Cherie Chung - Wikipedia

Hong Kong actress

Cherie Chung
Attending a brand event in April 2019
Born	Chung Chor-hung (1960-02-16) 16 February 1960 (age 64)British Hong Kong
Citizenship	British
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1973–1994
Spouse	Mike Chu ​ ​(m. 1991; died 2007)​
Awards	Asia Pacific Film Festival Best Actress1984 Hong Kong, Hong Kong Asia Pacific Film FestivalBest Actress1987 An Autumn's Tale
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	鍾楚紅
Simplified Chinese	钟楚红
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōng Chǔ Hóng Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Chung Cho Hung

Cherie Chung Chor-hung (Chinese: 鍾楚紅; Jyutping: zung1 co2 hung4; born 16 February 1960) is a retired Hong Kong film actress. Of Hakka ancestry, she was one of the top actresses in Hong Kong film during the 1980s.

Background

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Chung participated in the 1979 Miss Hong Kong competition and came in 3rd runner-up. She was later discovered by film director Johnnie To and debuted in his first film The Enigmatic Case (1980).[1]

Her beauty and charm led her to become one of the top actresses in Hong Kong at the time. In her film career, one of her most famous performances was in Mabel Cheung's An Autumn's Tale (1987), where she portrayed Jennifer, an educated middle-class woman who falls in love with a rude and uneducated man played by Chow Yun-fat. She is known as the "Marilyn Monroe" of Hong Kong and the Chinese entertainment industry due to her beautiful looks. Chung retired from acting in the 1990s. Her last film was John Woo's Once a Thief (1991), which was also a classic.[2]

She married advertising guru Mike Chu in 1991 in the United States. Chu died of cancer in August 2007.[1]

She is also very active in promoting environmental protection.

Filmography

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Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	The Enigmatic Case	Yao Puipui
1981	The Postman Strikes Back	Guihua
	The Story of Woo Viet	Shum Ching
1982	It Takes Two
	The Dead and the Deadly	Miss Yuen
	Eclipse	Nominated—Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress
1983	Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
	Winners and Sinners	Shirley
	Salt and Pepper
	Hong Kong Playboys	Mei
	Hong Kong, Hong Kong	Man Si Sun	Nominated—Hong Kong Film Award for Best ActressNominated—Golden Horse Award for Best Actress
	Descendant of the Sun	Princess
1984	Heaven Can Help	Cathy
	Maybe It's Love
	Prince Charming	Yuk Duk-mei
	My Darling Genie
	The Hidden Power of the Dragon Sabre
	Banana Cop	Amy
	Cher, Last Victory	Cherie Teng
1985	The Flying Mr. B
	Women
	Fascinating Affairs	Diana
1986	Happy Ding Dong	Din-Din
	Peking Opera Blues	Sheung Hung
1987	Double Fixation
	Goodbye Darling	Josephine
	Spiritual Love	Wei Hsiao-Tieh
	Spooky Kama Sutra
	An Autumn's Tale	Jennifer	Nominated—Hong Kong Film Award for Best ActressNominated—Golden Horse Award for Best Actress
1988	Moon, Stars & Sun	GiGi
	One Husband Too Many	Frances
	The Yuppie Fantasia
	Fatal Love	Cecilia Yau Tai-Kam
	Couples, Couples, Couples	Mary Huang
	Walk on Fire	Miss Chung
	Bet on Fire	Hung
	Carry on Hotel
	18 Times
	Golden Swallow	Hsiao-Hsueh / Lu Hsiao-Ping
	The Eight Happiness	Beautiful
	The Good, the Bad and the Beauty	Ko Sau-Ping
	Chaos by Design
	Mr. Mistress	Ho's girlfriend
	Golden Years	Chu So-So
	Last Romance
1989	Diary of a Small Man
	Wild Search	Cher	Nominated—Golden Horse Award for Best Actress
	Happy Together
	Stars & Roses
1991	Zodiac Killers	Mang Tit Lan
	Once a Thief	Red Bean

Television

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• Floating Clouds (1981) (RTHK television series "Hong Kong, Hong Kong", no. 1)

References

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1. ^ a b Lui, Mabel (2023-11-24). "Cherie Chung a screen goddess, the Marilyn Monroe of Hong Kong, fans said – how she retired from acting at the height of her career and hasn't looked back". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2024-04-18.
2. ^ Stokes, Lisa Odham (2007). Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0810864580. Retrieved 2020-12-03.

External links

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• Cherie Chung at IMDb
• Cherie Chung Cho Hung at hkmdb.com
• Cherie Chung Chor Hung at hkcinemagic.com
• Movie stills from An Autumn's Tale (Japan version) Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
• Floating Clouds (45 minutes; RTHK television series "Hong Kong, Hong Kong", no. 1; broadcast on 17 October 1981; RTHK official website)
• Ford, Stacilee. Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting's An Autumn's Tale (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008)

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