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| Miriam Yeung | |||||||||
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| Chinese name | 楊千嬅 (Traditional) | ||||||||
| Chinese name | 杨千嬅 (Simplified) | ||||||||
| Pinyin | Yáng Qiānhuà (Mandarin) | ||||||||
| Jyutping | Joeng4 Cin1-wa4 (Cantonese) | ||||||||
| Ancestry | Chaozhou, Guangdong | ||||||||
| Origin | Hong Kong | ||||||||
| Born | February 3, 1974 Hong Kong |
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| Occupation | Singer, actress | ||||||||
| Genre(s) | Cantopop | ||||||||
| Instrument(s) | Singing, piano, guitar | ||||||||
| Label(s) | Capital Artists (1996-2001, 2010-present) Cinepoly Records (2001-2003 Gold Label (2003–2006)) Amusic (2007-2010) |
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| Years active | 1995–present | ||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Real Ting (2009 - present)[1] | ||||||||
| Official Website | www.miriamyeung.com.hk | ||||||||
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Miriam Yeung, RN, (born February 3, 1974) is a Hong Kong actress and Cantopop singer. Before entering the entertainment business, she was a registered nurse at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Hong Kong. She studied at the Holy Family Canossian College Kowloon. She entered the entertainment industry after coming third in the TVB 14th annual New Talent Singing Awards competition in 1995,[2] and has steadily gained popularity ever since.
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[edit] Singing career
As a singer, Yeung has had many songs that have been mainstream hits and award winners, such as Why Aquarius (可惜我是水瓶座), Maiden's Prayer (少女的祈禱), "Sisters (姊妹), " and Small City, Important Matter (小城大事). "Small City, Important Matter" and "Maiden's Prayer" have won "Best Song of the Year Award" in 2004 and 2000. She has also been awarded with "Most Popular Female Singer", "2006 CRHK Chik Chak 903 Music Awards Favourite Female Singer", "Female Singer Golden Award", and "HK'S TOP 10 OUTSTANDING YOUTH 2005" which further attested her huge popularity.
Yeung's last album with Gold Label, "Unlimited", was released on December 15, 2006. Her music contract with Gold Label also ended on that day, and she joined Amusic soon after.
Yeung's album, Meridian, was released on August 14, 2007. All the songs that appear in the album were personally chosen by Leon Lai, as were the album's photographs.[3]
In 2008, Yeung was asked to perform the Cantonese version of " It's A Small World" at the grand opening of It's A Small World at Hong Kong Disneyland.
After eight years, Yeung releases her third mandarin album "Ready or Not" on March 8, 2011.[4] She got married to Real Ting in November 2010 in a purple wedding
[edit] Film career
As an actress, Yeung is known for performing in comedic films; often as a silly, naive, and clumsy girl. For example, in one of her very popular films, Love Undercover, she played a newly graduated police officer who failed every test as a cadet and had entertaining and nonsensical ways of completing her assignments. She tried different roles to good reviews both in 2003 and 2004. In Sound of Colors co-starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Yeung played a blind woman who found love in an unexpected way through a series of fate twisting events. The following year, she tried a darker role, in the Three...Extremes segment Dumplings. Yeung played Ching, a former TV actress, who fears of growing old and losing her looks, while trying to keep her cheating husband from abandoning her. She seeks out Mei (Bai Ling), who shares with Ching the horrific secret ingredient in her dumplings that keep her young. Yeung's greatest critical achievement of her acting career to date came in 2005 when she was nominated for Best Actress in Leading Role at the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards for her character, Fung Siu-Man, in the comedy Drink, Drank, Drunk.
Yeung's only film of 2006 was 2 Become 1, a "dramedy" which was released early that year. She co-starred with Taiwanese actor/singer Richie Ren for a second time, after starring with him in Elixir of Love in 2004. Yeung played Bingo, a woman who is an advertising executive that lives a somewhat carefree lifestyle. She meets a clinical psychologist, V (Richie Ren), one day, and discovers a lump on her breast. The movie chronicles her fight against breast cancer.
Yeung's next film, Hooked on You, was released on June 28, 2007 in Hong Kong. The film was directed by Law Wing-Cheong, and co-starred Eason Chan. This will also be the fourth time Yeung and Chan have collaborated with each other in a film, the first being 8 years ago in the film Rumble Ages. In Hooked On You, Yeung plays Miu, a fishmonger who sets out a plan to change her life before she turns the age of thirty. The film has been well received by critics, with LoveHKFilm.com praising "As of June 30th, it's hard to think of a 2007 Hong Kong movie that's better than this one."
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Awards |
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| 2011 | The Sorcerer and the White Snake | ||
| The Founding of a Party | |||
| 2010 | Perfect Wedding | Won - Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for Best Actress | |
| Love in a Puff | Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress | ||
| Here Comes Fortune | |||
| 2009 | ICAC Investigators 2009 | ||
| 2008 | The Bronze Teeth IV | ||
| 2007 | Love At First Fight | ||
| Hooked on You | |||
| 2006 | The Heavenly Kings | (cameo) | |
| 2 Become 1 | |||
| 2005 | Drink, Drank, Drunk | ||
| 2004 | My Sweetie | ||
| Three... Extremes | |||
| Elixir of Love | |||
| 2003 | Three of a Kind | ||
| Anna in Kung-Fu Land | |||
| Sound of Colors | |||
| Dragon Loaded 2003 | |||
| Love Undercover 2: Love Mission | |||
| My Lucky Star | |||
| 2002 | Frugal Game | ||
| Love Undercover | |||
| Dry Wood, Fierce Fire | |||
| 2001 | A Taste Of Love | ||
| Feel 100% II | |||
| Dummy Mommy, Without a Baby | |||
| 1998 | The Group |
[edit] Discography
[edit] Awards
[edit] Music Awards
[edit] Acting Awards
Yeung wins the Best Actress Award, her first film award, at the 17th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards in 2011.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ Miriam Yeung and Real Ting secretly married; Real admits, Miriam avoids
- ^ Xinhua News. Interview with Miriam Yeung. April 18, 2005. Retrieved July 23, 2007.
- ^ Miriam's new album released. August 18, 2007. Retrieved on August 18, 2007
- ^ "Miriam Yeung will release brand new album March 8". Asia Pacific Arts. 03/07/2011. http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu/article@apa?miriam_yeung_will_release_brand_new_album_march_8_16474.aspx.
- ^ "Miriam Yeung". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1173559/. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ^ "Miriam Yeung". chinesemov.com. http://chinesemov.com/actors/Miriam.html. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
- ^ "Miriam Yeung wins Best Actress award in Hong Kong". Asia Pacific Arts. 02/28/2011. http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu/article@apa?miriam_yeung_wins_best_actress_award_in_hong_kong_16446.aspx.
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