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Chingmy Yau

(Yau Suk Ching, Yau Shuk Ching)

Actress

Born: May 16th, 1968

At age 19 Chingmy Yau entered TVB's 1987 Miss Hong Kong contest, and became

a supporting actress for the network. Then Hong Kong producer-director Wong

Jing discovered and cast her in The Crazy Companies (1988), the first of many

collaborations which would continue throughout her entire career. Chingmy was more

than a mere protege, however- the two had a romantic relationship lasting six years.

Yau's obvious sex appeal was exploited in a long list of comedies and action films which

were usually either produced, written, or directed by Wong Jing, and starred such

superstars as Stephen Chow and Jet Li. In Wong Jing's cruise ship caper

City Hunter (1992), Chingmy appeared with superstar Jackie Chan.

The most famous of these films was the Category III classic Naked Killer (1992),

starring Chingmy in a stunning role as a sexy female assassin with Carrie Ng

and frequent co-star Simon Yam Tat-Wah.

Though most of Chingmy Yau's movies were highly commercial, her role in the 1998 art

house drama Hold You Tight was honored with two awards at the Berlin Film Festival,

which she attended with director Stanley Kwan and other members of the crew and cast.

In October 1999 Chingmy wed fashion store mogul Shum Ka Wai in Japan, marking her

retirement as an actress. The couple met at a friend's party and after only four months he

proposed to her on her 30th birthday. Her last on-screen appearance before marriage

was in Leslie Cheung's music special for TVB which aired the same month, done as a

favor to the star. In August 2001 Chingmy Yau delivered her first child, a baby girl.

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