Maggie Cheung

Acting

Biography

Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk (born 20 September 1964) is a former Hong Kong actress. Raised in England and Hong Kong, she has over 70 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983. Some of her most commercially successful work was in the action genre, but Cheung once said in an interview that of all the work she has done, the films that really meant something to her are Song of the Exile, Center Stage, Comrades: Almost a Love Story and In the Mood for Love. As Emily Wang in Clean, her last starring role to date, she became the first Asian actress to win a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Cheung's native language is Cantonese, but she is multilingual, having learned to speak English, Mandarin and French.

Filmography Movies

Acting

MOVIE

2046

7.2(1.1K)

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

In the Mood for Love

8.1(3.2K)

In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.

Police Story 2

7.1(0.6K)

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

Police Story 3: Super Cop

6.9(0.6K)

A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.

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Police Story 3: Super Cop

May

MOVIE

Chinese Box

5.8(0.1K)

The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.

Project A Part II

7.1(0.3K)

Dragon is now transferred to be the police head of Sai Wan district, and has to contend with a gangster kingpin, anti-Manchu revolutionaries, some runaway pirates, Manchu Loyalists and a corrupt police superintendent.

As Tears Go By

7.0(0.4K)

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

Irma Vep

6.7(0.2K)

A has-been French filmmaker wants a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine in a rendering of Les Vampires.

Police Story

7.5(1.0K)

Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the boss' secretary, Selina, who will testify against the gangster in court.

New Dragon Gate Inn

7.3(0.2K)

During the Ming Dynasty, power-crazed eunuch Tso Siu Yan rules his desert region of China as if he were Emperor, ruthlessly thwarts plots against him and sets a trap for one of his enemies at the Dragon Gate Inn.

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New Dragon Gate Inn

Jade

Production

MOVIE

Inglourious Basterds

8.2(24.1K)

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

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Inglourious Basterds

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