Mary Jean Reimer
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Mary Jean Reimer is a Hong Kong
solicitor
also known as actress Yung Jing-Jing (not to be confused with stunt performer
and actress Yeung Jing-Jing (楊菁菁)).
Reimer was born in Vietnam
or United States
and her family moved to Hong Kong in 1965. She began her acting career with the TV series The Youth (年青人) and in 1980, she co-starred with Leslie Cheung
in Clifford Choi's youth drama Encore (喝彩). She reached her foremost fame with fantasy Wuxia
films, among which is Little Dragon Maiden
(楊過與小龍女) where she played the title character Xiaolongnü
.
Reimer ended her acting career after marriage to Lau Kar-leung
in 1984. She started to work as an insurance consultant in 1989. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong School of Professional and Continuing Education in 1996 and began her career as a solicitor. Reimer currently has her own business Reimer & Partners.
Reimer is also renowned as a TV and radio host and as a freelance writer with a newspaper column, Dangerous Persons. She has two daughters, Jeanne and Rosemary, with Lau Kar-leung.
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...
solicitor
Solicitor
Solicitors are lawyers who traditionally deal with any legal matter including conducting proceedings in courts. In the United Kingdom, a few Australian states and the Republic of Ireland, the legal profession is split between solicitors and barristers , and a lawyer will usually only hold one title...
also known as actress Yung Jing-Jing (not to be confused with stunt performer
Stunt performer
A stuntman, or daredevil is someone who performs dangerous stunts, often as a career.These stunts are sometimes rigged so that they look dangerous while still having safety mechanisms, but often they are as dangerous as they appear to be...
and actress Yeung Jing-Jing (楊菁菁)).
Reimer was born in Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
or United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and her family moved to Hong Kong in 1965. She began her acting career with the TV series The Youth (年青人) and in 1980, she co-starred with 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...
in Clifford Choi's youth drama Encore (喝彩). She reached her foremost fame with fantasy Wuxia
Wuxia
Wuxia is a broad genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of literature, its popularity has caused it to spread to diverse art forms like Chinese opera, manhua , films, television series, and video games...
films, among which is Little Dragon Maiden
Little Dragon Maiden
Little Dragon Maiden, also known as The Brave Archer 5, is a 1983 Hong Kong film adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Return of the Condor Heroes...
(楊過與小龍女) where she played the title character Xiaolongnü
Xiaolongnü
Xiaolongnü is the fictional female protagonist of Jin Yong's wuxia novel The Return of the Condor Heroes. The author describes her physical appearances as "skin as white as snow, beautiful and elegant beyond convention and cannot be underestimated, but appears cold and indifferent" .-Name:It is...
.
Reimer ended her acting career after marriage to Lau Kar-leung
Lau Kar-leung
Lau Kar-Leung is a famous Hong Kong martial arts filmmaker, choreographer, and actor.Lau Kar-Leung is best known for his movies which he made during the 1970s and 1980s for the Shaw Brothers Studio...
in 1984. She started to work as an insurance consultant in 1989. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong School of Professional and Continuing Education in 1996 and began her career as a solicitor. Reimer currently has her own business Reimer & Partners.
Reimer is also renowned as a TV and radio host and as a freelance writer with a newspaper column, Dangerous Persons. She has two daughters, Jeanne and Rosemary, with Lau Kar-leung.
External links
- Mary Jean Reimer Lau official website
- Yung Jing-Jing at the Hong Kong Movie DataBaseHong Kong Movie DatabaseThe Hong Kong Movie DataBase is a bilingual website that was created in 1995 by Ryan Law to provide a repository for information about movies originating from Hong Kong and the people that created them....
- Mary Jean Reimer at Hong Kong CinemagicHong Kong CinemagicHong Kong Cinemagic, sometimes referred to as HKCinemagic, is a bilingual website providing a repository for information about Chinese language films from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, and the people that created them. The website contains news, interviews, film reviews and a database of people,...
- Jing-Jing Yung at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...