- Xiang Yun
Xiang Yun (zh-sp|s=向云|p=Xiàng Yún; born
27 October 1961 as Chen Cuichang (陈翠嫦)) is aSingapore an actress fromMediaCorp . Considered one of the veterans in the station with 27 years of acting in the Singapore entertainment industry, she was also deemed the TV station's first "Ah jie" (eldest sister) beforeZoe Tay came into the pictureHer Life
In
1989 , she marriedMediacorp actor,Edmund Chen . She gave birth to a son and a daughter in the year 1991 and 2000 respectively. In 2002, they retook their marriage vows to reaffirm their love and renewed stability within their marriage.Career
She is now still popular despite her age and often cast in major roles in many of Mediacorp's large-scale productions, such as "Double Happiness" in 2004, "
Portrait of Home " in 2005 and "Kinship".She was voted the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes in the annualStar Awards from Year 2000-2007, and won the Best Supporting Actress in Years 1998, 2000 and 2001. She was also awarded the Evergreen Veteran award in 2007. She was nominated for the "Best Actress" award inStar Awards 2004 for her role "Luo Jia Xi", a fierce and unreasonable woman in "Double Happiness". That was her first "Best Actress" nomination in her 24 year career. Other than fellow actressHuang Biren , she was the other favourite to win the "Best Actress" award. But eventually, Ivy Lee bagged the award instead.She is one of the few actresses to make it to the silver screen, with prominent roles in Jack Neo movies "
I Not Stupid " (as a mother who is very demanding of her child), "Homerun" (as a pregnant mother) and "I Not Stupid Too " (as the same mother in "I Not Stupid" who cannot communicate with her two children).
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