Charlie Yeung

Charlie Yeung Choi-Nei (born May 23, 1974), sometimes spelled Charlie Young, is a Hong Kong actress, singer and film director. She was first noticed after appearing in a jewellery commercial with Aaron Kwok. Since then she has participated in the music videos 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).

In this Chinese name, the family name is Yeung.
Charlie Yeung
楊采妮
Born
Yeung Choi-Nei

(1974-05-23) 23 May 1974
Taipei, Taiwan
OccupationSinger, actress, film director
Years active1992–present
Spouse(s)
Khoo Shao Tze
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(m. 2013)​
ChildrenIgnatius Khoo (son)
Aloysius Khoo (son)
Musical career
Also known asCharlie Young
OriginHong Kong
GenresCantopop
InstrumentsVocals
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese楊采妮
Simplified Chinese杨采妮

She retired at the height of her career in 1997, but has since returned in 2004 in New Police Story.

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 TVB 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 in 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 Yeung's most representative work to date.

Between 1994 and 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 retired from the industry to start an image consultant business with her Singaporean 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 in 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 appear in a sequel to Seven Swords. She also played the deaf love interest to Nicolas Cage in Bangkok Dangerous.

In 2006, Yeung 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".

Personal life

Yeung met her boyfriend, a Singaporean lawyer Khoo Shao Tze in 1993, but split up in 2004 for a period of time. They reportedly got back together in 2011. Yeung and Khoo were married on 2 November 2013.[1] In early January 2017, she and Khoo announced that they are expecting. On 27 April 2017, Charlie gave birth to twin boys, Ignatius and Aloysius.[2]

Filmography

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Discography
  • Feeling of Love (1993)
  • First Love (1994)
  • Forget Me Not (1994)
  • Smiling with Tears (1995)
  • Mythology (1995)
  • Do Whatever you Want (1996)

References
  1. "Star-studded ComChest Care & Share Charity Show 2014 raises over S$6m". Channel NewsAsia. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  2. "【楊采妮專訪】孖仔外貌性格全不同 楊采妮怕分心決定封肚". 明周娛樂. 2019-08-02. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
  3. "Charlie Yeung". imdb.com. Retrieved April 8, 2010.
  4. "Charlie Yeung". chinesemov.com. Retrieved April 8, 2010.
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