Gloria Yip

Infobox Chinese-language singer and actor
name = Gloria Yip Wan-Yee

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simpchinesename = 叶蕴仪
pinyinchinesename = Ye Yun-Yi
jyutpingchinesename = Yip Wan-Yee
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nationality = Hong Kong
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ancestry = Guangdong Tsing Yuenese
origin = Hong Kong
birthdate = January 13, 1973 (age 35)
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zodiac = Rat
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language = Cantonese Standard Mandarin Japanese English
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education = Saint Ma Jiali Women's Academy Causeway Bay School Hong Kong Art School
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occupation = actor, singer, sculptor
genre = Cantopop, Mandopop
instrument = voice
voicetype = mezzo-soprano
label = Music Impact
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yearsactive = 1988-1995
2001-present
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spouse = 陳柏浩 (Chen Baihao) (1995-2000) (divorced)
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children = 2 (紹臻/Shaoyen and 衍衍/Yanyan)
parents = Yip Shao, Yip Fu
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Gloria Yip Wan-Yee (zh-c|c=葉蘊儀, born January 13, 1973 in Hong Kong, the elder of two sisters and daughter of prominent businessman Yip Shao) is a Hong Kong actress and singer of Guangdong ancestry, best known for her four films with director Lam Ngai Kai, and to Western audiences, her "special appearance" in Lam's "" and principal supporting role in the cult classic [John Charles, "Video Watchdog" #40, page 64: "Saviour of the Soul" has developed a cult following for its sensational action sequences, which feature futuristic weapons like "The Breathless Bullet," a projectile that sucks all the atmosphere out of rooms (an effect accomplished by having all the color drain out of the image)." A recent DVD release quoted him with the paraphrase "A Cult classic."] "Saviour of the Soul". Among her more frequent collaborators are Yuen Biao, Lai Kai Ming, and Wong Jing. Her early roles were primarily cute and comedic, while her more recent, post-divorce roles, have primarily been dramatic.

She was discovered as a teenager by a Japanese talent scout. Like many movie stars in Hong Kong, she has also pursued a career as a singer, touring in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, and she has released more than half a dozen CDs. [http://www.abcde.com.hk/gloria/profile.html (in Chinese)]

In her homeland, she retains a reputation for wholesomeness, and the philandering of her husband, leading to a divorce in 2000, caused a media stir. While she was married, she went into semi-retirement, enjoyed being a mother, and pursued interests in arts and crafts, primarily embroidery and clay sculpture. She graduated from Hong Kong Art School in 2008.

She is fluent in Cantonese, Japanese, Putonghua, and English and is a fan of Jackie Chan (with whom she has worked), Tom Cruise, Rie Miyazawa, and Madonna.English-language bio screen, "Saga of the Phoenix" DVD, Universe Laser & Video] Her roles in "Mark Six Comedy" and "Boxer's Story" include brief passages of English dialogue.

Discovery by talent scout

During secondary school at Saint Ma Jiali Women's Academy, she went to Japan, and was discovered by a talent scout. She was only thirteen (though she claimed at the time to be fourteen), took a Japanese name, and appeared in television commercials for McDonald's and TDK. Her career continued from there. In 1987, at age 14, she appeared in the play, 呷醋大丈夫 ("The Real Man Sips the Vinegar"). [http://ueno.cool.ne.jp/sankyoh/profile.htm (in Japanese)] At age 19, she appeared in another play, 洗腳水 ("The Water for Foot Washing") (1992).http://big5.cri.cn/gate/big5/gb.cri.cn/9964/2006/11/13/114@1299634_4.htm (in Chinese)]

Film career: first phase

She frequently appears in comedian supporting roles, such as Su Rongrong (known simply as "Ron" in the English subtitles), an acrobatic acupuncturist in "The Legend of the Liquid Sword", or the just slightly-too-young bounty hunter Fung Ling ("Little Bewitchment") in "Flying Dagger". Her most noted role is Ashura the Hell Virgin, a major supporting role in "Peacock King", which is usually cited as her screen debut at age 15. [English-language bio screen, "Saga of the Phoenix" DVD, Universe Laser & Video. It should be noted that "Chicken and Duck Talk" premiered in July 1988 and "Peacock King" in December 1988, but the latter, being a special effects film, probably took longer to complete. Also, in the former, she is seventeenth billed, has no lines, and has less than a minute of screen time.] ) and a starring role in "Saga of the Phoenix". This role is also quite comic and often slapstick. She plays a mischievous but essentially innocent offspring of devils. She possesses great power, but essentially as a vessel for others to wield, or for her to use when she is not really trying, and thus she is a source of great danger without any malice. In both films, her character is redeemed when she helps her friends Peacock King/Kujaku (Yuen Biao) and Lucky Fruit (played by different actors in the two films), who act as her guardians, destroy major demons. The role was more demanding in the second film, in which her childlike innocence and mischief is somewhat quelled by a mystical death sentence that attacks her like a disease.

Released half a year prior to "Peacock King" was the multi-award-winning comedy, "Chicken and Duck Talk". Her role is limited to less than a minute of screen time, playing Judy, friend of Michael Hui's son. Judy is referred to several times, is glimpsed briefly in David's Chicken, and appears in the duck restaurant at the film's finale, and never speaks, though she is spoken to. In "Demoness from Thousand Years", she appears only at the beginning and end of the film and is listed twelfth in the screen credits, though promotional materials, including the DVD cover, feature her prominently and give her second billing. Her character, Siu-Yi, carries the weight of a second lead in her included scenes as companion to Yun Yu-Yi (Joey Wang), but is unconscious throughout most of the film's narrative, being frozen in the pre-credits sequence and revived during the climax, communicating with Yu-Yi through a television set, and appearing as a doll vendor in the last scene. Prior to these roles, she appeared in the 22 October 1987 and 11 November 1997 episodes of the television series, "Goodbye Darling".http://ueno.cool.ne.jp/sankyoh/movies1.htm (in Japanese)]

She often plays roles that are younger than she is in real life, abetted by the fact that she is just under 5'2". In "Saviour of the Soul", she played Andy Lau's 12 year-old kid sister, Wai Heung, who is enamored with baseball, when she was eighteen.

Her other roles include the young bride, Belle Kao, in Jackie Chan's "Miracle", in which much of the film's narrative is driven by her character's wedding; Gucci (an aplomb and witty bank robbery hostage) in "The Blue Jean Monster", the mysterious Alien Girl in "The Cat", Ann in "Pink Bomb", and a cameo as Ricki's murdered girlfriend, Ying, in "". Of all her films, "Story of Ricky" (as it was known in English in Hong Kong) has received the widest release in the United States, thanks to promotion by Comedy Central, although its Category III rating made it a minor film in Hong Kong.

Marriage, retirement, and arts and crafts

Her goal was to make a film that she herself would particularly like, and as such she is not particularly prolific as Hong Kong film actors go. She retired from the screen after appearing in the 1994 film, "The Gods Must Be Crazy V: The Gods Must Be Funny in China", to get married to toy businessman 陳柏浩 (Chen Baihao) on May 25, 1995, and the birth of a son, 陳紹臻 (Chen Shaozhen), followed in February, 1996. The couple had a daughter, 陳衍衍 (Chen Yanyan), whose name translates "Spread Out," November 30, 1999.

Yip continued to appear on television to demonstrate her hobby of embroidery, and she also wrote a magazine column on arts and crafts. In 1997, she enrolled at Causeway Bay School to study clay sculpture. [http://www.mingpaosf.com/htm/News/20070215/HK-mca1.htm Article by Kei Mei in Chinese] She graduated from Hong Kong Art School on January 27, 2008, [http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/gloriayip_hkcca/article?mid=143 (in Chinese) ] with her porcelain thesis work, 戀物/"Materialism" (2007). [http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/gloriayip_hkcca/article?mid=147 (in Chinese)]

Divorce and return to film

In January 2000, Yip and Chen were divorced at Chen's suggestion after he had an extramarital affair and was visiting brothels. She returned to the screen in 2001 with a cameo role in "Heroes in Love" after Chen failed to pay her allowances. [ [http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=279 Hong Kong Cinemagic - Gloria Yip Wan Yi ] ] [http://gd.sohu.com/20041227/n223660697.shtml (in Chinese)] Details of the affair were exposed to the media in 2002, including Yip publishing excerpts from her own diary concerning her feelings.. After nearly a ten-year absence, Yip had the leading role in the horror film, "Death Melody" (2003), followed by another horror film, "Double Face Girl". She also returned to stage plays.

During this later period, she has largely abandoned her comedic persona. In 2004, while "Mark Six Comedy" places her in a comic foil role as the manager (named Gloria [spelled "Goria" in the only two subtitles that name her, but contradicted by the attempts at proper pronunciation on the soundtrack] ) of an office of immature twentysomethings, deriving humor though being serious, in both "Boxer's Story", a drama, and "Osaka Wrestling Restaurant", a comedy, she plays serious roles as ex-wives of unsuccessful men, each with a son. In the latter film, she is not involved in any of the comic antics whatsoever, and structurally, her role, a "special appearance" with only four scenes, is designed to give the film an emotional core it might otherwise lack. In the former film, she plays the ex-wife of a character played by Yuen, and much of the film is about regaining her son now that she is married to a cardiologist and has a successful career of her own in automotive sales, primarily to English-speaking clients. In "Breezy Summer", her role, again eponymous, is a tragic performance.

Later that year, she was reunited with "Story of Ricky" star Terry Fan Siu Wong and "The Cat" star Christine Ng in the television miniseries, "Magic Sword of Heaven and Earth", as the goddess Guanyin, which aired in 2005. This role, again serious, is a figure of divine intervention at the second act turning point, and a brief visit in the film's finale. Most of these were low budget productions shot on digital video rather than on film.

In 2007, she appeared in "Magic Boy".

Discography

The musicians who perform with Gloria Yip on her albums include Ricky Ho, Belinda Foo, Iskandar Ismail (keyboards), Eddie Marzuki, Jonathan Koh, Shah Tahir (guitars), Stephen Rufus (saxophone), Larry Lai (flute), and Jimmy Lee (cymbals). The songs are composed by many different people, as are the lyrics, though Yip sometimes writes her own lyrics, such as for "請你等等" ("Invites You and So On...").

*"Gloria Yip"
*"Ashura"
*"S.O.S."
*"Seoul"
*欺騙你的心/"Cheat Your Heart" (March 1992) [http://tw.mojim.com/tw05033.htm lyrics]
*" "(September 1992)
*"Don't Hurt Me If You Love Me" (April 1993)
*"Have You Ever Thought About Me?" (October 1993)
*真的愛我就不要讓我傷心/"Really Likes Me not Likely to Make Me Sad" [single] [http://tw.mojim.com/tw05031.htm lyrics]
*諾言/"Promise" (November 1993) (94931-2) [http://tw.mojim.com/tw05035.htm lyrics]
*"Truly Clean" (1994) (97129-2 MIM-9416C)
*是你答應說要對我好/"Were You Insisting That Must Be Good for Me?" (5/1994) [http://tw.mojim.com/tw05034.htm lyrics]
*把我放在心裡頭/Places in My Heart (11/1994) [compilation] [http://tw.mojim.com/tw05032.htm lyrics]

Filmography

"(in order of earliest release (when dates are available))"

The official English titles of the first three and are essentially literal translations. Otherwise, translations are provided when available.

*"Goodbye Darling" (10-11/1987 TV episodes)
*雞同鴨講 "Gai tung aap gong"/"Chicken and Duck Talk" (7/1988) ... Judy
*孔雀王子 "Hung cheuk wong ji"/"Peacock King" (12/1988) ... Ashura
*奇蹟 "Ji Ji"/"Miracles" (6/1989) ... Belle Kao
*阿修羅 "A Xiu-lo" (Ashura)/"Saga of the Phoenix" (2/1990) ... Ashura
*香港パラダイス/"Hong Kong Paradise" (4/1990) ... Chin's Assistant
*祝福 "Zhu Fu" (Wishing Luck)/"Promising Miss Bowie" (6/1990) ... Pinky (Bowie's niece)
*千年女妖 "Chin nin lui yiu" (Thousand Year Female Monster)/"Demoness from Thousand Years" (9/1990) ... Siu-Yi
*力王 "Lik wong" (Strength King)/"" (4/1991) ... Ying (Ricky's girlfriend)
*著牛仔褲的鍾馗 "Jeuk ngau jai foo dik Jung Kwai" (Jeans of Jung Kwai) ["Ngau jai foo" literally translates to something like "cow youth trousers."] /"The Blue Jean Monster" (5/1991) ... Gucci
*豪門夜宴 "Haomen yeyan" (Rich and Powerful Family Evening Banquet)/"The Banquet" (11/1991) ... Party Guest
*九一神鵰俠侶 "Gau yat: San diu hap lui" ('91 God Eagle Hero Couple)/"Saviour of the Soul" (12/1991) ... Wai Heung (Benefit Fragrance)
*新孖寶妙探 "Jeung Bo Miu Taam" (New Valuable Twin Searches Marvelously)/"The New Marvelous Double" (9/1992)
*衛斯理之老貓 "Wai Si Li zhi Lao Mao" (Wisely's Old Cat)/Wisely in "The Cat" (10/1992) ... Alien Girl
*愛情戀曲 (Sentimental Love Tune)/"The Modern Love Story" (11/1992) (TV series)http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://ueno.cool.ne.jp/sankyoh/movies2.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://ueno.cool.ne.jp/sankyoh/movies2.htm%26num%3D50%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7SUNA]
*霧都情仇 "Wu du qing chou" (Fog Rival in Love)/"Misty" (11/1992)
*笑俠楚留香 "Siu hap Cho Lau Heung" (Smiling Hero Cho Lau Heung)/"The Legend of the Liquid Sword" (3/1993) ... Su Rongrong "Ron"
*人生得意衰盡歡 "Ren sheng de yi shuai jin huan" (The Life Is Self-Satisfying, Fading, Having a Good Time)/"Pink Bomb" (3/1993) ... Ann
*神經刀與飛天貓 "Shen Jing Dao yu Fei Tian Mao" (Nerve Knife and Flying Cat Apsara)/"Flying Dagger" (5/1993) ... Fung Ling (Little Bewitchment)
*"Democrats" (1993) (TV series)http://ueno.cool.ne.jp/sankyoh/movies2.htm (in Japanese)]
*開心華之裡 (Happy in China)/"Mind Our Own Business" (1993) (TV series) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp8IVWyXLQs (in Chinese)] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjORF3nEKPg (in Chinese)]
*非洲超人 "Fei zhou chao ren" (Africa Exceeds Others in Ability)/"The Gods Must Be Crazy V: The Gods Must Be Funny in China" (3/1994)
*"Length Further Information and Length" (4/1994) TV series
*包青天I "Bao Qing Tian"/"Justice Pao" (5/1995) (TV series)
*戀愛起義 "Lian'ai qiyi" (Love Revolt)/"Heroes in Love" (4/2001) [ [http://sensasian.com/catalog.php/movies/a-actor/p-1115/ Free Shipping on Chinese movies DVD, Hong Kong movies DVD, Japanese movies DVD, Korean movies DVD, Shaw Brothers movies, TV series VCD DVD ] ]
*星光伴我行 (The Star Light Accompanies My Line)/"Starry Journey" (2001) TV episode .... Documentary; Gloria Yip explores Thailand [http://ueno.cool.ne.jp/sankyoh/xing.htm (in Japanese)]
*雪地裡的星星 (Stars in Snowy Area)/Starry Starry Night... (2001) (TV series) ... Oncologist [http://ueno.cool.ne.jp/sankyoh/xue.htm (in Japanese)] [http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/aid-11627/section-videos/code-c/version-all/pid-1002316594/ (in Chinese)]
*愛情白皮書寫真樂譜集 (Love White Paper Portrait Music Collection)/"Tomorrow Photo Album" (8/2002) (TV series) [http://ueno.cool.ne.jp/sankyoh/aiqing.htm (in Japanese)] [http://us.yesasia.com/b5/artIdxDept.aspx/code-c/section-posters/aid-39303/ (in Chinese)] [ [http://us.yesasia.com/en/artIdxDept.aspx/code-c/section-posters/aid-39303/ YESASIA: Eddie Peng Yu Yan - All Products - - Free Shipping - North America Site ] ]
*連鎖奇幻檔案之死亡音樂 (Chain-Like Wonderful Imaginary Files of Killer Sheet Music)/"Death Melody" (2003) ... Xiao Xue
*傷生兒 (Is Injurious to Life)/"Double Face Girl" (2003) ... Tung
*多重彩 (Multi-Serious Wounds)/"Mark Six Comedy" (2003) ... Gloria
*賊盗将軍 "Zeidao Jiangjun"/"Thieves Steal the Generals" (2004) (TV Series)
*赤子拳王 "Chek ji kuen wong" (Newborn Baby Boxing Champion)/"Boxer's Story" (2004) ... Susan
*夏之春 (Spring of the Summer)/"Breezy Summer" (2004) ... Gloria
*大阪撻一餐 "Daai Baan Taat Yat Chaan" (Osaka Flogs One Meal)/"Osaka Wrestling Restaurant" (5/2004) ... Maye
*天地神劍 "Tian di shen jian" (World God Sword)/"Magic Sword of Heaven and Earth" (2005) (TV) ... Goddess Guanyin (Episodes VII, VIII, X)
* 魔術男 "Mor suit nam"/"Magic Boy" (2007)

References

External links

* [http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/gloriayip-arts Gloria Yip's blog on the arts] (parts in Chinese; parts in English)
* [http://www.gloriayip.com GloriaYip.com designed by Elvis Choi]
* [http://www.geocities.com/yeungpoki/profile3.html Profile in English]
* [http://tw.mojim.com/twh0503.htm Gloira Yip lyrics] (in Chinese)
* [http://akas.imdb.com/name/nm0948124/ Gloria Yip on] The Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.hkdvdheaven.co.uk/GloriaYip.htm Gloria Yip on hkdvdheaven]
* [http://www.lovehkfilm.com/people/yip_gloria.htm Gloria Yip on LoveHKFilm]
* [http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=7503&display_set=eng Gloria Yip on the Hong Kong Movie Database]
* [http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=279 Gloria Yip on Hong Kong Cinemagic]
* [http://ueno.cool.ne.jp/sankyoh/index.htm Japanese fan site]
*On Youtube:
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftk6-kVAWPc Gloria Yip sings "真的愛我就不要讓我傷心/Ceng te ai wo ciu pu yau jan wo sang sin" music video with transliterated lyrics]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiUXMVyqOAY singing "Ashura" (Saga of the Phoenix title song)]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhBl52Yz-gw Gloria Yip singing "真的愛我就不要讓我傷心" on TV]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggV-qqVQMfg Gloria Yip singing "真的愛我就不要讓我傷心" July 18, 1993]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNlMaUG-i2w Gloria Yip "哪兒？" music video]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63vWeuQdKyM Live performance of "可否想起我(現場演唱版)" from the "Cheat Your Heart" album]
* [http://www.abcde.com.hk/gloria/ Gloria's hands] (official site, in Chinese)

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NAME = Yip, Gloria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Yip, Wan-Yee
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Hong Kong actor and singer
DATE OF BIRTH = 13 January 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH = Hong Kong
DATE OF DEATH =
PLACE OF DEATH =