33 Facts About Maggie Cheung

Maggie Cheung Man-yuk is a Hong Kong former actress.

Maggie Cheung achieved critical success in the late 1980s and into the early 2000s, before taking a break from acting following her last starring role in 2004.

Maggie Cheung rarely makes public appearances except for fashion events and award ceremonies.

Maggie Cheung has won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress 5 times in the span of 11 years from 1990 to 2001, and holds the record for most wins in that category.

Maggie Cheung holds the record for most wins for the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress in Taiwan, having won 4 times.

Maggie Cheung's most acclaimed performances include As Tears Go By, Center Stage, Green Snake, Irma Vep, Comrades: Almost a Love Story, The Soong Sisters, Hero and Clean.

Maggie Cheung was born in Hong Kong on 20 September 1964 to Shanghainese parents.

Maggie Cheung attended St Paul's Primary Catholic School in Happy Valley, where she began at the primary one level.

Maggie Cheung's family emigrated from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom when she was eight.

Maggie Cheung spent part of her childhood and adolescence in Bromley, London, England.

Maggie Cheung returned to Hong Kong at the age of 18 in 1982 for a vacation but ended up staying for modelling assignments and other commitments.

Maggie Cheung briefly had a sales job at the Lane Crawford department store.

In 1983, Maggie Cheung entered the Miss Hong Kong pageant and won the first runner-up and the Miss Photogenic award as well.

Maggie Cheung was a semi-finalist in the Miss World pageant the same year.

Maggie Cheung is a polyglot as a result of her upbringing in Hong Kong and England and ten years' stay in Paris.

In Center Stage, Maggie Cheung performed in Cantonese, Mandarin, and Shanghainese fluently, switching languages with ease.

Maggie Cheung got this opportunity when Wong Kar-wai cast her in As Tears Go By, her first of many collaborations with Wong.

Maggie Cheung often cites the film as the piece that truly began her serious acting career, and she won critical praise for it.

Maggie Cheung subsequently proved her versatility with roles in action films.

Also in a departure from her usual roles, Maggie Cheung played a beautiful and vicious femme fatale in New Dragon Gate Inn.

Maggie Cheung returned to Hong Kong to film In the Mood for Love, which won critical acclaim and a second Taiwanese Golden Horse award for Cheung.

Maggie Cheung won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role as a mother who tries to kick her drug habit and reconcile with her long-lost son in Clean.

Maggie Cheung was a jury member at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival, the 1999 Venice Film Festival, the 2004 Hawaii International Film Festival, the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, and the 2010 Marrakech International Film Festival.

Maggie Cheung had mentioned she would like to compose music and paint after having fulfilled her acting potential.

Maggie Cheung retired from acting in 2013 and has since kept a low profile.

Maggie Cheung has provided celebrity endorsement for Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.

In May 2014, Maggie Cheung performed at the 2014 Shanghai Strawberry Music Festival.

In June 2019, during a guest appearance on Mango TV reality show Master In The House in which she mentored boyband Next, Maggie Cheung spoke frankly about her 2014 performance's poor reception.

In 2015, Maggie Cheung composed and performed the theme song "If You Were Gone" for the anthology film Cities in Love.

In June 2022, Maggie Cheung performed a DJ set at the grand opening of a new Gucci store at The Landmark in Hong Kong.

Maggie Cheung married French director Olivier Assayas in 1998; they divorced in 2001.

Maggie Cheung began a relationship with German architect Ole Scheeren in 2007, but the relationship ended in 2011.

Maggie Cheung has been rumoured to have been romantically involved with In the Mood for Love co-star Tony Leung, who is married to fellow actor Carina Lau.