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Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (; born 20 September 1964) is a 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 Exile'', ''Centre 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. ==Early life and education== Maggie Cheung was born in Hong Kong in 1964 to Shanghainese parents. She attended St. Paul's Convent School, where she began at the primary one level. Her family emigrated from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom when she was eight. She spent part of her childhood and adolescence in Bromley, Kent, England. She returned to Hong Kong at the age of 18 in 1982 for a vacation but ended up staying for modeling assignments and other commitments. She also shortly obtained a sales job at Lane Crawford department store. In 1983, Cheung entered the Miss Hong Kong pageant and won the first runner-up and the Miss Photogenic award as well.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.misshkbeauties.com/mhk/1983/index.htm )〕 She was a semi-finalist in the Miss World pageant the same year.〔(- Miss World Previous Title Holders - 1983 )〕 Prior to 1988, Cheung screen appearance was often limited to eye candy roles. One of Cheung's notable movie roles then is that of "May", the girlfriend of police detective "Kevin" Chan Ka Kui in Jackie Chan's ''Police Story'' series (however, she did not reprise the role in ''Police Story 4: First Strike'' or ''New Police Story''). Maggie frequently cited her performance in the movie ''As Tears Go By'' (1988), her first of many collaborations with film director Wong Kar-wai, as the piece that truly began her serious acting career. Cheung is a polyglot as a result of her upbringing in Hong Kong and England and ten years' stay in Paris. In ''Centre Stage'', Cheung performed in Cantonese, Mandarin and Shanghainese fluently, switching languages with ease. In ''Clean'', she performed in fluent English, French and Cantonese. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maggie Cheung」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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