Nefertiti Posted March 19, 2010 Posted March 19, 2010 Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (born 20 September 1964) is a 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. Cheung is multilingual, having learned to speak English, Mandarin and French in the course of her career. Her native language is Cantonese. 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. 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. 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 o Best Actress Award for Centre Stage (aka Actress) 阮玲玉 (1992) * Cannes Film Festival o Best Actress Award for Clean (2004)[3] * Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards o Best Actress of Golden Horse Award for Full Moon in New York 人在紐約 (1989) o Best Supporting Actress of Golden Horse Award for Red Dust 滾滾紅塵 (1990) o Best Actress of Golden Horse Award for Centre Stage (aka Actress) 阮玲玉 (1991) o Best Actress of Golden Horse Award for Comrades: Almost a Love Story 甜蜜蜜 (1996) o Best Actress of Golden Horse Award for In the Mood for Love 花樣年華 (2000) * Hong Kong Film Awards o Best Actress of Hong Kong Film Award for A Fishy Story 不脫襪的人 (1990) o Best Actress of Hong Kong Film Award for Centre Stage (aka Actress) 阮玲玉 (1992) o Best Actress of Hong Kong Film Award for Comrades, Almost a Love Story 甜蜜蜜 (1996) o Best Actress of Hong Kong Film Award for The Soong Sisters 宋家皇朝 (1998) o Best Actress of Hong Kong Film Award for In the Mood for Love 花樣年華 (2001) * Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards o Best Actress of HKFCS Award for Comrades, Almost a Love Story 甜蜜蜜 (1996) * Asia-Pacific Film Festival o Best Actress Award for Comrades, Almost a Love Story 甜蜜蜜 (1997) * Hawaii International Film Festival o Award for Achievement in Acting (2004) * 29th Montreal World Film Festival o Special Award for Exceptional Contribution to Cinematographic Art (2005) * 10th Shanghai International Film Festival o Award for Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Cinema (2007) Quote
PinkCouture Posted March 19, 2010 Posted March 19, 2010 Her official Miss Hong Kong 1983 picture: Clip of the crowning. You get a few glimpses of Maggie throughout the video: Quote
Nefertiti Posted May 16, 2010 Author Posted May 16, 2010 Maggie Cheung poses for a photograph at the entrance of the Dior Cruise 2011 fashion show on May 15, 2010 in Shanghai, China. Quote
Jennka Posted January 9, 2012 Posted January 9, 2012 Vote for Maggie in the I am the Biggest fan revival 2012 competition here Quote
Vogue Girl Posted May 13, 2012 Posted May 13, 2012 Vote for Maggie on "The Best Vogue Cover" (Celebrity Edition) competition.http://www.bellazon.com/main/index.php?s=&...t&p=2887887 Quote
Jony 07 Posted July 1, 2016 Posted July 1, 2016 Maggie Cheung was born on September 20, 1964, in Hong Kong http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001041/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Maggie Cheung / unknown / Irma Vep / (FR 1996) duration 01:15 size 54.5 vob 720 x 576http://dfiles.ru/files/mflnaigs7orhttp://uploaded.net/file/zovr687f/M.C.u.I.V.rar Quote
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