Popular name Maggie Cheung
Birth name Maggie Cheung Man-yuk
Birth place Hong Kong
Birth date September 20, 1964
Occupation Actress
Personal Life and Career
Maggie Cheung raised in England and Hong Kong, Her credit more than 70 films since she starting her career in 1983. Cheung become 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.
In 1983, she entered the Miss Hong Kong pageant and won the first runner-up and the Miss Photogenic award as well. She was a semi-finalist in the Miss World pageant the same year.
Her most recent film appearance was as Mazu, Chinese goddess of the sea, in the film/video installation Ten Thousand Waves by British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien. In April 2010 she was appointed as UNICEF's Ambassador to China. In July 2011 Cheung was awarded the degree Doctor honoris causa at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
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