Cecilia Cheung

Cecilia Cheung (Traditional Chinese: 張栢芝, Simplified Chinese: 张柏芝, pinyin: Zhãng Bǒ Zhī, Cantonese: Cheung Pak Zhi, born May 24, 1980) is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She is affectionately known for her husky sultry voice .

Biography

Cheung was born in Hong Kong to a Chinese father and an English-Chinese mother. Her father is an active member of a local gang. Her parents divorced when she was just a child to which after she was sent to Australia to live with her aunt at the age of fourteen. Cheung has an elder half-sister Dai Pek Chi, two younger brothers, Cheung Ho Lon (張浩龍)and Cheung Pak Man (張柏文) and also a younger half-brother from her father's side.

In 1998, while helping a hair salon friend at a catwalk show, she was noticed and offered to appear in a TV commercial advertising lemon tea. Later, Cheung made her film debut as a young nightclub hostess in Stephen Chow's The King of Comedy (1999), followed soon after by Fly Me to Polaris (1999). The latter role earned her the award for Best Newcomer at the Hong Kong Film Awards. In the same year, Cheung launched her singing career with her first Cantopop album Any Weather (1999).

For Derek Yee's romantic drama Lost in Time (2003), Cheung won Best Actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards. She played a young woman who lost her fiance to a traffic accident which left her as a grieving single mother struggling to make ends meet.

Cheung speaks Cantonese, English and Mandarin (with a strong Canton accent)

Cheung is well-known as a girl that is crazy in love. Cheung first dated Hong Kong actor and singer, Nicholas Tse in early 2002 but was then dumped by Tse late that year, when Tse got back with his ex-girlfriend, singer Faye Wong. Cheung suffered serious depression and eating disorder after the break up.

Cheung and Tse were first reported "getting back together" in early 2006 and on July 31, 2006, Tse officially admitted dating Cheung in an interview with Hong Kong commercial radio station 881/903.

In September 2006, Tse showed off his wedding ring at the Hong Kong International Airport, announcing he and Cheung were married in a secret wedding ceremony in the Philippines.

On the January 8, 2007 episode of TVB's Entertainment Scoop (東張西望), Cheung was publicly confirmed by Nicholas' father, Patrick Tse to be approximately three months pregnant with the couple's first child

Around March 2007 on the episode of TVB's Entertainment Scoop (東張西望)it is said that their child is due in August (N.B which is the same month as Tse's birthday). Rumors has it that, the couple is expecting a boy, however this is not considered as truth.

Filmography

• The 601st Phone Call (2006)
• My Kung-Fu Sweetheart (2006)
• The Shopaholics (2006)
• The Promise (2005)
• Himalaya Singh (2005)
• The White Dragon (2004)
• One Night in Mongkok (2004)
• Papa Loves You (2004) [cameo]
• Sex and the Beauties (2004)
• Fantasia (2004)
• Lost in Time (2003)
• Running on Karma (2003)
• Cat and Mouse (2003)
• Honesty (2003)
• Mighty Baby (2002)
• Second Time Around (2002)
• The Lion Roars (2002)
• The Legend of Zu (2001)
• Para Para Sakura (2001)
• Shaolin Soccer (2001) [cameo]
• Failan (2001)
• Everyday Is Valentine (2001)
• Master Q 2001 (2001)
• Wu Yen (2001)
• Twelve Nights (2000)
• Tokyo Raiders (2000)
• Help!!! (2000)
• The Legend of Speed (1999)
• Fly Me to Polaris (1999)
• The King of Comedy (1999)

Discography

• C1 (2005)
• Colour of Lip (2002)
• Shaolin Soccer (2002)
• Party All the Time (2001)
• New and Best Collection (2001)
• Party All the Time (2001)
• Cecilia Cheung (2000)
• A Brand New Me (2000)
• 903 California Red Concert (2000)
• Destination (1999)
• Any Weather (1999)

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