Eliza Sam
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| Chinese name | 岑麗香 (traditional) | ||||||||
| Chinese name | 岑丽香 (simplified) | ||||||||
| Pinyin | Cén Lìxiāng (Mandarin) | ||||||||
| Jyutping | sam4 lai6 hoeng1 (Cantonese) | ||||||||
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17 November 1984 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Occupation | Actress | ||||||||
| Years active | 2010–present | ||||||||
| Ancestry | Guangzhou, Guangdong, China | ||||||||
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Eliza Sam (Chinese: 岑麗香; born 17 November 1984) is a Canadian actress based in Hong Kong, and is currently under contract in TVB. She won the Miss Chinese Vancouver Pageant in 2010, and went on to win the 2010 Miss Chinese International Pageant. After winning the Miss Chinese Vancouver title 2010, Sam was involved supporting organizations such as the Canadian Cancer Society and S.U.C.C.E.S.S.. She won the World Chinese Entrepreneur Scholarship in January 2010, hosted by The 4th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention, Canada Founding & Development Society.
Sam's family are Hoa, with parents of Chinese descent from Vietnam, and grandparents from Guangdong and Fujian. She was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Eliza has also stated publicly that she is a Christian.
She graduated from Surrey, Greater Vancouver's Kwantlen Polytechnic University in 2010, with a bachelor's degree in fashion design and marketing management, as well as a diploma in human resources. She was an English teacher prior to participating in Miss Chinese International.
After winning the Vancouver pageant, Sam represented Vancouver in the Miss Chinese International Pageant 2010 organized by TVB. During her final speech (which was to void points from the previous performance segments) she talked about her Cantonese being weak, and thus spending one year to practice and improve her Cantonese. Sam won the competition under the new voting system. Later she signed with TVB. On 2 December 2016, Sam openly admitted her engagement on social media with her out of industry boyfriend, Joshua. They married in Vancouver on 17 December 2016.
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