Karen Joy Morris
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Karen Mok at the TV show "The Next (天籁之战)", Oct 2016
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| Chinese name | 莫文蔚 | ||||||||||||||||
| Pinyin | Mò Wén Wèi (Mandarin) | ||||||||||||||||
| Jyutping | Mok6 Man4-wai3 (Cantonese) | ||||||||||||||||
| Birth name | Karen Joy Morris | ||||||||||||||||
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2 June 1970 Hong Kong |
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| Nationality | China | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | singer, actress, composer, producer, designer | ||||||||||||||||
| Genre(s) | Cantopop, C-Rock, Alternative pop, Pop rock, Mandopop | ||||||||||||||||
| Instrument(s) | Piano, Oboe, Gu Zheng | ||||||||||||||||
| Voice type(s) | Mezzo-soprano | ||||||||||||||||
| Label(s) |
Star Records (1993–1995) Rock Records (1996–2001) Sony BMG (2002–2008) Universal Music (2009–present) |
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| Years active | 1993–present | ||||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Johannes Natterer (m. 2011) | ||||||||||||||||
| Website | karenmok |
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Karen Mok known in the Chinese-speaking communities by Mok Man-wai/Mo Wen Wei (莫文蔚), is one of the leading Chinese actors and pop stars. She has won the Golden Melody Award three times, has released over 20 solo CDs, has acted in over 40 movies and has over 36 million followers on Chinese microblogging site Weibo.
Mok was born on 2 June 1970 as Karen Joy Morris in Hong Kong and is the sister of the writer and producer Trevor Morris, and a granddaughter of Alfred Morris, the first principal of King's College, Hong Kong. She speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian, German and French.
She is of mixed ancestry: her father is half-Chinese and half-Welsh, while her mother is half-Chinese, quarter-Iranian, and quarter-German. Mok attended Diocesan Girls' School from primary to secondary grade in Hong Kong. When she was a F.5 student, she received the 1st Hong Kong Outstanding Students Awards. She later left Hong Kong in 1987 and studied abroad. She attended United World College of the Adriatic near Trieste, Italy from 1987 to 1989, and majored in Italian literature when studying at Royal Holloway, University of London.
In her initial Hollywood productions such as Around the World in 80 Days (2004) Mok used her birth name Karen Joy Morris, but went to using her stage name Karen Mok for all future productions such as Man of Tai Chi (2013) . She also supplied the voice of Princess Kida for the Cantonese dub of Walt Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001). Mok played the female lead in the 10th anniversary Asian tour of the hit Broadway musical Rent in the lead role of Mimi in 2005 and 2006.
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