1. Sheren Tang is best known for her roles in the mega-hit Hong Kong TVB drama series War and Beauty, as well as La Femme Desperado, The Family Link, Rosy Business, and No Regrets, being the first Hong Kong actress to win the Best Actress Award in two consecutive years for the latter two.
Sheren Tang joined TVB in 1985, beginning her acting career as the female lead in the series Legend of the General Who Never Was.
Sheren Tang joined the television network ATV in 1996, filming several series including The Good Old Days and I Have A Date With Spring.
Sheren Tang became the first actress to win TVB's My Favourite Powerhouse Actress Award two years in a row for this role and for The Threat of Love 2.
Sheren Tang continued to outdo herself with her roles in Rosy Business and No Regrets, which won her multiple awards in various countries.
Sheren Tang has since appeared in Chinese series including New My Fair Princess and Star April before returning to Hong Kong television in 2018, filming a series for ViuTV released as Till Death Do Us Part.
Sheren Tang was born in 1966; her mother was 17 at the time.
Sheren Tang was left with her paternal grandparents as a baby and her parents divorced when she was 5 years old.
Sheren Tang attended Heep Yunn School from primary to high school.
Sheren Tang rarely saw her parents when she was growing up and credited her conversion to Christianity in 2005 in mending the estranged relationship between them later in her adulthood.
Sheren Tang was later made president of the Hong Kong Artistes Christian Fellowship where many Hong Kong artistes including her co-stars are members.
In 1984, with a nomination from Andy Lau, Sheren Tang joined TVB's 13th training course, which was the first year TVB reduced the course from one year to half a year, splitting the course into two semesters.
Sheren Tang was in the second semester along with Kitty Lai, Aaron Kwok, Maggie Shiu, and Michael Tse.
Sheren Tang would go on to play first or second leading roles in the first few years of her career, sometimes touted as Barbara Yung successor due to Sheren Tang's comparable beauty, and look.
Sheren Tang was cast in comedy series Happy Spirit where she acted alongside Carol Cheng as her younger sister.
Sheren Tang starred as Chow chi-yeuk in New Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre, the 1986 adaptation of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber novel.
Sheren Tang played Ching Yuet Yue in Police Cadet 1988, the second sequel to the widely popular Police Cadet series.
Sheren Tang had let producers know that she was interested in working with Mo if given the opportunity prior to her casting and has stated that she is extremely grateful to have been cast in the series.
Sheren Tang's first supporting role was in the 1994 series The Intangible Truth where she starred as the sister to Roger Kwok's character.
That same year, Sheren Tang played Tong Man Yung, best friend to Amy Chan's character in popular series at the time, Fate of the Clairvoyant and starred as Kam Yik Lin in the comedy Filthy Rich.
In 1995, Sheren Tang played Joyce Yan, a forensic pathologist in File of Justice IV, the fourth installment of the popular File of Justice series She starred as ICAC officer Poon Wai Yan in the female-led drama Corruption Doesn't Pay, alongside Esther Kwan and Kiki Sheung.
In 1996, Sheren Tang signed a one-year contract with ATV, filming over 200 episodes in a span of one to two years.
Sheren Tang starred in the 1996 adaptation of I Have A Date With Spring as Yiu Siu Deep.
The role is considered one of her earlier representative works in China and Sheren Tang has has appeared on dozens of variety programs and award shows performing songs from the series.
Sheren Tang reunited with costars Amy Chan, Kiki Sheung, and Maggie Shiu in one of the few popular ATV series The Good Old Days.
Sheren Tang was in the drama Interpol released in 1997.
In 1999, Sheren Tang played a supporting role in the widely popular film Fly Me to Polaris.
In 2001, Sheren Tang starred as a film director, Koi Ying-Jing in Screen Play and as Koo Yiu in the period drama Country Spirit.
Sheren Tang went on to play supporting roles in the 2002 drama Good Against Evil and 2003 teen drama Aqua Heroes.
Sheren Tang appeared as Su Tian Xin in the 2003 Taiwanese series Eternity: A Chinese Ghost Story which featured a large cast from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Sheren Tang's acting in War and Beauty as Yu Fei, an initially favoured consort who eventually falls from power, was critically acclaimed, making her a hot favourite for the "Best Actress" award in 2004.
Voting was closed the night before the awards ceremony, with Sheren Tang leading by a landslide; thus many people concluded that the "Best Actress" award would surely go to her.
Sheren Tang, instead, went home with the My Favourite Powerhouse Actress Award.
Sheren Tang's loss is considered and remembered as one of the biggest snubs in the awards show history.
Sheren Tang said that although she felt a tiny bit of disappointment at the time due to the abundance of support and stated "anyone can get affected by people's words", she said that she performed her best which audiences recognized and that is already enough for her, comparing an award to a dessert, something that is extra.
Sheren Tang expanded her career to mainland China in 2005 starring in two series.
Sheren Tang made an appearance in a flashback scene as the mother of Dragon played by Donnie Yen in the Hong Kong film Dragon Tiger Gate in 2006.
In 2006, Sheren Tang starred as a tough marketing CEO Hilda Hoi, in La Femme Desperado, which ranked number 1 in Hong Kong viewership ratings that year and won the Best Drama Award at the TVB Anniversary Awards.
Sheren Tang was nominated in the Best Actress Top 5 category and the My Favourite Female Television Role Top 5 category.
In 2007, Sheren Tang went on to star in The Family Link where she was nominated in the Best Actress Top 5 category.
Sheren Tang starred as Kelly Yim in Your Class or Mine in 2008, reuniting with her File of Justice and Screenplay costar, Bobby Au Yeung.
That same year, in addition to Rosy Business, Sheren Tang filmed two Chinese series.
However, Yeung openly said that if Sheren Tang did not get the "Best Actress" award, she would join the rest of the netizens to protest against TVB's decision.
Fortunately, this time round, with TVB producer Catherine Tsang backing her, Sheren Tang was duly awarded her "Best Actress" award, much to the joy of Hong Kong citizens, whereby there was a petition signed by them for TVB to award Sheren Tang her long-overdue "Best Actress" award, failing which they will hold protests outside TVB City, the network's headquarters.
At the 2010 TVB Anniversary Awards which was held on 5 December 2010, thanks to her brilliant performance as Cheng Gau-Mui, the complex daughter of a drug lord who plans to destroy her father's business from the inside, in the highly acclaimed indirect sequel to Rosy Business, No Regrets, Sheren Tang was seen as a hot favourite for the "Best Actress" award.
Sheren Tang's acting and the role gained even more praise and critical acclaim than Rosy Business and established Tang as one of the most talented actresses from TVB.
Sheren Tang has stated that her roles from Rosy Business and No Regrets are her favourite among all the characters she has played.
Sheren Tang clarified that she was only asked to join this series, and stated rumors of her rejecting a role in another hit series Story of Yanxi Palace were false, since she was never asked to join that series.
In 2012, Sheren Tang starred as Bai Yuqin in the historical drama Allure Snow.
Sheren Tang's contract expired with TVB after filming for the indirect sequel of War and Beauty, Beauty at War in 2012.
In mid 2013, during promotional events and interviews for the series' release, Sheren Tang spoke about the difficulty of preparation due to script delays, particularly the lack of script available even on the day of shooting, which contributed to major anxiety and some physical health problems.
Tabloids reported that this caused TVB to announce they will not renew her contract, even though Sheren Tang had previously said in 2012 before production began that the drama will be her last with the network for the time being and will be focusing her work in mainland China.
Sheren Tang has always said that she is open to returning to TVB again if there is a role right for her.
Sheren Tang took approximately two years off from acting in 2014 and 2015 to focus on her health after being diagnosed with dysautonomia and minor thyroid problems.
Sheren Tang joined Wong Cho Lam's Tailor Made Productions Limited for a year.
Sources had reported that Sheren Tang was asked to return to TVB for several dramas since 2015 after her contract ended in 2012 which included My Unfair Lady and Wonder Women, as the network tried to revamp after a couple years of low viewership and a hefty number of artistes and employees leaving.
Sheren Tang instead made an appearance as a presenter at the TVB Anniversary Awards in 2016 and appeared on a couple of the network's talk show programmes in 2017.
In 2018, Sheren Tang returned to Hong Kong television in Till Death Do Us Part with broadcaster ViuTV.
In 2021, Sheren Tang confirmed on Weibo that she has signed with Chinese management company Haohan Entertainment, with the company confirming she is part of the main cast in Chinese drama Women Walk The Line.
Sheren Tang stated over recent years that she tries to be mindful of health first, afraid of overworking herself again, and would like to read at least a partial script before taking a new role.
In September 2023, Sheren Tang revealed she had declined to take part in the fourth installment of Rosy Business No Return.
Sheren Tang clarified that the decision was unrelated to money after tabloids sparked rumours that TVB could not afford her due to her popularity in mainland China after the success of No More Bets and that her decision was made prior to the film's release.
Since May 2024, Sheren Tang plays the leading female role Shou Ma in the Chinese theatre play Crocodile, written and produced by novelist and playwright Mo Yan, who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature.