Cherie Chung

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Cherie Chung
Attending a brand event in April 2019
Born
Chung Chor-hung

(1960-02-16) 16 February 1960 (age 64)
British Hong Kong
CitizenshipBritish
OccupationActress
Years active1973–1994
Spouse
Mike Chu
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(m. 1991; died 2007)​
AwardsAsia 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钟楚红

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[edit]

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).[1]

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.[2]

She married advertising guru Mike Chu in 1991 in the United States. Chu died of cancer in August 2007.[1]

She is also very active in promoting environmental protection.

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Television[edit]

  • Floating Clouds (1981) (RTHK television series "Hong Kong, Hong Kong", no. 1)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Lui, Mabel (2023-11-24). "Cherie Chung a screen goddess, the Marilyn Monroe of Hong Kong, fans said – how she retired from acting at the height of her career and hasn't looked back". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2024-04-18.
  2. ^ Stokes, Lisa Odham (2007). Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0810864580. Retrieved 2020-12-03.

External links[edit]

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