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Maggie Cheung Man-yuk
Maggie Cheung at Cannes 2007
Chinese name	張曼玉 (Traditional)
Chinese name	张曼玉 (Simplified)
Pinyin	Zhāng Mànyù (Mandarin)
Jyutping	Jèung Maahn Yuhk (Cantonese)
Ancestry	Shanghai, China
Born	20 September 1964 (1964-09-20) (age 45) Hong Kong
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1983–2004, 2009-present
Spouse(s)	Olivier Assayas (1998–2001; divorced)
Awards Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actress 1989 A Fishy Story 1992 Centre Stage 1996 Comrades: Almost a Love Story 1998 The Soong Sisters 2001 In the Mood for Love Golden Bauhinia Awards Best Actress 1996 Comrades: Almost a Love Story Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards Best Actress 1996 Comrades: Almost a Love Story Golden Horse Awards Best Actress 1989 Full Moon in New York 1990 Red Dust 1991 Centre Stage 1996 Comrades: Almost a Love Story 2000 In the Mood for Love Other Awards Silver Bear for Best Actress 1992 Centre Stage Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival) 2004 Clean Hawaii International Film Festival 2004 Award for Achievement in Acting

Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (born 20 September 1964) is a Cannes Best Actress, Berlin Best Actress, five-time Hong Kong Film Award and five-time Taiwan Golden Horse winning Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Raised in England, she has over 70 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983. She is the first Asian actress to win a prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Biography

Born in Hong Kong, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk traces her family roots to Shanghai. In 1971, she entered Primary one of St. Paul's Convent School. Her merchant-class family emigrated from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom when she was eight. She 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; she also got a sales job at Lane Crawford department store. In 1983, she entered the Miss Hong Kong pageant, where she was first runner-up and won the Miss Photogenic award. She was a semi-finalist in the Miss World pageant the same year.^[1]

Prior to 1988, her screen appearance was often limited to cameo 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 series (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. In Centre Stage, she performed in Cantonese , Mandarin and Shanghainese fluently, switching languages with ease. In Clean, she performed in fluent English, French and Cantonese. She is a polyglot as a result of her upbringing in Hong Kong and England.

Audiences outside Asia have become increasingly familiar with her work, including Irma Vep, Centre Stage, Chinese Box, In the Mood for Love, Hero, 2046, and, most recently, Clean.

Cheung was a jury member at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival, the 1999 Venice Film Festival and the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. For the first time in its history, the 59th Cannes Film Festival (2006) used a photographic image of a real actress on its poster — that of Cheung.

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 as Emily in Clean. After 25 years of making movies, she decided to retire from acting to pursue a career as a film composer. She would like to compose music and paint, after fulfilling her acting potential.^[2]

Personal

She married French director Olivier Assayas in 1998 and they divorced in 2001. Their relationship remained amicable, however, and, 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, Cheung performed songs written by David Roback of Mazzy Star.

Awards

• Berlin International Film Festival
  • Best Actress Award for Centre Stage (aka Actress) 阮玲玉 (1992)
• Cannes Film Festival
  • Best Actress Award for Clean (2004)^[3]
• Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards
  • Best Actress of Golden Horse Award for Full Moon in New York 人在紐約 (1989)
  • Best Supporting Actress of Golden Horse Award for Red Dust 滾滾紅塵 (1990)
  • Best Actress of Golden Horse Award for Centre Stage (aka Actress) 阮玲玉 (1991)
  • Best Actress of Golden Horse Award for Comrades: Almost a Love Story 甜蜜蜜 (1996)
  • Best Actress of Golden Horse Award for In the Mood for Love 花樣年華 (2000)
• Hong Kong Film Awards
  • Best Actress of Hong Kong Film Award for A Fishy Story 不脫襪的人 (1990)
  • Best Actress of Hong Kong Film Award for Centre Stage (aka Actress) 阮玲玉 (1992)
  • Best Actress of Hong Kong Film Award for Comrades, Almost a Love Story 甜蜜蜜 (1996)
  • Best Actress of Hong Kong Film Award for The Soong Sisters 宋家皇朝 (1998)
  • Best Actress of Hong Kong Film Award for In the Mood for Love 花樣年華 (2001)
• Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
  • Best Actress of HKFCS Award for Comrades, Almost a Love Story 甜蜜蜜 (1996)
• Asia-Pacific Film Festival
  • Best Actress Award for Comrades, Almost a Love Story 甜蜜蜜 (1997)
• Hawaii International Film Festival
  • Award for Achievement in Acting (2004)
• 29th Montreal World Film Festival
  • Special Award for Exceptional Contribution to Cinematographic Art (2005)
• 10th Shanghai International Film Festival
  • Award for Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Cinema (2007)

Filmography

TV Drama

MTV

• 日落巴黎 Sunset in Paris (1989) Starring: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Cherie Chung
• 一場遊戲一場夢 Starring: Dave Wang (王傑), Maggie Cheung
• 半夢半醒之間 Starring: Alan Tam, Maggie Cheung

See also

• Cinema of Hong Kong
• Wong Kar-wai
• Tony Leung Chiu Wai
• Leslie Cheung

References

External links

• One on One with Maggie Cheung
• Maggie Cheung at the Internet Movie Database
• Maggie's Bio in The New York Times
• Maggie Cheung - Taking Chinese Modernity to the West
• The Zen of Maggie, The San Francisco Chronicle
• Maggie Cheung & Tony Leung - Glimmer Twins, Village Voice * Maggie Cheung - Resisting Hollywood's Claws, The Times
• Maggie Cheung - Coming Clean, PAPER magazine
• Maggie Cheung masterclass at the UK Festival of Chinese Cinema: Cinema China 07
• Maggie Cheung - China's Garbo, The Sunday Herald
• Historical List of Taiwan Golden Horse Award Winners
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