Cherie Chung
Cherie Chung | |||
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Born | Chung Chor-hung 16 February 1960 | ||
Occupation | Actress | ||
Years active | 1973–1994 | ||
Spouse(s) | Mike Chu
(m. 1991; died 2007) | ||
Awards | Asia Pacific Film Festival Best Actress 1984 Hong Kong, Hong Kong Asia Pacific Film Festival Best Actress 1987 An Autumn's Tale | ||
Chinese name | |||
Traditional Chinese | 鍾楚紅 | ||
Simplified Chinese | 锺楚红 | ||
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Cherie Chung Chor-hung (Chinese: 鍾楚紅; Jyutping: zung1 co2 hung4; born 16 February 1960) is a retired Hong Kong film actress. Of Hakka ancestry, she was one of the top actresses in Hong Kong film during the 1980s.
Background[]
Chung participated in the 1979 Miss Hong Kong competition and came in 3rd runner-up. She was later discovered by film director Johnnie To and debuted in his first film The Enigmatic Case (1980).
Her beauty and charm led her to become one of the top actresses in Hong Kong at the time. In her film career, one of her most famous performances was in Mabel Cheung's An Autumn's Tale (1987), where she portrayed Jennifer, an educated middle-class woman who falls in love with a rude and uneducated man played by Chow Yun-fat. The film became one of the most successful romance flicks in Hong Kong film history[citation needed]. She is known as the "Marilyn Monroe" of Hong Kong and the Chinese entertainment industry due to her beautiful looks. Chung retired from acting in the 1990s. Her last film was John Woo's Once a Thief (1991), which was also a classic. [1]
She married advertising guru Mike Chu in 1991 in the United States. Chu was known for his achievements in the Hong Kong advertising industry. Before the wedding, they come into agreement to be "child-free". On 24 August 2007, Chu died of stomach cancer. He was given a Catholic funeral.
She is also very active in promoting environmental protection.
Filmography[]
Film[]
- Once a Thief (1991) – Red Bean
- Zodiac Killers (1991) – Mang Tit Lan
- Stars & Roses (1989)
- Happy Together (1989)
- Wild Search (1989) – Cher
- (1989)
- Last Romance (1988)
- (1988) – Chu So-So
- (1988) – Ho's girlfriend
- Chaos by Design (1988)
- (1988) – Ko Sau-Ping
- The Eight Happiness (1988) – Beautiful
- (1988) – Hsiao-Hsueh/Lu Hsiao-Ping
- (1988)
- (1988)
- (1988) – Hung
- Walk on Fire (1988) – Miss Chung
- (1988) – Mary Huang
- (1988) – Cecilia Yau Tai-Kam
- The Yuppie Fantasia (1988)
- (1988) – Frances
- (1988) – GiGi
- An Autumn's Tale (1987) – Jennifer
- (1987)
- Spiritual Love (1987) – Wei Hsiao-Tieh
- Goodbye Darling (1987) – Josephine
- (1987)
- Peking Opera Blues (1986) – Sheung Hung
- (1986) – Din-Din
- (1985) – Diana
- Women (1985)
- (1985)
- (1984) – Cherie Teng
- (1984) – Amy
- The Hidden Power of the Dragon Sabre (1984)
- (1984)
- Prince Charming (1984) – Yuk Duk-mei
- (1984)
- (1984) – Cathy
- (1983) – Princess
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong (1983) – Man Si Sun
- (1983) – Mei
- Boys and Girls (1983)
- Winners and Sinners (1983) – Shirley
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1983)
- (1982)
- (1982) – Miss Yuen
- It Takes Two (1982)
- The Story of Woo Viet (1981) – Shum Ching
- The Postman Strikes Back (1981) – Guihua
- (1980) – Yao Puipui
Television[]
- Floating Clouds (1981) (RTHK television series "Hong Kong, Hong Kong", no. 1)
References[]
- ^ Stokes, Lisa Odham (2007). Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 127. ISBN 0810864584. Retrieved December 3, 2020.
External links[]
- Cherie Chung at IMDb
- Cherie Chung Cho Hung at hkmdb.com
- Cherie Chung Chor Hung at hkcinemagic.com
- Movie stills from An Autumn's Tale (Japan version)
- Floating Clouds (45 minutes; RTHK television series "Hong Kong, Hong Kong", no. 1; broadcast on 17 October 1981; RTHK official website)
- Ford, Stacilee. Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting's An Autumn's Tale (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008)
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Hong Kong film actresses
- Hong Kong environmentalists
- Hong Kong women environmentalists
- Hong Kong people of Hakka descent
- People from Boluo
- Indigenous inhabitants of the New Territories in Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Roman Catholics