Cecilia Cheung
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Cecilia Cheung in March 2012
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| Chinese name | (traditional) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Jyutping | Zeong1 Paak3 Zi1 (Cantonese) | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth name | Cheung Pak-Chi | ||||||||||||||||
| Origin | Hong Kong, China | ||||||||||||||||
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24 May 1980 British Hong Kong |
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| Occupation | Actress, singer | ||||||||||||||||
| Genre(s) | Cantopop | ||||||||||||||||
| Instrument(s) | Vocals | ||||||||||||||||
| Voice type(s) | Contralto | ||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1998–present | ||||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Nicholas Tse (m. 2006–2011) | ||||||||||||||||
| Children | Lucas Tse (b. 2007) Quintus Tse (b. 2010) |
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| Parents | Davies Shally (mother) Cheung Yan Yung (father) |
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Cecilia Cheung Pak-Chi (born 24 May 1980) is an award-winning Hong Kong actress and cantopop singer. She is the ex-wife of Nicholas Tse, thus being the former daughter-in-law of Patrick Tse and Deborah Lee Po-Lai. She and Nicholas have two sons, Lucas and Quintus Tse. She is considered a "Sing girl"—an actress who first received media attention through starring alongside Stephen Chow, and later went on to her own successful career.
Cheung was born in Man Wah Sun Chuen, Jordan, Hong Kong to a Chinese father and a half Chinese-half British mother. Her parents divorced when she was nine years old. She was sent to Melbourne, Australia to live with her aunt at the age of fourteen and then attended Camberwell Girls Grammar School. She has an elder half-sister, two younger brothers and a younger half-brother from her father's side.
Her career began in 1998, when she was cast in a television commercial advertising lemon tea. She caught the attention of Stephen Chow after shooting the ad. Later, Cheung made her film debut as a young nightclub hostess in Stephen Chow's King of Comedy (1999), followed soon after by Fly Me to Polaris (1999). The latter role earned her the award for Best Newcomer at the Hong Kong Film Awards. In the same year, Cheung launched her singing career with her first Cantopop album Any Weather (1999). For Derek Yee's romantic drama Lost in Time (2003), Cheung won the award for Best Actress at the 23rd (2004) Hong Kong Film Awards. She played a young woman who lost her fiancé to a traffic accident, which left her as a grieving single mother struggling to make ends meet.
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