Flora Chan
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| Chinese name | 陳慧珊 (Traditional) | ||||
| Chinese name | 陈慧珊 (Simplified) | ||||
| Pinyin | chen2 hui4 shan1 (Mandarin) | ||||
| Jyutping | can4 wai3 saan1 (Cantonese) | ||||
| Ancestry | Taishan, Guangdong | ||||
| Origin | Hong Kong | ||||
| Born | May 30, 1970 Hong Kong |
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| Occupation | Actor | ||||
| Genre(s) | Cantopop | ||||
| Instrument(s) | Singing | ||||
| Spouse(s) | Wai-ming Chung (m. 1994–2001) Mike Chung (m. 2006–present) |
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| Children | Alexandra Chung (b. 2007) | ||||
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Flora Chan Wai-Shan was born in 30 May 1970 in Hong Kong. She is a Hong Kong television and film actress.
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[edit] Biography
Chan was born in Hong Kong and emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts at a young age. As a child, she had hoped to become a dancer, but because of an injury when she was a teenager, she was forced to abandon her dreams as a professional dancer.[citation needed] She attended Boston College and earned a degree in journalism [1] before returning to Hong Kong in the early 1990s with her then-husband, Chung Wai Ming. She and her husband divorced in 2000. Chan married her manager Mike Chung Ka-Hung (鐘家鴻).
Rather than getting her start from modeling or a beauty pageant, the Miss Hong Kong Pageant, (香港小姐競選) which provides actresses for HK's television station, TVB, Chan was a reporter for the TVB English Channel - TVB Pearl. In the mid-1990s, television director Teng Dak-Hei asked her to participate in his upcoming series, the fifth installment to the popular TVB drama series, File of Justice.
Chan's performance in this series about young, yuppie lawyers caught the attention of the HK audience—and TVB. She signed on as a TVB actress and has since made other series, most notably Untraceable Evidence, playing the calm and collected forensics doctor, "Pauline Lip"; and in Healing Hands, a TVB series known for its cutting edge medical topics and its star-studded cast which included Lawrence Ng, Ada Choi, Bowie Lam and William So.
In 2002, Chan won the coveted "Most Favorite TV Actress" award presented annually by TVB. By this time in her career, Chan already starred in various TVB dramas and was known and loved by audiences for her roles as cool professionals. Chan is no longer signed on with TVB as a full-time actress. In November 2006, Chan announced she would be returning to film a TVB serial in February 2007.[2]
Chan gave birth to her baby daughter Alexandra Chung on September 16, 2007.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] TV series
| Year | Title | Role | Awards | Notes |
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| 1997 | File of Justice V | Ou Zi Keung (Catherine) | ||
| Untraceable Evidence | Nip Bo Yin (Pauline) | |||
| 1998 | Healing Hands | Kong Sun Yuet (Annie) | ||
| 1999 | Untraceable Evidence II | Nip Bo Yin (Pauline) | ||
| Feminine Masculinity | Fong Si Ching (Christine) | TVB Award for My Favourite On-Screen Partners | aka Mr. Diana | |
| Sidebeat | Kong Bik Ching | |||
| At the Threshold of an Era | Fok Hei Yin (Helen) | |||
| 2000 | At the Threshold of an Era II | Fok Hei Yin (Helen) | ||
| Healing Hands II | Kong Sun Yuet (Annie) | |||
| 2001 | A Taste of Love | Kiu Fa Chi (Joyce) | ||
| 2002 | A Case of Misadventure | Dai Fun | ||
| Burning Flame II | Ho Bo Lam (Michelle) | |||
| Family Man | Ko Pui Yi (Tracy) | TVB Award for My Favourite Actress in a Leading Role TVB Award for My Favourite Television Character |
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| 2003 | Triumph in the Skies | Lok Yi San (Isabelle) | TVB Award for My Favourite Television Character | |
| 2004 | Hard Fate | Mok Hei Yee (Tiffany) | ||
| To Get Unstuck In Time | Go San (Nicole) | |||
| Like My Own | Mabel Lim | |||
| 2005 | The Great Adventure | To Lei Kuen | aka Great Adventurer | |
| Wong Fei-Hung | 13th Aunt | aka Huang Fei Hong And Shi San Yi | ||
| Touching Venus | Wang Xiaojuan | aka Love Story of Venus aka Wei Na Si Zhi Lian |
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| 2007 | Lang Yan | Han Ye | ||
| 2010 | Suspects in Love | Cheng Siu-Yan | ||
| Du Lala's Promotion |
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1994 | Fatal Maple | Ellen | |
| 2001 | Love Au Zen | Siu Jing | |
| 2002 | Dry Wood Fierce Fire | Michelle | |
| 2006 | Undying Heart | aka Min Mie | |
| 2007 | Mad Detective | May Cheung (in Bun's eyes) | |
| 2008 | Connected | Jeannie |
[edit] Discography
- Flora Chan (2000)
- 自在 (2001)
- 愛得起 (2002)
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| Awards and achievements | ||
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| TVB Anniversary Awards | ||
| Preceded by Liza Wang for The Awakening Story |
Best Actress 2002 for Family Man |
Succeeded by Maggie Cheung Ho Yee for The King of Yesterday and Tomorrow |
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- 1970 births
- Living people
- American people of Chinese descent
- American actors of Hong Kong descent
- American expatriates in Hong Kong
- American musicians of Chinese descent
- American musicians of Hong Kong descent
- American female models
- American female singers
- American television actors
- Chinese emigrants to the United States
- Naturalized citizens of the United States
- Boston College alumni
- People from Boston, Massachusetts
- Taishanese people
- TVB actors
