Flora Chan
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Flora Chan Wai-Shan was born in 30 May 1970 in Hong Kong
. She is a Hong Kong television and film actress.
and emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts at a young age. As a child, she had hoped to become a dancer, but because of an injury when she was a teenager, she was forced to abandon her dreams as a professional dancer. She attended Boston College
and earned a degree
in journalism
before returning to Hong Kong in the early 1990s with her then-husband, Chung Wai Ming. She and her husband divorced in 2000. Chan married her manager Mike Chung Ka-Hung (鐘家鴻).
Rather than getting her start from modeling
or a beauty pageant, the Miss Hong Kong Pageant
, (香港小姐競選) which provides actresses for HK's television station, TVB, Chan was a reporter for the TVB
English Channel - TVB Pearl
. In the mid-1990s, television director Teng Dak-Hei asked her to participate in his upcoming series, the fifth installment to the popular TVB drama series, File of Justice.
Chan's performance in this series about young, yuppie lawyers caught the attention of the HK audience—and TVB. She signed on as a TVB actress and has since made other series, most notably Untraceable Evidence
, playing the calm and collected forensics doctor, "Pauline Lip"; and in Healing Hands
, a TVB series known for its cutting edge medical topics and its star-studded cast which included Lawrence Ng
, Ada Choi
, Bowie Lam and William So
.
In 2002, Chan won the coveted "Most Favorite TV Actress" award presented annually by TVB. By this time in her career, Chan already starred in various TVB dramas and was known and loved by audiences for her roles as cool professionals. Chan is no longer signed on with TVB as a full-time actress. In November 2006, Chan announced she would be returning to film a TVB serial in February 2007.
Chan gave birth to her baby daughter Alexandra Chung on September 16, 2007.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
. She is a Hong Kong television and film actress.
Biography
Chan was born in Hong KongHong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
and emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts at a young age. As a child, she had hoped to become a dancer, but because of an injury when she was a teenager, she was forced to abandon her dreams as a professional dancer. She attended Boston College
Boston College
Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...
and earned a degree
Academic degree
An academic degree is a position and title within a college or university that is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree...
in journalism
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
before returning to Hong Kong in the early 1990s with her then-husband, Chung Wai Ming. She and her husband divorced in 2000. Chan married her manager Mike Chung Ka-Hung (鐘家鴻).
Rather than getting her start from modeling
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
or a beauty pageant, the Miss Hong Kong Pageant
Miss Hong Kong Pageant
The Miss Hong Kong Pageant , or MSHK for short, is a beauty pageant organized by the leading Hong Kong television station, Television Broadcasts ....
, (香港小姐競選) which provides actresses for HK's television station, TVB, Chan was a reporter for the TVB
Television Broadcasts Limited
Television Broadcasts Limited, commonly known as TVB, is the second over-the-air commercial television station in Hong Kong. It commenced broadcasting on 19 November 1967...
English Channel - TVB Pearl
TVB Pearl
TVB Pearl is one of the two free television services in Hong Kong that mainly broadcast in the English language, the other being ATV World. It is owned and operated by Television Broadcasts Limited, and together with its sister Cantonese language station TVB Jade, is broadcast from TVB City at 77...
. In the mid-1990s, television director Teng Dak-Hei asked her to participate in his upcoming series, the fifth installment to the popular TVB drama series, File of Justice.
Chan's performance in this series about young, yuppie lawyers caught the attention of the HK audience—and TVB. She signed on as a TVB actress and has since made other series, most notably Untraceable Evidence
Untraceable Evidence
Untraceable Evidence is a TV series in Hong Kong about detectives, produced by TVB. The series had two installments.-Cast:*Bowie Lam*Flora Chan*Lo Man Kit*Margaret Chung Lai Kei*Lee San-san*Ellesmere Choi...
, playing the calm and collected forensics doctor, "Pauline Lip"; and in Healing Hands
Healing Hands
Healing Hands is a 1998 Hong Kong medical drama series that ran on TVB Jade. It focuses on the lives and loves of the doctors and nurses at the fictional Yan Oi Hospital in Hong Kong. It is noted for its realism in depicting medical situations, thanks to the help of the Hong Kong Hospital...
, a TVB series known for its cutting edge medical topics and its star-studded cast which included Lawrence Ng
Lawrence Ng
Lawrence Ng Kai Wah is a popular TV actor in Hong Kong. His more famous works include the television series Healing Hands and the films Fate Twisters and Sex and Zen.-Career:...
, Ada Choi
Ada Choi
Ada Choi Siu-fun is a Hong Kong actress best known for her work for TVB television, and to a lesser extent, for her film work. She was the second runner-up in the 1991 Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant....
, Bowie Lam and William So
William So
William So Wing Hong is a Hong Kong actor and a cantopop singer. He began his musical career by participating the New Talent Singing Awards in 1985 and won the competition as the first runner up. His performance at that event earned him a record contract with Capital Artists...
.
In 2002, Chan won the coveted "Most Favorite TV Actress" award presented annually by TVB. By this time in her career, Chan already starred in various TVB dramas and was known and loved by audiences for her roles as cool professionals. Chan is no longer signed on with TVB as a full-time actress. In November 2006, Chan announced she would be returning to film a TVB serial in February 2007.
Chan gave birth to her baby daughter Alexandra Chung on September 16, 2007.
TV series
| Year | Title | Role | Awards | Notes |
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| 1997 | File of Justice V | Ou Zi Keung (Catherine) | ||
| Untraceable Evidence Untraceable Evidence Untraceable Evidence is a TV series in Hong Kong about detectives, produced by TVB. The series had two installments.-Cast:*Bowie Lam*Flora Chan*Lo Man Kit*Margaret Chung Lai Kei*Lee San-san*Ellesmere Choi... |
Nip Bo Yin (Pauline) | |||
| 1998 | Healing Hands Healing Hands Healing Hands is a 1998 Hong Kong medical drama series that ran on TVB Jade. It focuses on the lives and loves of the doctors and nurses at the fictional Yan Oi Hospital in Hong Kong. It is noted for its realism in depicting medical situations, thanks to the help of the Hong Kong Hospital... |
Kong Sun Yuet (Annie) | ||
| 1999 | Untraceable Evidence II | Nip Bo Yin (Pauline) | ||
| Feminine Masculinity | Fong Si Ching (Christine) | TVB Award for My Favourite On-Screen Partners TVB Anniversary Awards TVB Anniversary Awards is an annual awards ceremony that celebrates the best in TVB programming. It is the Hong Kong equivalent of the Emmy Awards.... |
aka Mr. Diana | |
| Sidebeat | Kong Bik Ching | |||
| At the Threshold of an Era At the Threshold of an Era At the Threshold of an Era was a Hong Kong epic drama series broadcast by TVB Jade Channel from October 11, 1999 to December 18, 1999 and March 13, 2000 to May 26, 2000, and was extensively promoted by TVB as its cross-milliennium, one-hundred-episode-long epic... |
Fok Hei Yin (Helen) | |||
| 2000 | At the Threshold of an Era II | Fok Hei Yin (Helen) | ||
| Healing Hands II Healing Hands II After the success of the Hong Kong TV drama Healing Hands, Hong Kong's Television Broadcast Company, TVB filmed the second installment Healing Hands II in 2000. Following the HH1 storyline, Paul 's girlfriend Jackie finally awakes after two years in a coma... |
Kong Sun Yuet (Annie) | |||
| 2001 | A Taste of Love | Kiu Fa Chi (Joyce) | ||
| 2002 | A Case of Misadventure | Dai Fun | ||
| Burning Flame II | Ho Bo Lam (Michelle) | |||
| Family Man | Ko Pui Yi (Tracy) | TVB Award for My Favourite Actress in a Leading Role TVB Anniversary Awards TVB Anniversary Awards is an annual awards ceremony that celebrates the best in TVB programming. It is the Hong Kong equivalent of the Emmy Awards.... TVB Award for My Favourite Television Character |
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| 2003 | Triumph in the Skies Triumph in the Skies Triumph in the Skies is a Hong Kong drama television series. It premiered on TVB in 2003. The show tells the story of several people who work at Solar Airways as well as the Hong Kong International Airport... |
Lok Yi San (Isabelle) | TVB Award for My Favourite Television Character TVB Anniversary Awards TVB Anniversary Awards is an annual awards ceremony that celebrates the best in TVB programming. It is the Hong Kong equivalent of the Emmy Awards.... |
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| 2004 | Hard Fate Hard Fate Hard Fate is a 30-episode series which aired on TVB in 2004. It stars Flora Chan 陳慧珊, Damian Lau 劉松仁, Kevin Cheng 鄭嘉穎 and Niki Chow 周麗淇.-Synopsis:... |
Mok Hei Yee (Tiffany) | ||
| To Get Unstuck in Time | Go San (Nicole) | |||
| Like My Own | Mabel Lim | |||
| 2005 | The Great Adventure | To Lei Guen | aka Great Adventurer | |
| Wong Fei-Hung | 13th Aunt | aka Huang Fei Hong And Shi San Yi | ||
| Touching Venus | Wang Xiaojuan | aka Love Story of Venus aka Wei Na Si Zhi Lian |
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| 2007 | Lang Yan | Han Ye | ||
| 2010 | Suspects in Love Suspects in Love Suspects in Love Suspects in Love Suspects in Love (Traditional Chinese: (搜下留情) is an TVB modern drama series.In order to rescue her best friend Coco Kam (Lau Yuk Chui), masseuse Cheng Siu-Yan (Flora Chan) is embroiled in a triad murder case. Misconceiving that she has killed someone, Yan hides... |
Cheng Siu-Yan | ||
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Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Fatal Maple | Ellen | |
| 2001 | Love Au Zen | Siu Jing | |
| 2002 | Dry Wood Fierce Fire | Michelle | |
| 2006 | Undying Heart | aka Min Mie | |
| 2007 | Mad Detective Mad Detective Mad Detective is a 2007 Hong Kong psychological crime thriller film produced and directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai. The film centers on a schizophrenic, former police inspector , who decides to come out of retirement to help a rookie cop solve a complex murder case, involving a missing... |
May Cheung (in Bun's eyes) | |
| 2008 | Connected Connected (film) Connected is a 2008 action-crime thriller film co-written and directed by Benny Chan. A co-production between Hong Kong and China, the film is a remake of the 2004 film Cellular... |
Jeannie |
External links
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TVB Anniversary Awards
TVB Anniversary Awards is an annual awards ceremony that celebrates the best in TVB programming. It is the Hong Kong equivalent of the Emmy Awards....