Ada Choi
Ada Choi Siu-fan is a Hong Kong actress. She gained recognition with films, such as Hail the Judge and A Chinese Odyssey Part Two - Cinderella, and rose to prominence with TVB dramas, such as Healing Hands and Where the Legend Begins. She shifted her career to mainland China in the 2010s, where she found success with Empresses in the Palace.
Career
Choi was born in 1973 in Hong Kong to a Chaoshanese family. Her parents divorced when she was five years old. She speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, Teochew and English. In 1989, at the persuasion of her family, Choi participated in a modeling contest held by TVB at age 15. Two years later, she was a contestant in the 1991 Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant. During the semi-finals she placed first with an overall score of 483. She eventually finished as the second runner-up during the finals. As a result, she signed a contract with TVB and starting taking on acting jobs. She won the TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actress for her performance in Secret of the Heart. Along with Maggie Cheung Ho-yee, Kenix Kwok, Flora Chan and Jessica Hsuan, Choi is known as one of the Top 5 "Fa Dans" of TVB from the mid-1990s to mid-2000s.Followed by a stalled career and limited earnings at TVB, Choi shifted her focus to mainland China in the 2010s, where she found success with the costume drama Empresses in the Palace. Since then, she appeared mainly in variety and reality shows, such as Up Idol, Run for Time, My Dearest Ladies and Viva La Romance.