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Maggie Cheung
Born in Hong King on the 20 September 1964, Maggie Cheung (Cheung Man-Yuk) emigrated with her family from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom when she was a child. Cheung 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. Soon she got a salesgirl job at a Japanese department store as well. In 1983, she entered the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant contest. She won second place and also bagged the Miss Photogenic award. She was a semi-finalist in the Miss World pageant the same year.[1]
Prior to 1988, Maggie’s 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 movies (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. Maggie Cheung is famous for being a talented multi-lingual actress. In Centre Stage, she performed in Mandarin, Cantonese and Shanghainese fluently, switching languages with ease. In Clean, she performed in fluent English, French, Cantonese and a smattering of Mandarin. Unlike most traditional actors in Hong Kong who are Cantonese monolingual, she is a polyglot as a result of her cosmopolitan upbringing.
Audiences outside Asia have become increasingly familiar with her work, including her roles in Centre Stage (as Ruan Lingyu), In The Mood For Love, Irma Vep, 2046, Hero, and, most recently, Clean.
She married French director Olivier Assayas in 1998 but divorced him in 2001. Their relationship remained amicable, however, as 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, Maggie Cheung performed songs written by David Roback of Mazzy Star.
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 Emily in Clean. After 25 years of making movies, Cheung is deciding to retire from acting and pursue a career as a film composer. She allows that there might be room for an occasional comedic role, but she would like to paint and compose music, after fulfilling her acting potential.
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Clean
on DVD (2005)
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Mary Moulds, Nick Nolte
Director: Olivier Assayas
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Awarded the Best Actress Award at the 2004 Festival de Cannes for her performance, Maggie Cheung (In the Mood for Love, 2046) stars as the conflicted and confused Emily Wang in writer/director Olivier Assayas’ film.
Her past riddled with drug use, crime and the recent death of her (once famous ..read more »
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Hero
on DVD (2002)
Starring: Jet Li, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang
Director: Yimou Zhang
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Jet Li stars in this Academy Award-nominated martial-arts masterpiece takes place amidst the turmoil of China's "Warring States" period. An orphan fighter (Jet Li) presents himself to an avaricious king, bearing the weapons of three assassins (Donny Yen, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung) in exchange ..read more »
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In The Mood For Love
(2 discs)
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
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IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE centres around Chow Mo-Wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-Zhen (Maggie Cheung), neighbors living in a crowded apartment building in 1962 Hong Kong. Both married to people who are always away, they spend many nights home alone. The two make each other's acquaintance and soon find that ..read more »
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Flying Dagger
on DVD (2000)
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Jimmy Lin
Director: Kevin Chu
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Bounty hunters The Han Brothers would be making good money tracking down criminals... except they keep getting beaten to the catch by the female duo the Two Witches. But when both camps want to catch the ultimate fugitive, they realize the only way to do it is to join forces. An inspired sense of ..read more »
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46%
from 253 members
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Chinese Box
(1997)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Li Gong, Maggie Cheung
Director: Wayne Wang
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John (Irons) is an English photojournalist who has spent over a decade in Hong Kong; his friend Jim (Blades) often crashes in his cramped apartment. John's unrequited love is Vivian (Gong Li) whom he aches for but has not the nerve to possess. Concurrent with England's transfer of Hong Kong back to ..read more »
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Comrades: Almost a Love Story
(1996)
Starring: Leon Lai, Maggie Cheung
Director: Peter Chan
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Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out.
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from 18 members
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Irma Vep
on DVD (1994)
Starring: Maggie Cheung, jean-Pierre Leaud
Director: Olivier Assayas
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Hong Kong diva Cheung stars as herself, having been cast on a director's whim as the slinky, cat-burgling heroine of a remake of the vintage French serial LES VAMPIRES. Once in Paris, Cheung encounters countless culture clashes, as well as set-related mishaps that echo Truffaut's charming DAY FOR NIGHT.
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58%
from 289 members
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New Dragon Gate Inn
on DVD (1992)
Starring: Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Bridget Lin
Director: Li Hui Min
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This action-packed Hong Kong film, produced by Tsui Hark, is a clear predecessor of CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON. In the movie, an evil eunuch warlord (Donnie Yen) conspires against the Ming Dynasty and meets his match in the form of a motley band of acrobatic warriors led by the rebel Chow (Tony ..read more »
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66%
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Twin Dragons
on DVD (1992)
Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Teddy Robin Kwan
Director: Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark
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It is a tradition in the Hong Kong film community for actors and directors to donate their time and the profits from a film in order to raise funds for various causes. TWIN DRAGONS was part of an effort of the Hong Kong Directors Guild to build a new headquarters. Ringo Lam and Hark Tsui split the ..read more »
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64%
from 331 members
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Dragon From Russia
on DVD (1990)
Starring: Sam Hui, Maggie Cheung, Nina Li Chi
Director: Clarence Ford
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Two lifelong friends, after having grown up together as orphans, are separated when one is abducted and reprogrammed by a cult of kung-fu fighting madmen. Undeterred, his chum (Maggie Cheung) risks certain death to save her pal--before his training as a mindless killer is complete. Based on the ..read more »
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47%
from 212 members
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Days Of Being Wild
on DVD (1990)
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
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York was abandoned in his childhood, and spent much of his youth drifting from one friendship to the next, in the hope of discovering the identity of his birth mother. Though his foster mother is aware that she moved to the Philippines, she refuses to tell York. Yet, thanks to one of his lovers, he ..read more »
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64%
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Police Story 2
on DVD (1989)
Starring: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Kenny Ho
Director: Jackie Chan
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Like a cross between Buster Keaton and a blender, Jackie Chan is back in the second installment of the POLICE STORY series. This time Kevin (Chan) must once again face the mobster he caught in the first film--and the criminal's not too happy about his jail time. POLICE STORY 2 also stars Maggie ..read more »
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72%
from 691 members
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As Tears Go By
on DVD (1988)
Starring: Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
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A sombre, atmospheric, almost brooding film set in the frenetic and garish Mongkok district in Hong Kong, AS TEARS GO BY is art house auteur and romantic Wong Kar-Wai's first feature film. It sets the tone of films to come, exemplary of the director's existential preoccupations and obsession with ..read more »
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from 260 members
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Project A - Part 2
on DVD (1987)
Starring: Jackie Chan, Rosamund Kwan, Maggie Cheung
Director: Jackie Chan
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Jackie Chan finds a new set of adventures as Dragon Ma, the only good cop in turn-of-the-20th-century Hong Kong. This time he's assigned to clean up corruption in a local town while getting involved with a band of rebels. Chan wrote, directed, and stars in this exciting mix of action and comedy.
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Police Story
on DVD (1985)
Starring: Jackie Chan, Bridget Lin, Maggie Cheung
Director: Jackie Chan
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In Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY, Kevin (Chan), a heroic cop with the Hong Kong Police Department, is assigned to guard a key witness in the trial of a mobster he single-handedly captured. But the tables are turned when Kevin is duped by the comely witness. The drug boss is then released for lack of ..read more »
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Green Snake
on DVD
Starring: Maggie Cheung
Director: Tsui Hark
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A vibrant fantasy set during the Southern Sung Dynasty about a monk who sets out to rid the world of evil spirits. He encounters "Green Snake," a spirit who takes the guise of a beautiful woman in order to benefit mankind.
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Police Story
for Download (1987)
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung
Director: Jackie Chan
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Run time: 99 minutes
Kevin Chan is a Hong-Kong cop, who scores his first big hit by virtually single-handedly capturing and arresting a big drug- lord. Of course, the drug-lord isn't too happy about this, and frames Kevin with the murder of another cop (who happened to be on the take). Kevin has to clear his name, ..read more »
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New Dragon Gate Inn 15 April 2006
...lly, remake of King Hu's 1966 film. The plot is a tad confusing but let me try. Maggie Cheung (sigh) owns the Dragon Gate inn, in the middle of the desert. For some reason b...
Absolutely Bloody Gorgeous 28 November 2004
