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Moon Lee
李賽鳳Born 14 February 1965
Hong KongOccupation actress Website Moon Lee's Sina blog site Moon Lee (Chinese: 李賽鳳; Cantonese Jyutping: Li Choi-Fung, Hanyu Pinyin: Li Sai-Feng, born 14 February 1965) is a former Hong Kong actress who frequently played roles related to the action and martial arts genre in TV serials and films. She was particularly notable in the sub-genre known as girls with guns.
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Biography
From age 6 to 12, Moon lived in Kaohsiung, Taiwan for 6 years with her father, who had business there. She attended Youchang Elementary School. During her stay in Taiwan, she learned mandarin Chinese and developed her piano and dance expertise. As a result, she often had performances.
When she first returned to Hong Kong to attend middle school, her Cantonese was not perfect and she was sort of rustic. At age 15, Moon was accidentally discovered by a television director, Hsiao Hsianhui, during a school dancing performance. She was recommended to play a role in a television series 《Fatherland》. Since the play did not require too much of her time and she could still study at school, her parents agreed to let her play. In the series, she was a country girl, by the name of A Mun, who looked just like Moon. Ever since then, people liked to call her A Mun. Her performance in the series was so impressive that she began her career as an actress. Since she has been practicing dances from her childhood, it is easy for her to perform action movies with her agile and flexible movements. After her first martial art movie in ancient costumes《Zu Warriors from the magic Mountain》， she has not left the stage of action movies.
At 18, freshly graduated from middle school, she signed contracts with both Asian TV Station and Golden Harvest. Lee Choi Fung was sent to Japan to make an advertisement for Mitsubishi automobile company. The company asked her to pick an English name. She chose Moon, as the pronunciation of Mn in Cantonese is close to the English word, Moon.
She played in many television series, exceeding 400 episodes. Subsequently she focused her efforts wholly on movies, mostly action movies.
In the late 90s, she gradually left the movie field and was passionately involved in the promotion of the art of dance and established a dancing school to cultivate talented dancers. Her students won excellent awards in Hong Kong dance competitions.
Stunt accident
While performing the final stunt in Devil Hunters (1989), Moon sustained a third degree burn. Moon was supposed to jump off a window from a second story building to evade an explosion. Due to bad timing by the pyrotechnicians, she was engulfed in flames before she jumped down, resulting in severe burns to her hands and face. The epilogue of the film accounts the details about the accident, along with a message of commendation from the director for her courage and hardwork.[1]
Filmography
Films
- To Sir with Troubles 交叉零蛋 (1981)
- Winners and Sinners aka 5 Lucky Stars 奇谋妙计五福星 (1983)
- The Champions aka Crazy to Win 波牛 (1983)
- Zu Warriors aka Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain 新蜀山剑侠 (1983)
- The Protector 威龙猛探 (1985)
- Mr. Vampire 僵尸先生 (1985)
- Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars (1986) [cameo]
- Cascading Feeling aka Midnight Whispers 尽诉心中情 (1986)
- Mr. Vampire 2 僵尸先生续集 (1986)
- The Story of Dr. Sun Yat Sen (1986)
- Angel aka Fighting Madam aka Iron Angels aka Midnight Angels 天使行动 (1987)
- Angel II aka Iron Angles 2 aka Hong Kong Police Madame 2 aka Fighting Madam 2 天使行动2之火凤狂龙 (1988)
- Cascading Feeling aka Midnight Whispers (1988) (production date 1985)
- Angel Enforcers 皇家飞凤 (1989)
- Devil Hunters 猎魔群英 (1989)
- Angel III aka Iron Angels 3 aka Return of Iron Angels 天使行动3魔女末日 (1989)
- Killer Angels 杀手天使 (1989)
- Princess Madam aka Under Police Protection 金牌师姐 (1989)
- Demon Intruder aka Nocturnal Demon 夜魔先生/野鬼先生 (1990)
- Fatal Termination aka Death Blow 赤色大风暴 (1990)
- New Kids in Town aka Master of Disaster aka New Killers in Town 初到贵境 (1990)
- The Revenge of Angel aka Revenge of an Angel 水玲珑 (1990)
- Bury Me High 卫斯理之霸王卸甲 (1991)
- Angel Force 天使特警 (1991)
- Mission Kill 秃鹰档案 (1991)
- Dreaming of the Reality aka Dreaming the Reality 梦醒血未停 (1991)
- Mission of Condor aka Mission Kill aka Angel Force 秃鹰档案/秃鹰行动 (1991)
- Angel Terminators 2 aka The Best of the Lady Kickboxer 火种 (1991)
- The Big Deal 神偷家族 (1992)
- Inspector Wears Skirts 4 霸王花:重出江湖 (1992)
- Kickboxer's Tears 新龙争虎斗 (1992)
- A Serious Shock! aka Yes, Madam! '92 aka Death Triangle 末路狂花 (1992)
- The Avenging Quartet 霸海红英 (1992)
- Beauty Investigator aka Beauty Inspectors 妙探双娇 (1992)
- Mission of Justice 金三角群英会 (1992)
- Angel of Kickboxer aka Angel the Kickboxer aka Bloody Mary Killer aka Honor and Glory 纵横天下 (1993) Uncredited
- Angel's Project aka Angel Mission 天使狂龙 (1993)
- Secret Police 警网雄风 (1994)
- Little Heroes Lost in China 小鬼奇兵 (1997)
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- Tai Seng Home Video release of Avenging Quartet incorrectly cited copyright date as 1994 on boxcover.
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TV serial drama
- Fatherland 大地恩情 (1980)
- I Have to Fly 我要高飛 (1981)
- Ah Sir Ah Sir 阿SIR 阿SIR (1982)
- Onion Flower 洋葱花 (1983)
- Drunken Fist 醉拳王無忌 (1984)
- I Love Mermaid 我愛美人魚 (1984)
- Drunken Fist 2 日帝月后 (1984)
- Miracle of the Orient 香江歳月 (1984)
- Ji Gong 濟公 (1985)
- Passionate Fairy 仙女多情 (1985)
- Bravo! Kowloon Tong 魅力九龍塘 (1985)
- The Supersword Lady 越女剣 (1986)
- Ba Wang Hua 霸王花 (1993)
- Fist of Power 南拳北腿 (1995)
- Putonghua Children Drama 普通話親子劇場 (1998)
- Fist of Hero 中華大丈夫 (1999)
References
- ^ 獨家公開被炸傷真面目
- ^ "Moon Lee". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0497920/. Retrieved April 19, 2010.
- ^ "Moon Lee". chinesemov.com. http://chinesemov.com/actors/Moon%20Lee.html. Retrieved April 19, 2010.
External links
Categories:- 1965 births
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- Hong Kong film actors
- Hong Kong actors
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