Charlie Yeung
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Charlie Yeung Choi-Nei, sometimes spelled Charlie Young, is a Chinese 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 video
s 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
.
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
on 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 Charlie's most representative work to date.
Between 1994 to 1997, she was arguably the most popular artist in Hong Kong
, with her charming face appearing everywhere from magazines and posters to advertisements and movies.
At the height of her popularity in 1997, however, she called it quits and retire from the industry to start an image consultant business with her Singapore
an lawyer-boyfriend in Malaysia.
In 2004, after a failed relationship and business, she made her comeback as the lead actress in Jackie Chan
's New Police Story
. Following that, she collaborated once again with Tsui Hark
on the martial arts movie Seven Swords
and starred alongside Andy Lau
in the love movie All About Love. She later co-starred in the film After This Our Exile
opposite Aaron Kwok
. She has made plans to appears in a sequel to Seven Swords. She also plays the deaf love interest to Nicolas Cage
in Bangkok Dangerous
.
In 2006, Charlie and her friends, Valen Hsu
, Gigi Leung
and Angelica Lee
formed "Hope Foundation". A non-profit organization to help children in need, and later formed "Save-a-Smile"
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
actress and singer. She was first noticed after appearing in a jewellery
Jewellery
Jewellery or jewelry is a form of personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets.With some exceptions, such as medical alert bracelets or military dog tags, jewellery normally differs from other items of personal adornment in that it has no other purpose than to...
commercial with Aaron Kwok
Aaron Kwok
Aaron Kwok Fu-shing is a Hong Kong singer, dancer and actor. He has been active since the 1980s to the present. The media refer to him, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau and Leon Lai as the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings . Kwok's onstage dancing and displays is influenced by Michael Jackson...
. Since then she has participated in the music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
s of artists such as Hacken Lee
Hacken Lee
Hacken Lee Hak Kan is an award winning Hong Kong based Cantopop singer and lyricist, actor, Master of Ceremonies and Association football sportscaster.-Early years: 1985-1995:...
, Takeshi Kaneshiro
Takeshi Kaneshiro
Takeshi Kaneshiro , born October 11, 1973, is a Taiwan-born Japanese actor and singer.-Name:...
and Jacky Cheung
Jacky Cheung
Jacky Cheung is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor. The Chinese language media refers to him, Aaron Kwok, Andy Lau and Leon Lai as the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings , with more than 60 million records sold as of 2000....
and made a number of films, most famously with Tsui Hark
Tsui Hark
Tsui Hark , born Tsui Man-kong, is a Hong Kong New Wave film director and producer. He is viewed as a major figure in the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema .-Early life:...
(The Lovers
The Lovers (1994 film)
The Lovers is a 1994 Hong Kong romance film based on the Chinese legend of the Butterfly Lovers. It was directed and produced by Tsui Hark, and starred Nicky Wu, Charlie Yeung, Elvis Tsui and Carrie Ng...
, Love in the Time of Twilight, Seven Swords
Seven Swords
Seven Swords is a 2005 Hong Kong wuxia film adapted from Liang Yusheng's novel Qijian Xia Tianshan. It was produced and directed by Tsui Hark, and starred Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung, Sun Honglei, Lu Yi and Kim So-yeon...
) and Wong Kar-wai
Wong Kar-wai
Wong Kar-wai BBS is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild , Ashes of Time , Chungking Express , Fallen Angels , Happy Together and 2046...
(Ashes of Time
Ashes of Time
-Critical:When the film opened in Hong Kong it received mixed reviews. Critics found it so elliptical that it was almost impossible to make out any semblance of a plot, something very rare in a wuxia film....
, Fallen Angels
Fallen Angels (1995 film)
Fallen Angels is a 1995 Hong Kong movie written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Leon Lai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Michelle Reis, Charlie Yeung and Karen Mok.Fallen Angels can be seen as a companion piece to Chungking Express...
).
She retired at the height of her career in 1997, but has since returned in 2004 in New Police Story
New Police Story
New Police Story is a 2004 Hong Kong action film starring Jackie Chan and directed by Benny Chan.The film is a reboot of the Police Story series. New Police Story relies much more on drama and heavy action than its predecessors.-Plot:...
.
Career
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 TVBTelevision Broadcasts Limited
Television Broadcasts Limited, commonly known as TVB, is the second over-the-air commercial television station in Hong Kong. It commenced broadcasting on 19 November 1967...
Jade Solid Gold (1993)'s Gold Award of "The Best New Female Singer"), she made her feature-film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
debut in Wong Kar-wai
Wong Kar-wai
Wong Kar-wai BBS is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild , Ashes of Time , Chungking Express , Fallen Angels , Happy Together and 2046...
's arthouse martial arts film
Martial arts film
Martial arts film is a film genre. A sub-genre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous fights between characters, usually as the films' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often as a method of storytelling and character expression and development. Martial arts are frequently...
Ashes of Time
Ashes of Time
-Critical:When the film opened in Hong Kong it received mixed reviews. Critics found it so elliptical that it was almost impossible to make out any semblance of a plot, something very rare in a wuxia film....
alongside superstars such as Leslie Cheung
Leslie Cheung
Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing , nicknamed elder brother , was a film actor and musician from Hong Kong. Cheung was considered as "one of the founding fathers of Cantopop", and "combining a hugely successful film and music career".In 2000, Cheung was named Asian Biggest Superstar by China Central...
, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Brigitte Lin
Brigitte Lin
Brigitte Lin or Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia is a Taiwanese actress. She was a popular actress, regarded as an icon of Chinese cinema, who acted in both Taiwanese and Hong Kong movies...
.
In 1994, she made her first collaboration with director Tsui Hark
Tsui Hark
Tsui Hark , born Tsui Man-kong, is a Hong Kong New Wave film director and producer. He is viewed as a major figure in the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema .-Early life:...
on the film The Lovers (梁祝), a Chinese classical tale about the Butterfly Lovers
Butterfly Lovers
The Butterfly Lovers is a Chinese legend of a tragic love story of a pair of lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai , whose names form the title of the story...
. Yeung was cast as the female lead, Zhu Yingtai opposite Nicky Wu
Nicky Wu
Nicky Wu is a Taiwanese singer and actor. Wu found fame in 1988, by joining the Taiwanese boy band, Little Tigers Team, performing alongside Alec Su and Julian Chen. Since then, his career has also expanded into film and television in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China.-Childhood:Nicky Wu is the...
's Liang Shanbo. Her performance received widespread critical acclaim, rising Yeung to stardom. The film today has been hailed as Charlie's most representative work to date.
Between 1994 to 1997, she was arguably the most popular artist in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, with her charming face appearing everywhere from magazines and posters to advertisements and movies.
At the height of her popularity in 1997, however, she called it quits and retire from the industry to start an image consultant business with her Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
an lawyer-boyfriend in Malaysia.
In 2004, after a failed relationship and business, she made her comeback as the lead actress in Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan, SBS, MBE is a Hong Kong actor, action choreographer, comedian, director, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer. In his movies, he is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts...
's New Police Story
New Police Story
New Police Story is a 2004 Hong Kong action film starring Jackie Chan and directed by Benny Chan.The film is a reboot of the Police Story series. New Police Story relies much more on drama and heavy action than its predecessors.-Plot:...
. Following that, she collaborated once again with Tsui Hark
Tsui Hark
Tsui Hark , born Tsui Man-kong, is a Hong Kong New Wave film director and producer. He is viewed as a major figure in the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema .-Early life:...
on the martial arts movie Seven Swords
Seven Swords
Seven Swords is a 2005 Hong Kong wuxia film adapted from Liang Yusheng's novel Qijian Xia Tianshan. It was produced and directed by Tsui Hark, and starred Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung, Sun Honglei, Lu Yi and Kim So-yeon...
and starred alongside Andy Lau
Andy Lau
Andy Lau MH, JP is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer, actor, and film producer. Lau has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maintaining a successful singing career at the same time...
in the love movie All About Love. She later co-starred in the film After This Our Exile
After This Our Exile
After This Our Exile is a 2006 Hong Kong film directed by Patrick Tam.-Plot:In hopeless pursuit of happiness, Shing is a man who desperately attempts to hold on to the dwindling threads of his family. Once a man who had a dream, Shing has become a deadbeat gambler whose marriage is failing with...
opposite Aaron Kwok
Aaron Kwok
Aaron Kwok Fu-shing is a Hong Kong singer, dancer and actor. He has been active since the 1980s to the present. The media refer to him, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau and Leon Lai as the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings . Kwok's onstage dancing and displays is influenced by Michael Jackson...
. She has made plans to appears in a sequel to Seven Swords. She also plays the deaf love interest to Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage is an American actor, producer and director, having appeared in over 60 films including Raising Arizona , The Rock , Face/Off , Gone in 60 Seconds , Adaptation , National Treasure , Ghost Rider , Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans , and...
in Bangkok Dangerous
Bangkok Dangerous
Bangkok Dangerous is a 1999 Thai crime film written and directed by the Pang Brothers. Stylishly edited, the story of a deaf and mute hitman was the debut film for the twin-brother team of filmmakers. A 2008 remake of the same name also directed by the Pangs, stars Nicolas Cage...
.
In 2006, Charlie and her friends, Valen Hsu
Valen Hsu
Valen Hsu, also known as Xiu Xiu , was born on 20 September 1974 in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. She is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer-songwriter. Hsu is widely known for her sad love ballads which have earned her the nickname "The Queen of Love Songs"...
, Gigi Leung
Gigi Leung
Gigi Leung Wing-kei is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress.-Biography:Given the name Leung Bik-Zi at birth, at the age of 7 her mother changed her name changed to 'Wing-Kei' for superstitious reasons; as a child, Leung suffered from frequent asthma attacks and it was believed a change of name...
and Angelica Lee
Angelica Lee
Angelica Lee Sin-Jie is a Malaysian Chinese film actress and pop singer. She started her career in singing and later moved on to acting in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Lee starred in The Eye, the hit Asian horror film by the Pang Brothers, winning her the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, Best Actress...
formed "Hope Foundation". A non-profit organization to help children in need, and later formed "Save-a-Smile"
Filmography
- Hundred Years of a Floating City (2012)
- SleepwalkerSleepwalker (film)Sleepwalker is an upcoming 2011 Hong Kong film directed by Oxide Pang.-Cast:* Angelica Lee* Charlie Yeung* Huo Siyan* Li Zhonghan* Paw Hee-ching* Kent Cheng...
(2011) - Wind Blast (2010)
- 37 (2010)
- Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
- After This Our ExileAfter This Our ExileAfter This Our Exile is a 2006 Hong Kong film directed by Patrick Tam.-Plot:In hopeless pursuit of happiness, Shing is a man who desperately attempts to hold on to the dwindling threads of his family. Once a man who had a dream, Shing has become a deadbeat gambler whose marriage is failing with...
(父子) (2006) - All About Love (再説一次我愛你) (2005)
- Seven SwordsSeven SwordsSeven Swords is a 2005 Hong Kong wuxia film adapted from Liang Yusheng's novel Qijian Xia Tianshan. It was produced and directed by Tsui Hark, and starred Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Charlie Yeung, Sun Honglei, Lu Yi and Kim So-yeon...
(七劍) (2005) - New Police StoryNew Police StoryNew Police Story is a 2004 Hong Kong action film starring Jackie Chan and directed by Benny Chan.The film is a reboot of the Police Story series. New Police Story relies much more on drama and heavy action than its predecessors.-Plot:...
(新警察故事) (2004) - TarzanTarzan (1999 film)Tarzan is a 1999 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 18, 1999...
(1999) [voice, Cantonese dub] - Task Force (熱血最強) (1997)
- The Intimates (自梳女) (1997)
- Downtown Torpedoes (神偷諜影) (1997)
- A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark AnimationA Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark AnimationA Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation is a 1997 Hong Kong animated film. It was the first Chinese animated feature film from Hong Kong...
(小倩) (1997) [voice] - The Wedding Days (完全結婚手冊) (1997)
- Dr. Wai in "The Scripture with No Words" (冒險王) (1996)
- Young Policemen in LoveYoung Policemen in LoveYoung Policemen in Love is a 1995 Hong Kong movie directed by Chu Yin-ping.-Cast:* Takeshi Kaneshiro * Nicky Wu* Charlie Yeung* Wong Yat Fei* Yip Chuen Chan -External links:*...
(逃學戰警) (1995) - Fallen AngelsFallen Angels (1995 film)Fallen Angels is a 1995 Hong Kong movie written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Leon Lai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Michelle Reis, Charlie Yeung and Karen Mok.Fallen Angels can be seen as a companion piece to Chungking Express...
(墮落天使) (1995) - High Risk aka Meltdown (鼠膽龍威) (1995)
- Love in the Time of Twilight (花月佳期) (1995)
- How Deep Is Your Love (獨臂刀之情) (1994)
- Ashes of TimeAshes of Time-Critical:When the film opened in Hong Kong it received mixed reviews. Critics found it so elliptical that it was almost impossible to make out any semblance of a plot, something very rare in a wuxia film....
(東邪西毒) (1994) - The LoversThe Lovers (1994 film)The Lovers is a 1994 Hong Kong romance film based on the Chinese legend of the Butterfly Lovers. It was directed and produced by Tsui Hark, and starred Nicky Wu, Charlie Yeung, Elvis Tsui and Carrie Ng...
(梁祝) (1994) - What Price Survival (1994)
- Future CopsFuture CopsFuture Cops is a 1993 Hong Kong action-comedy film loosely based on the Street Fighter video game franchise.It was the first live-action film to feature characters from the Street Fighter series, the second being City Hunter starring Jackie Chan, which was also directed by Wong Jing, but released...
(超級學校霸王) (1993)
Discography
- Feeling of Love (1993)
- First Love (1994)
- Forget Me Not (1994)
- Smiling with Tears (1995)
- Mythology (1995)
- Do Whatever you Want (1996)
External links
- Charlie Yeung at IMDB
- Charlie Yeung at Stareastasia
- Charlie yeung fans club at http://charlieyoung.org 昨日今日永恆的采妮
- Hope Foundation