Miriam Yeung

Miriam Yeung
Chinese name	楊千嬅 (Traditional)
Chinese name	杨千嬅 (Simplified)
Pinyin	Yáng Qiānhuà (Mandarin)
Jyutping	Joeng4 Cin1-wa4 (Cantonese)
Ancestry	Chaozhou, Guangdong
Origin	Hong Kong
Born	February 3, 1974 (1974-02-03) (age 37) Hong Kong
Occupation	Singer, actress
Genre(s)	Cantopop
Label(s)	Capital Artists (1996-2001, 2010-present) Cinepoly Records (2001-2003 Gold Label (2003–2006)) Amusic (2007-2010)
Years active	1995–present
Spouse(s)	Real Ting (2009 - present)[1]
Official Website	www.miriamyeung.com.hk
Awards Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards Best Actress 2010 Perfect Wedding New Talent Singing Awards 1995 First Runner-up

Miriam Yeung, RN, (born February 3, 1974) is a Hong Kong actress and Cantopop singer. Before entering the entertainment business, she was a registered nurse at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Hong Kong. She studied at the Holy Family Canossian College Kowloon. She entered the entertainment industry after coming third in the TVB 14th annual New Talent Singing Awards competition in 1995,^[2] and has steadily gained popularity ever since.

Singing career

See also: List of awards received by Miriam Yeung

As a singer, Yeung has had many songs that have been mainstream hits and award winners, such as Why Aquarius (可惜我是水瓶座), Maiden's Prayer (少女的祈禱), "Sisters (姊妹), " and Small City, Important Matter (小城大事). "Small City, Important Matter" and "Maiden's Prayer" have won "Best Song of the Year Award" in 2004 and 2000. She has also been awarded with "Most Popular Female Singer", "2006 CRHK Chik Chak 903 Music Awards Favourite Female Singer", "Female Singer Golden Award", and "HK'S TOP 10 OUTSTANDING YOUTH 2005" which further attested her huge popularity.

Yeung's last album with Gold Label, "Unlimited", was released on December 15, 2006. Her music contract with Gold Label also ended on that day, and she joined Amusic soon after.

Yeung's album, Meridian, was released on August 14, 2007. All the songs that appear in the album were personally chosen by Leon Lai, as were the album's photographs.^[3]

In 2008, Yeung was asked to perform the Cantonese version of " It's A Small World" at the grand opening of It's A Small World at Hong Kong Disneyland.

After eight years, Yeung releases her third mandarin album "Ready or Not" on March 8, 2011.^[4] She got married to Real Ting in November 2010 in a purple wedding

Film career

As an actress, Yeung is known for performing in comedic films; often as a silly, naive, and clumsy girl. For example, in one of her very popular films, Love Undercover, she played a newly graduated police officer who failed every test as a cadet and had entertaining and nonsensical ways of completing her assignments. She tried different roles to good reviews both in 2003 and 2004. In Sound of Colors co-starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Yeung played a blind woman who found love in an unexpected way through a series of fate twisting events. The following year, she tried a darker role, in the Three...Extremes segment Dumplings. Yeung played Ching, a former TV actress, who fears of growing old and losing her looks, while trying to keep her cheating husband from abandoning her. She seeks out Mei (Bai Ling), who shares with Ching the horrific secret ingredient in her dumplings that keep her young. Yeung's greatest critical achievement of her acting career to date came in 2005 when she was nominated for Best Actress in Leading Role at the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards for her character, Fung Siu-Man, in the comedy Drink, Drank, Drunk.

Yeung's only film of 2006 was 2 Become 1, a "dramedy" which was released early that year. She co-starred with Taiwanese actor/singer Richie Ren for a second time, after starring with him in Elixir of Love in 2004. Yeung played Bingo, a woman who is an advertising executive that lives a somewhat carefree lifestyle. She meets a clinical psychologist, V (Richie Ren), one day, and discovers a lump on her breast. The movie chronicles her fight against breast cancer.

Yeung's next film, Hooked on You, was released on June 28, 2007 in Hong Kong. The film was directed by Law Wing-Cheong, and co-starred Eason Chan. This will also be the fourth time Yeung and Chan have collaborated with each other in a film, the first being 8 years ago in the film Rumble Ages. In Hooked On You, Yeung plays Miu, a fishmonger who sets out a plan to change her life before she turns the age of thirty. The film has been well received by critics, with LoveHKFilm.com praising "As of June 30th, it's hard to think of a 2007 Hong Kong movie that's better than this one."

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Awards
2011	The Sorcerer and the White Snake
	The Founding of a Party
2010	Perfect Wedding		Won - Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for Best Actress
	Love in a Puff		Nominated - Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress
	Here Comes Fortune
2009	ICAC Investigators 2009
2008	The Bronze Teeth IV
2007	Love At First Fight
	Hooked on You
2006	The Heavenly Kings	(cameo)
	2 Become 1
2005	Drink, Drank, Drunk
2004	My Sweetie
	Three... Extremes
	Elixir of Love
2003	Three of a Kind
	Anna in Kung-Fu Land
	Sound of Colors
	Dragon Loaded 2003
	Love Undercover 2: Love Mission
	My Lucky Star
2002	Frugal Game
	Love Undercover
	Dry Wood, Fierce Fire
2001	A Taste Of Love
	Feel 100% II
	Dummy Mommy, Without a Baby
1998	The Group

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Discography

Main article: Miriam Yeung discography

Awards

Music Awards

Main article: List of awards received by Miriam Yeung

Acting Awards

Yeung wins the Best Actress Award, her first film award, at the 17th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards in 2011.^[7]

References

1. ^ Miriam Yeung and Real Ting secretly married; Real admits, Miriam avoids
2. ^ Xinhua News. Interview with Miriam Yeung. April 18, 2005. Retrieved July 23, 2007.
3. ^ Miriam's new album released. August 18, 2007. Retrieved on August 18, 2007
4. ^ "Miriam Yeung will release brand new album March 8". Asia Pacific Arts. 03/07/2011. http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu/article@apa?miriam_yeung_will_release_brand_new_album_march_8_16474.aspx. 
5. ^ "Miriam Yeung". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1173559/. Retrieved April 5, 2010. 
6. ^ "Miriam Yeung". chinesemov.com. http://chinesemov.com/actors/Miriam.html. Retrieved April 5, 2010. 
7. ^ "Miriam Yeung wins Best Actress award in Hong Kong". Asia Pacific Arts. 02/28/2011. http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu/article@apa?miriam_yeung_wins_best_actress_award_in_hong_kong_16446.aspx. 

External links

• Miriam Yeung's Official Website
• Miriam Yeung at the Internet Movie Database

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Date of birth	February 3, 1974
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