Maggie Cheung is by far the most award-winning film actor in China film industry, with awards covering more than ten international film festivals. 1983 won the runner-up of Miss Hong Kong, and from 1989 to 200 1 * * won the Best Actress of the Four Golden Horse Awards for Taiwan Film, the Best Actress of the Five Golden Horse Awards for Hong Kong Film and the Best Supporting Actress of the First Golden Horse Award for Taiwan Film.
1In February 1992, she won the best actress in the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival with Ruan, becoming the first movie star in China film history to win the honor of being an actress in three major international film festivals in Europe. In May, 2004, she won the best actress in the 57th Cannes International Film Festival for her French film Cleanliness, becoming the first Cannes-winning actress in the Asian film circle and the only Asian actor among the three major film festivals. In addition, Maggie Cheung served as a judge of three major film festivals and retired for a long time after 2004.
From 65438 to 0998, Maggie Cheung set foot on the runway of Paris Fashion Week, creating a precedent for China movie stars to participate in the top international fashion week. In 2008, it was rated as "Top Ten Stars Influencing Fashion" by WGSN, and was awarded "Fashion Idol Award" by VOGUE in the same year. It is a recognized fashion idol at home and abroad.
In September 2004, he won the honorary citizen medal of Paris, the artistic achievement award of Montreal International Film Festival in 2005 and the outstanding contribution award of Shanghai International Film Festival in 2007. In the same year, he was named one of the 22 great performers in the world film industry by * *. 20 13 served as the image ambassador for the 50th anniversary celebration of Taiwan Golden Horse Awards. In 20 14, he entered the music scene for the first time in the year of destiny and tried post-punk rock music.
Early experience
Maggie Cheung was born on1September 20th, 964 (Mid-Autumn Festival in the Year of the Loong) and has a sister at home.
Both parents are from Shanghai. From 65438 to 0973, at the age of eight, she moved to England with her family. She spent her childhood in Kent, England, and was disciplined by her mother in the traditional way. At that time, Maggie Cheung, as the only East Asian in the school, suffered from xenophobia and discrimination, and her parents were not harmonious (after divorce), so she was very independent from an early age. When Maggie Cheung was sixteen years old, she worked as a bookstore clerk in London and went back to Hong Kong to spend a holiday with her mother. Tel: 1982. She was inadvertently attracted by an advertising company and stayed as a model. 1983, at the age of 18, she won the runner-up in the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant. In the same year, she went to Britain to participate in the Miss World beauty pageant on behalf of Hong Kong and was selected as one of the top 15, and began her acting career.
Performance experience
Be a novice
Works of the period: Fate, Never Give up, The Story of the Rose, etc.
Lead: 1984 to 1987, Maggie Cheung first set foot in film and television. He is known to the outside world for his simple and lovely image, but he has not received much attention and affirmation from the industry. Because of Maggie Cheung's non-academic background, his performance skills started from scratch, and he took some detours in his early days. After the age of 25, his acting skills and temperament gradually matured, blooming his own unique charm. This experience of groping for growth in practice makes his future film style no longer limited by the framework and theory, and his acting path tends to be broad and free, making him a highly plastic actor.
1984, Maggie Cheung starred in the first film "The Frog Prince", and in the same year, she co-starred in the film "Fate" with Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui, becoming a new movie star who dominated her debut and was praised as "the most promising actress" by the media. Director Jing Wong once described Maggie Cheung, a newcomer to the film circle, as "a blank sheet of paper with no intention, and her personality is more lovely than her appearance" in his autobiography "Young Jing Wong Wandering in the Jianghu". Maggie Cheung, a fledgling, shows people with a pure and lovely image, and most of her roles are young and charming girls.
From 1984 to 1985, Maggie Cheung shot several TV series for Hong Kong TVB, including "Xinzha Brothers" and "Wulin Family". , known as one of the five most beautiful women in wireless, and one of the women in Kowloon. 1985 participated in Yang Jiajiang and left TVB. Since then, he has never made a TV series.
1At the beginning of 985, Chen Ziqiang, the signing manager of Maggie Cheung, joined Jiahe Film from Shaw Brothers. Jackie Chan, who was in Jiahe at that time, was preparing his masterpiece "Never Give Up", and the two subsequently launched a series of cooperation. Maggie Cheung worked very hard in filming. In Police Story 2, he didn't use body double for Jackie Chan's desperate performance. As a result, I was hit by a steel bar and was hospitalized with stitches. In 2005, Jackie Chan praised Maggie Cheung as a professional actor who was "the first to arrive and the last to leave" in an exclusive interview with Can Listen.
1986, Maggie Cheung starred in the film The Story of the Rose. During the preparatory period, the original author Yi Shu insisted on choosing only Maggie Cheung, and even said to the director Yang Fan, "I don't care if she can act, as long as she comes out, I will watch." This is Maggie Cheung's first contact with literary films, but at that time, his acting skills were immature, the film effect was not satisfactory, and his deductive skills were still in the stage of exploration and tempering.
Won the best actress.
Works of the period: Tears Running, The Man Who Don't Take Off His Socks, People in new york, Love Season in a Foreign Land, Autumn Hatred, Rolling the Red Dust, The True Story of Teddy Boy, A Tale of Two Cities, etc.
Lead: Maggie Cheung's aimless performance was improved when 1987 filmed the yellow story of Zhang Aijia, and completely changed when 1988 met Wong Kar-wai. Later, it was appreciated and activated by Hong Kong-made directors such as Guan, Yim Ho, Hong Kong, etc., and gradually transformed from an ordinary commercial actor into a powerful entertainment circle. 1989, 25-year-old Maggie Cheung won the honor of being the first best actress in her life.
From 65438 to 0988, Maggie Cheung played the leading role in Wong Kar-wai's directorial debut, Tears Running. Tears of Tears is often regarded as the starting point of Maggie Cheung's serious performance, which earned her the first Oscar nomination. Since then, he has appeared in Hong Kong films such as The Last Romance, Farewell to the Bachelor, and I want to make a fortune, and his acting skills have begun to attract widespread attention from the outside world.
From 65438 to 0989, the 25-year-old won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress for Director Guan's "A Man is Embarrassing" (also known as "The Story of Three Women"), which was her first actress honor.
1990, Maggie Cheung won the best actress in the Hong Kong Academy Award for "The Man Who Doesn't Take Off His Socks", and won the special prize of the jury of Turin International Film Festival in the same year. After several years of training, Maggie Cheung rose rapidly in the film industry and began to rank among the powerful actors.
Around 1990, Maggie Cheung attracted the attention of many directors of Hong Kong New Wave, and successively appeared in high-quality films, including Yim Ho's Rolling the Red Dust (1990), Xu Anhua's Autumn Hatred (1990) and Clara Law's Foreign Love (/kloc-0
Image variability
Ruan, Happy Family, Xinlongmen Inn, Green Snake, Hero Trio, Ashes of Time, etc.
Lead: After being baptized by the director of Hong Kong New Wave, Maggie Cheung gradually faded from his ignorant image as a rookie, and his acting skills became more and more sophisticated. Her inherent acting talent and external efforts soon made her shine in the international film circle with a film Ruan Yuling, which ushered in the first peak of her film career. Since then, Maggie Cheung has started to broaden his career horizontally, and has successively created many characters with different personalities, such as gold inlaid jade, green snake and sister-in-law Ouyang Feng.
199 1 year, the film Ruan starring Maggie Cheung was presented in the form of a play. It is quite difficult for me to interact with Ruan himself, Ruan's role and his own understanding and expression. 1In February, 1992, she won the Best Actress at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival with Ruan, becoming the first China movie star to be honored as an actress at three major international film festivals in Europe. Jia Ceng commented: "The determination of the actress's fate makes her seem to be possessed by a soul. At this moment, I took her as a combination of all the talented actresses in China. "
1992, in the movie "New Longmen Inn", Maggie Cheung perfectly combined the characteristics of innkeeper, pungent, amorous feelings, wild, arrogant, tenacious and resolute, and created a classic martial arts image with a long history. The film is regarded as the starting point of new martial arts in Hong Kong and a monument to Chinese martial arts.
1993, Maggie Cheung starred in the film "Green Snake", in which he played an inexperienced, enchanting and clever snake demon. The film is beautifully shot and its content is a metaphor for Buddhism. The whole play creates an extraordinary mythical color.
From 199 1 to 1994, he also appeared in Happy Family (1992), Really Love You (1992) and Hero Trio (/kloc- In Ashes of Time, Maggie Cheung vividly shows the lonely and regretful feelings of the characters, which makes people feel sad after watching it, and a monologue by the window becomes the highlight of the film. In 2008, the ultimate version of Evil Du was released at Cannes Film Festival.
During the ten years from 1984 to 1993, Maggie Cheung, who became popular rapidly, shot a large number of films, and the film output accounted for four-fifths of the total so far, which became the most active struggle period in his film career. 1994, Maggie Cheung decided to temporarily stop filming (the film released that year was shot in 1993), and returned to the film industry two years later, and began to slow down the filming frequency.