 September 1964) is a Hong Kong actress. Raised in England and Hong Kong, she has over 70 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983. Some of her most commercially successful work was in the action genre, but Cheung once said in an interview that of all the work she has done, the films that really meant something to her are Song of Exile, Centre Stage, Comrades: Almost a Love Story and In the Mood for Love. As Emily Wang in Clean, her last starring role to date, she became the first Asian actress to win a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Cheung is multilingual, having learned to speak English, Mandarin and French. Her native language is Cantonese.
Born in Hong Kong, Maggie Cheung traces her family roots to Shanghai. In 1971, she entered Primary one of St. Paul's Convent School. Her family emigrated from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom when she was eight. She spent part of her childhood and adolescence in England. She returned to Hong Kong at the age of 18 in 1982 for vacation, but ended up staying for modeling assignments and other commitments; she also shortly obtained a sales job at Lane Crawford department store. In 1983, she entered
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