Chingmy Yau

Chingmy Yau
Chinese name	邱淑貞 (Traditional)
Chinese name	邱淑贞 (Simplified)
Pinyin	Qiū Shūzhēn (Mandarin)
Jyutping	Jau1 Suk1zing1 (Cantonese)
Ancestry	Panyu, Guangdong, China
Origin	Hong Kong
Born	16 May 1968 (1968-05-16) (age 43) Hong Kong
Occupation	actress
Years active	1989–present
Spouse(s)	Shen Jiawei

Chingmy Yau is a Hong Kong actress who no longer takes part in films although she is not formally retired.^{[citation needed]}

Yau entered the Hong Kong film industry after competing in the 1987 Miss Hong Kong Beauty Pageant.

She was one of the leading actresses in the late 1980s and early 1990s, next to Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin and Cheung Man. Wong cast her in a series of Category III films, though she never appeared nude in any of them. The most notable of these was Naked Killer (1992). During the height of her success, she regularly starred alongside superstars like Jet Li, Stephen Chow, and Ekin Cheng.

In 1999 she married Hong Kong fashion designer Shen Jiawei. They have two children together.

Partial filmography

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Raped by an Angel 4: The Raper's Union (1999) Hold You Tight (1997) Lawyer Lawyer (1997) Feel 100%...Once More (1996) 4 Faces of Eve (1996) Bodyguards of Last Governor (1996) Street Angels (1996) Satan Returns (1996) Young and Dangerous 3 (1996) Young and Dangerous 2 (1996) Blind Romance (1996) I'm Your Birthday Cake (1995) Legendary Couple (1995) High Risk aka Meltdown (1995) The Saint of Gamblers (1995) Lover of the Last Empress (1995) 1941 Hong Kong on Fire (1995) God of Gamblers' Return (1994) Return to a Better Tomorrow (1994) Modern Romance (1994) Modern Love (1994) The New Legend of Shaolin (1994) Kung Fu Cult Master (1993) Raped by an Angel (1993) Psycho Killer (Yu ye tian mo) (1993)

Millionaire Cop (1993) Legend of the Liquid Sword (1993) Ghost Lantern (1993) Future Cops (1993) Boys Are Easy (1993) City Hunter (1993) Royal Tramp II (1992) Royal Tramp (1992) Truant Heroes (1992) She Starts the Fire (1992) Naked Killer (1992) Deadly Dream Woman (1992) City Hunter (1992) Casino Tycoon 2 (1992) Casino Tycoon (1992) Tricky Brains (1991) Money Maker (1991) Lee Rock III (1991) Lee Rock II (1991) Lee Rock (1991) My Neighbors are Phantoms (1990) The Romancing Star III (1989) Perfect Match (1989) They Came to Rob Hong Kong (1989) Mr. Fortune (1989) Ghost Busting (1989) Happy Together (1989) The Crazy Companies II (1988) The Crazy Companies (1988) How To Pick Girls Up (1988)

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References

1. ^ "Chingmy Yau". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0946873/. Retrieved April 4, 2010. 
2. ^ "Chingmy Yau". chinesemov.com. http://chinesemov.com/actors/Chingmy%20Yau.html. Retrieved April 4, 2010. 

External links

• Website about Chingmy Yau
• Chingmy Yau Suk-ching at the Internet Movie Database
• hkcinemagic entry
• lovehkfilm entry

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Name	Yau, Chingmy
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Date of birth	May 16, 1968
Place of birth	Hong Kong
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