1. Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi is a Hong Kong actress and singer.
23 Facts About Cecilia Cheung
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Cecilia Cheung was born on 24 May 1980 at Man Wah Sun Chuen, Jordan, Hong Kong to Davies Shally, who is of half Chinese and half British descent, and Cecilia Cheung Yan-yung, a triad member who is known as Bearded Bravery or Bearded Yung.
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Cecilia Cheung's parents divorced when she was nine years old.
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Cecilia Cheung has an elder half-sister, two younger brothers, and a younger half-brother from her father's side.
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In 1998, Cecilia Cheung was cast in a television commercial advertising lemon tea, which caught the attention of Stephen Chow.
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Cecilia Cheung made her film debut as a call girl in Chow's King of Comedy, which became the highest grossing local film of the year and shot Cecilia Cheung to fame.
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Cecilia Cheung then starred in Fly Me to Polaris, for which she sang the theme song.
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Cecilia Cheung was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 19th Hong Kong Film Awards for both King of Comedy and Fly Me to Polaris, and won for the latter.
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Cecilia Cheung made inroads into the Korean market with Failan co-starring Choi Min-shik.
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Cecilia Cheung then starred opposite Louis Koo in the comedy film The Lion Roars, for which she won the Most Popular Actress award at the Chinese Film Media Awards.
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Cecilia Cheung reunited with Louis Koo in Derek Yee's film Lost in Time, for which she won the Best Actress award at the Hong Kong Film Awards.
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Cecilia Cheung followed with crime thriller One Nite in Mongkok by Derek Yee, where she played a prostitute who crosses paths with an assassin.
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Cecilia Cheung was nominated for the Best Actress award at the Hong Kong Film Awards for the third time.
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Cecilia Cheung played old Shanghai diva Zhou Xuan in TV series The Wandering Songstress, after which she took a break from acting and gave birth to two sons.
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Cecilia Cheung made a comeback in 2010, but her films were commercially and critically unsuccessful.
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Since then, Cecilia Cheung switched her career focus to variety shows in mainland China.
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Cecilia Cheung has earned 70 million HKD in 2014, ranking number nine in the top ten list of Hong Kong's highest celebrity incomes in 2014.
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In early 2021, Cecilia Cheung joined the second season of Chinese reality series Sisters Who Make Waves.
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Cecilia Cheung dated Hong Kong star Daniel Chan from 1999 to 2001, after which she was romantically linked to Jordan Chan and Edison Chen.
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Cecilia Cheung married Hong Kong star Nicholas Tse in the Philippines in September 2006.
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Cecilia Cheung gave birth to their first son in August 2007 and second son in May 2010.
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On 18 November 2018, Cecilia Cheung announced that she had given birth to a third son, but the father of her son remains unknown.
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In March 2020, Cecilia Cheung voiced her support for Xinjiang cotton after several international companies announced that they will no longer purchase cotton from the region due to concerns over Uyghur human rights.