Christy Chung (born 19 September 1970) is a former Canadian actress.
She is best known for starring in films Mermaid Got Married, The
Bodyguard from Beijing, Love on Delivery and Jan Dara.Chung was born
in Montreal to a Chinese-Vietnamese father and a native Vietnamese
mother. She grew up in Brossard, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, with
French and Vietnamese as mother-tongues. She later learned English,
Mandarin and Cantonese.While studying for a career in the tourism
industry at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), she
entered and won the Miss Chinese Montreal contest in 1992. She then
went to Hong Kong, in her first trip away from home, to participate in
the Miss Chinese International Pageant 1993, in which she won despite
not knowing a single Chinese word. This opened doors for her to launch
her acting career there, despite not speaking a word of Cantonese at
the time, and despite her extremely limited acting experience (an
uncredited ten-second non-speaking role as a gum-chewing prostitute in
Denys Arcand's Love and Human Remains). She had to choose between
acting in Hong Kong and becoming the weather-forecast presenter at
Société Radio-Canada, the French-language government television
network in Canada.A role in The Bride with White Hair 2 brought her
instant recognition, and she became a well-known star in
Chinese-language popular culture, acting in a large number of films
including some films starring Stephen Chow, as well as The Bodyguard
from Beijing starring Jet Li.
She is best known for starring in films Mermaid Got Married, The
Bodyguard from Beijing, Love on Delivery and Jan Dara.Chung was born
in Montreal to a Chinese-Vietnamese father and a native Vietnamese
mother. She grew up in Brossard, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, with
French and Vietnamese as mother-tongues. She later learned English,
Mandarin and Cantonese.While studying for a career in the tourism
industry at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), she
entered and won the Miss Chinese Montreal contest in 1992. She then
went to Hong Kong, in her first trip away from home, to participate in
the Miss Chinese International Pageant 1993, in which she won despite
not knowing a single Chinese word. This opened doors for her to launch
her acting career there, despite not speaking a word of Cantonese at
the time, and despite her extremely limited acting experience (an
uncredited ten-second non-speaking role as a gum-chewing prostitute in
Denys Arcand's Love and Human Remains). She had to choose between
acting in Hong Kong and becoming the weather-forecast presenter at
Société Radio-Canada, the French-language government television
network in Canada.A role in The Bride with White Hair 2 brought her
instant recognition, and she became a well-known star in
Chinese-language popular culture, acting in a large number of films
including some films starring Stephen Chow, as well as The Bodyguard
from Beijing starring Jet Li.
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