Charlie Yeung
| Charlie Young | |
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| Background information | |
| Chinese name | 楊采妮 (traditional) |
| Chinese name | 杨采妮 (simplified) |
| Pinyin | Yáng Cǎinī (Mandarin) |
| Jyutping | Jeong4 Coi2 Nei4 (Cantonese) |
| Origin | Hong Kong |
| Born |
23 May 1974 Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China |
| Other name(s) | Charlie Yeung |
| Occupation | Singer, actress, director |
| Genre(s) | Cantopop |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Spouse(s) | Qiu Shao Zhi (m. 2013) |
Charlie Young, sometimes spelled Charlie Yeung, is a Hong Kong film actress and singer. She was first noticed after appearing in a jewellery commercial with Aaron Kwok. Since then she has participated in the music videos of artists such as Hacken Lee, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Jacky Cheung and made a number of films, most famously with Tsui Hark (The Lovers, Love in the Time of Twilight, Seven Swords) and Wong Kar-wai (Ashes of Time, Fallen Angels).
She retired at the height of her career in 1997, but has since returned in 2004 in New Police Story.
In 1992, she was signed on to be a singer with EMI (Hong Kong). After releasing a couple of albums with some success (she won the TVB Jade Solid Gold (1993)'s Gold Award of "The Best New Female Singer"), she made her feature-film debut in Wong Kar-wai's arthouse martial arts film Ashes of Time alongside superstars such as Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Brigitte Lin.
In 1994, she made her first collaboration with director Tsui Hark in the film The Lovers (梁祝), a Chinese classical tale about the Butterfly Lovers. Yeung was cast as the female lead, Zhu Yingtai opposite Nicky Wu's Liang Shanbo. Her performance received widespread critical acclaim, rising Yeung to stardom. The film today has been hailed as Yeung's most representative work to date.
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