Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (Chinese: 張曼玉; 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.
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Early life and education 1
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Career 2
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Personal life 3
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Awards 4
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Filmography 5
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TV Drama 6
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Music Video/Music TV Drama 7
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Early life and education
Maggie Cheung was born in Hong Kong in 1964 to Shanghainese parents. She attended St. Paul's Convent School, where she began at the primary one level. Her family emigrated from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom when she was eight. She spent part of her childhood and adolescence in Bromley, Kent, England. She returned to Hong Kong at the age of 18 in 1982 for a 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, Cheung entered the Miss Hong Kong pageant and won the first runner-up and the Miss Photogenic award as well.[1] She was a semi-finalist in the Miss World pageant the same year.[2]
Prior to 1988, Cheung screen appearance was often limited to eye candy 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, as the piece that truly began her serious acting career.
Cheung is a polyglot as a result of her upbringing in Hong Kong and England and ten years' stay in Paris. In Centre Stage, Cheung performed in Cantonese, Mandarin and Shanghainese fluently, switching languages with ease. In Clean, she performed in fluent English, French and Cantonese.
Career
Audiences outside Asia have become increasingly familiar with Cheung's work, including Irma Vep, Centre Stage, Chinese Box, In the Mood for Love, Hero, 2046, and, (still) most recently, Clean.
Cheung was a jury member at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival,[3] the 1999 Venice Film Festival,[4] the 2004 Hawaii Int'l Film Festival, the 2007 Cannes Film Festival,[5] and the 2010 Marrakech Film Festival.[6] And 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.[7] After 25 years of making movies, she decided to retire from acting to pursue a career as a film composer. She had mentioned she would like to compose music and paint after having fulfilled her acting potential.[8] Her most recent film appearance was as Mazu, Chinese goddess of the sea, in the film/video installation Ten Thousand Waves by British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien.
As UK's Independent puts it, since her Cannes moment in 2004, Cheung "turned her back on film"[9] and has shifted her focus to philanthropy, making music, and editing. In April 2010, Cheung was appointed as UNICEF's Ambassador to China. In July 2011, she was awarded a doctor honoris causa at the University of Edinburgh.[10]
Personal life
Cheung had a relationship with Hong Kong film director Derek Yee in the late 1980s.[11][12]
Cheung married French director Olivier Assayas in 1998. They divorced in 2001 but their relationship remained amicable. In 2004, Cheung made her award-winning film Clean with him. As part of her portrayal of recovering drug addict and aspiring singer Emily in Clean, Cheung performed songs written by David Roback of Mazzy Star and Dean Wareham of Dean & Britta.
Awards
Filmography
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日落巴黎 Sunset in Paris (1989) Starring: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Cherie Chung
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穿梭梦里人 (1991) Starring: Jacky Cheung (张学友), Maggie Cheung
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一場遊戲一場夢 Starring: Dave Wang (王傑), Maggie Cheung
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半夢半醒之間 Starring: Alan Tam (谭咏麟), Maggie Cheung
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One on One with Maggie Cheung, moderated by Kent Jones
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Maggie Cheung at the Internet Movie Database
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The New York TimesMaggie's Bio in
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Maggie Cheung - Taking Chinese Modernity to the West
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The San Francisco ChronicleThe Zen of Maggie,
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Village VoiceMaggie Cheung & Tony Leung - Glimmer Twins,
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Maggie Cheung masterclass at the UK Festival of Chinese Cinema: Cinema China 07
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dailymotionMaggie Cheung on Clean @
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Historical List of Taiwan Golden Horse Award Winners
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Honorary Degree for Maggie Cheung at Edinburgh University
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