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Changing roles for Chingmy

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Weight: 52 kilograms. Height: 168 centimetres. Eyes: dark brown. Profession: actress and model. Specialities: English and Cantonese. Bust: 35 inches. Waist: 24 inches. Hips: 34 inches.

This comprises the top half of Chingmy Yau Suk-ching's brief resume. The actress also managed 50 movies in the last eight years but being prolific, it appears, is not what makes her famous.

Ever since she dropped out of the Miss Hong Kong Beauty Pageant as a finalist and entered the film industry as a sex symbol in 1987, the Chinese gossip pages have been more interested in how much clothing Yau would shed for each film than her acting ability.

But if a Best Actress nomination in the Hong Kong Film Awards is anything to go by, Yau is showing critics that her assets amount to more than a set of vital statistics. The 27-year-old can also act.

At this year's 15th Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA), to be held at the end of this month, Yau will be up against a host of big showbiz names in the Best Actress Category. The competition is stiff.

There is Josephine Siao Fong-fong, who has already picked up a Golden Horse Award in Taiwan and the Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival for her role in Ann Hui On-wah's Summer Snow this year.

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