Charlie Yeung


Charlie Yeung Choi-Nei is a Hong Kong actress. She was first noticed after appearing in a commercial with Aaron Kwok. Since then she has participated in the music videos of artists such as Hacken Lee, Jacky Cheung and made a number of films, most famously with Tsui Hark and Wong Kar-wai. She retired her career in 1997, but has since returned in 2004 in New Police Story.

Career

In 1992, she signed on as a singer with EMI. After releasing a couple of albums with some success, she made her feature-film debut in Wong Kar-wai’s arthouse martial arts film Ashes of Time alongside superstars such as Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Brigitte Lin.
In 1994, she made her first collaboration with director Tsui Hark in the film The Lovers. Yeung was cast as the female lead, Zhu Yingtai opposite Nicky Wu's Liang Shanbo. Her performance received widespread critical acclaim, rising Yeung to stardom. The film today has been hailed as Yeung's most representative work to date.
However, in 1997 she retired from the industry to start an image consultant business with her Singaporean lawyer-boyfriend in Malaysia.
In 2004, she made her comeback as the lead actress in Jackie Chan's New Police Story. Following that, she collaborated once again with Tsui Hark in the martial arts movie Seven Swords and starred alongside Andy Lau in the love movie All About Love. She later co-starred in the film After This Our Exile opposite Aaron Kwok. She has made plans to appear in a sequel to Seven Swords.

Personal life

Yeung met her long-time boyfriend, a Singaporean lawyer Khoo Shao Tze in 1993, but split up in 2004 for a period of time. They reportedly got back together in 2011. Yeung and Khoo were married on 2 November 2013. In early January 2017, she and Khoo announced that they are expecting. On 27 April 2017, Charlie gave birth to twin boys, Ignatius and Aloysius.

Filmography

  • Hello Tapir
  • Little Q
  • Cold War 2
  • Kung Fu Jungle
  • Christmas Rose
  • Catching Monkey
  • Cold War
  • Floating City
  • Sleepwalker
  • Wind Blast
  • 37
  • Bangkok Dangerous
  • After This Our Exile
  • All About Love
  • Seven Swords
  • New Police Story
  • Tarzan
  • Task Force
  • The Intimates
  • Downtown Torpedoes
  • A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation
  • The Wedding Days
  • Dr. Wai in "The Scripture with No Words"
  • Young Policemen in Love
  • Fallen Angels
  • High Risk aka Meltdown
  • Love in the Time of Twilight
  • How Deep Is Your Love
  • Ashes of Time
  • The Lovers
  • What Price Survival
  • ''Future Cops''

    Discography

  • Feeling of Love
  • First Love
  • Forget Me Not
  • Smiling with Tears
  • Mythology
  • ''Do Whatever you Want''