Maggie Cheung
Template:Family name hatnote Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Maggie Cheung Man-yuk Template:Zh; born 20 September 1964)<ref name="one">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=two>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> is a Hong Kong actress. She is one of the most successful and internationally acclaimed actresses in Asia, renowned for her diverse and versatile performances as well as her natural acting skills. She has won numerous international acting awards, including the Best Actress Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for her performance in the film Center Stage (1991) and becoming the first Asian actress to win the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her outstanding performance in the film Clean (2004). In 2000, she starred in Wong Kar-wai's film In the Mood for Love, which not only gained her worldwide fame but also received widespread acclaim. It is now regarded as a classic in Asian cinema and fashion. After winning the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004, she put her acting career on hold and occasionally appears at fashion events and award ceremonies.
Cheung has won numerous accolades at home and abroad for her acting. From 1990 to 2001, she won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress five times, holding the record for most wins in the category. She also holds the record for most wins for the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress in Taiwan, winning four times. In Europe, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for Center Stage (1991) at the Berlin International Film Festival, and Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004 for Clean, becoming the first Asian actress to win the latter. In 2005, she became the first Asian actress to be nominated for the French César Award for Best Actress, also for Clean.
In 1985, she collaborated with Jackie Chan in the film Police Story, becoming popular in Asia and getting recognized by international audiences.
In 2002, she starred in the film Hero, which was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. In the same year, she became the cover figure of Time magazine.
After putting her acting career on hold in 2005, she gradually faded from the public eye. She occasionally appeared at some events or award ceremonies. She once served as an ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in 2010.
Early life and educationEdit
Maggie Cheung was born in Hong Kong on 20 September 1964 to Shanghainese parents.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She attended St. Paul's Primary Catholic School in Happy Valley, 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, London, and attended St Edmund's School, Canterbury. She returned to Hong Kong at the age of 18 in 1982 for a vacation but ended up staying for modelling assignments and other commitments. She also briefly had a sales job at the Lane Crawford department store.<ref name=vamp />
In 1983, Cheung entered the Miss Hong Kong pageant and won the first runner-up and the Miss Photogenic award as well.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was a semi-finalist in the Miss World pageant the same year.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Dead link</ref> After two years as a TV presenter, it led to a contract with TVB (the television arm of the Shaw Bros. Studio).<ref name=vamp>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Cheung is a polyglot as a result of her upbringing in Hong Kong and England and ten years' stay in Paris. In Center Stage, Cheung performed in Cantonese, Mandarin, and Shanghainese fluently, switching languages with ease. In Clean, she performed in fluent English, French, and Cantonese.Template:Cn
CareerEdit
Soon after her debut, Cheung broke into the film industry, starring in comedies. She caught the attention of Jackie Chan, who cast her in Police Story (1985) as May, his long-suffering girlfriend. The film was a huge hit and made Cheung a star overnight.<ref name=star>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=women>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Cheung was slated to star in TVB's "The Legend of the General Who Never Was", but due to the death of Barbara Yung who was in the midst of filming Battlefield, and The Feud That Never Was a.k.a. Kings of Ideas ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), Yung's remaining scenes were assigned to Cheung, and Cheung's role was given to Sheren Tang.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Despite her success, Cheung found herself typecast in the roles of comics or weak, clumsy women. Realizing this, Cheung wanted to break away by seeking more dramatic roles. She got this opportunity when Wong Kar-wai cast her in As Tears Go By (1988), the first of her many collaborations with Wong.<ref name=star /><ref name=women /> Cheung often cites the film as the piece that truly began her serious acting career, and she won critical praise for it. In 1989, she won Best Actress awards at the Golden Horse Award and Hong Kong Film Award for her work in Full Moon in New York and A Fishy Story respectively.<ref name=women /> In 1991, she became the first Chinese performer to win a Best Actress Award at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival for her work in Center Stage.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Cheung subsequently proved her versatility with roles in action films. Her performance in the sci-fi martial arts smash hit The Heroic Trio (1992) and its sequel, Executioners (1993), impressed both critics and audiences with her martial arts skills.<ref name=star /> Also in a departure from her usual roles, Cheung played a beautiful and vicious femme fatale in New Dragon Gate Inn (1992).<ref name=women />
After taking a break in 1994, Cheung returned to film Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep (1996), which helped her break into the international scene.<ref name=star /> That same year, she won further acclaim for her work in the romantic film Comrades: Almost a Love Story, in which she played one of a pair of lovers kept apart for ten years by fate and circumstance. The following year, she made her first English-language film in Wayne Wang's Chinese Box (1997). Cast as a mysterious young woman named Jean, Cheung held her own alongside the more internationally well-established stars, Jeremy Irons and Gong Li.<ref name=women />
After her 1998 marriage to Olivier Assayas, Cheung stayed mainly in France. She returned to Hong Kong to film In the Mood for Love (2000), which won critical acclaim and a second Taiwanese Golden Horse award for Cheung.<ref name=vamp /><ref name=star /> Thereafter, she starred in Zhang Yimou's Hero (2002) and Wong's 2046 (2004).<ref name=star /> She won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role as a mother who tries to kick her drug habit and reconcile with her long-lost son in Clean (2004).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Cheung was a jury member at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the 1999 Venice Film Festival, the 2004 Hawaii International Film Festival, the 2007 Cannes Film Festival,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the 2010 Marrakech International Film Festival.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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 Cheung as one of the 22 Great Performers in 2006 for her Cannes winning role as Emily in Clean.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref name=turn>Template:Cite news</ref> Her last film appearance was as Mazu, Chinese goddess of the sea, in the film Ten Thousand Waves (2010) by British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien.<ref name="Maggie Cheung returns in Ten Thousand Waves">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
As UK's Independent puts it, since her Cannes moment in 2004, Cheung "turned her back on film"<ref name=turn /> and has shifted her focus to philanthropy, making music, and editing. In April 2010, Cheung was appointed as UNICEF's Ambassador to China.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In July 2011, she was awarded a doctor honoris causa at the University of Edinburgh.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Cheung retired from acting in 2013 and has since kept a low profile.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Cheung has provided celebrity endorsement for Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.<ref>Wolfgang Schaefer and JP Kuehlwein, Rethinking Prestige Branding, Kogan Page, 2015, p92.</ref>
Post-retirementEdit
In May 2014, Cheung performed at the 2014 Shanghai Strawberry Music Festival. In June 2019, during a guest appearance on Mango TV reality show Template:Ill in which she mentored boyband Next, Cheung spoke frankly about her 2014 performance's poor reception.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2015, Cheung composed and performed the theme song "If You Were Gone" (Template:Lang-zh) for the anthology film Cities in Love.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> According to producer Gu Xiaodong, Cheung dedicated almost half a year to producing the song.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In June 2022, Cheung performed a DJ set at the grand opening of a new Gucci store at The Landmark in Hong Kong.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
Cheung married French director Olivier Assayas in 1998; they divorced in 2001.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She began a relationship with German architect Ole Scheeren in 2007.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The relationship ended in 2011.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2020, the Singaporean publication Today wrote that Cheung had no plans to return to acting, instead devoting her time to fashion, music, and producing and editing films.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
FilmographyEdit
FilmEdit
| Year | English title | Chinese Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Prince Charming | 青蛙王子 | Kitty | ||
| Behind the Yellow Line | 緣份 | Monica | |||
| 1985 | Girl with the Diamond Slipper | 摩登仙履奇緣 | Cheung Man Ju | ||
| Police Story | 警察故事 | May | |||
| It's a Drink, It's a Bomb | 聖誕奇遇結良緣 | Cat | |||
| 1986 | Lost Romance | 玫瑰的故事 | Rose Wong | ||
| Happy Ghost 3 | 開心鬼撞鬼 | Tsui Pan-Han | |||
| The Seventh Curse | 原振俠與衛斯理 | Tsui Hung | |||
| 1987 | Seven Years Itch | 七年之癢 | Jogger in park | Cameo | |
| Sister Cupid | 天賜良緣 | Yuk | |||
| Heartbeat 100 | 心跳一百 | Maggie Cheung | |||
| The Romancing Star | 精裝追女仔 | Maggie Tung Man-yuk | |||
| Project A Part II | A計劃續集 | Maggie / Yesan | |||
| You Are My Destiny | 用愛捉伊人 | Sports car driver | Cameo | ||
| 1988 | Call Girl '88 | 應召女郎1988 | Jenny Lin | ||
| Love Soldier of Fortune | 愛的逃兵 | So See Dai | |||
| Paper Marriage | 過埠新娘 | Jade Lee | |||
| Double Fattiness | 雙肥臨門 | Diana | |||
| As Tears Go By | 旺角卡門 | Ngor | Nominated—Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress | ||
| Mother vs. Mother | 南北媽打 | Betty | |||
| Moon, Star, Sun | 月亮星星太陽 | May | |||
| How to Pick Girls Up! | 求愛敢死隊 | Fanny | |||
| Police Story 2 | 警察故事續集 | May | |||
| Beloved Son of God | 肥貓流浪記 | Bibi Cheung | |||
| The Game They Call Sex | 黃色故事 | Chu Hsiao Min | |||
| Last Romance | 流金歲月 | Jiang Nan Sun | |||
| 1989 | The Bachelor's Swan-Song | 再見王老五 | Cheung Yuk | ||
| Doubles Cause Troubles | 神勇雙妹嘜 | Zhu Ying Tai | |||
| My Dear Son | 我要富貴 | Chow Fung | |||
| The Iceman Cometh | 急凍奇俠 | Polly | |||
| A Fishy Story | 不脫襪的人 | Huang | Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress | ||
| Hearts No Flowers | 少女心 | Ms Tsang | |||
| Little Cop | 小小小警察 | Restaurant customer | Cameo | ||
| In Between Loves | 求愛夜驚魂 | Jenny Tung | |||
| Full Moon in New York | 人在紐約 | Lee Fung-Jiau | Golden Horse Award for Best Actress | ||
| 1990 | Heart into Hearts | 三人新世界 | Joe | ||
| Song of the Exile | 客途秋恨 | Cheung Hueyin | |||
| The Dragon from Russia | 紅場飛龍 | May Yip | |||
| Red Dust | 滾滾紅塵 | Yueh-Feng | Nominated—Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress | ||
| Farewell China | 愛在別鄉的季節 | Li Hong | Nominated—Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress | ||
| Days of Being Wild | 阿飛正傳 | Su Lizhen | |||
| 1991 | The Perfect Match | 富貴吉祥 | Carrie Kam | ||
| Alan & Eric: Between Hello and Goodbye | 雙城故事 | Olive Cheung | |||
| Will of Iron | 黑雪 | Maggie | |||
| Today's Hero | 志在出位 | Annie | |||
| Center Stage | 阮玲玉 | Ruan Lingyu | Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress Golden Horse Award for Best Actress Silver Bear for Best Actress Silver Hugo Award for Best Actress | ||
| The Banquet | 豪門夜宴 | Personal Singing Instructor | Cameo | ||
| 1992 | Twin Dragons | 雙龍會 | Barbara | ||
| All's Well, Ends Well | 家有喜事 | Holli-yuk | |||
| What a Hero! | 譁! 英雄 | Lan | |||
| Heart Against Hearts | 三人做世界 | Joe | Cameo | ||
| Police Story 3: Supercop | 警察故事3: 超級警察 | May | |||
| New Dragon Gate Inn | 新龍門客棧 | Jade | Nominated—Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Horse Award for Best Actress | ||
| Rose | 白玫瑰 | Rose Chin | |||
| True Love | 真的愛妳 | Angel | |||
| Moon Warriors | 戰神傳說 | Mo-sin | |||
| 1993 | Millionaire Cop | 千面天王 | Jacky Cheuk | ||
| The Eagle Shooting Heroes | 東成西就 | Imperial Master | |||
| The Heroic Trio | 東方三俠 | Chat / Thief Catcher | |||
| First Shot | 廉政第一擊 | Annie Ma | |||
| The Bare-Footed Kid | 赤腳小子 | Pak Siu-kwan | |||
| Flying Dagger | 神經刀與飛天貓 | Flying Cat | |||
| Holy Weapon | 武俠七公主 | Princess Tin Heung | |||
| Enigma of Love | 飛越謎情 | Tammy Cheung | |||
| Mad Monk | 濟公 | Bai Xiao Yu | |||
| Boys Are Easy | 追男仔 | Ching Siu Nam | |||
| Executioners | 現代豪俠傳 | Chat / Thief Catcher / Chelsea | |||
| Green Snake | 青蛇 | Green Snake | |||
| 1994 | In Between | 新同居時代 | Coco Lau | Segment: "Unwed Mother" | |
| Ashes of Time | 東邪西毒 | Ouyang Feng's sister-in-law | |||
| 1996 | Irma Vep | 迷离劫/迷離劫 | Herself | ||
| Comrades: Almost a Love Story | 甜蜜蜜 | Li Qiao | Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress Golden Horse Award for Best Actress Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Actress | ||
| 1997 | The Soong Sisters | 宋家皇朝 | Soong Ching-ling | Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Actress | |
| Chinese Box | 中国匣 | Jean | |||
| 1999 | Augustin, King of Kung-Fu | 爱在异乡的故事 | Ling | ||
| 2000 | Sausalito | 一見鍾情 | Ellen | ||
| In the Mood for Love | 花樣年華 | Su Li-zhen | Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress Golden Horse Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Actress | ||
| 2002 | Hero | 英雄 | Flying Snow | Nominated—Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Actress | |
| 2004 | Clean | 錯得多美麗 | Emily Wang | Cannes Film Festival for Best Actress Nominated—César Award for Best Actress | |
| 2046 | 2046 | Su Li-zhen | |||
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| 2010 | Hot Summer Days | 全城熱戀 | Crying woman | Cameo |
Short filmEdit
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| 1992 | Too Happy for Words | 兩個女人，一個靚，一個唔靚 | Template:N/a | ||
| 2010 | Ten Thousand Waves | 萬層浪 | Mazu | citation | CitationClass=web
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TelevisionEdit
| Year | English title | Original Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Rainbow Round My Shoulder | 畫出彩虹 |
| Police Cadet '84 | 新紮師兄 | |
| 1985 | The Fallen Family | 武林世家 |
| Zhe Dang Pai Dang | 拆擋拍擋 | |
| The Yang's Saga | 楊家將 | |
| The Feud That Never Was | 拆档拍档 |
AwardsEdit
WinsEdit
NominationsEdit
| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Hong Kong Film Awards | Best Actress | As Tears Go By | Template:Nom |
| 1990 | Farewell China | Template:Nom | ||
| Best Supporting Actress | Red Dust | Template:Nom | ||
| 1992 | Best Actress | New Dragon Gate Inn | Template:Nom | |
| 2002 | Hero | Template:Nom | ||
| 1992 | Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards | Best Leading Actress | New Dragon Gate Inn | Template:Nom |
| 1998 | Golden Bauhinia Awards | Best Actress | The Soong Sisters | Template:Nom |
| 2000 | In the Mood for Love | Template:Nom | ||
| 2002 | Hero | Template:Nom | ||
| 2005 | César Awards | Best Actress (Meilleure actrice) | Clean | Template:Nom |
| 2002 | Chlotrudis Awards | Best Actress | In the Mood for Love | Template:Nom |
| 2007 | Best Actress | Clean | Template:Nom |
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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