https://www.scmp.com/rss/330385/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3206103/michelle-yeoh-having-moment?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3206103/michelle-yeoh-having-moment?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Jan 2023 09:11:53 +0000 For her supporting role as a beautiful model who leads a rich, glamorous life in the sleeper hit Chinese drama series Star of Ocean, Augusta Xu-Holland turned to Hollywood celebrity Paris Hilton for inspiration. The 30-year-old New Zealand-Chinese actress wanted to flesh out her character Juliet – a young woman who seems to have everything in life but is plagued with insecurities – with emotional depth. “I was touched by a recently released YouTube documentary on [Hilton], which exposes her... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3155823/star-ocean-actress-augusta-xu-holland-how-paris-hilton-puts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3155823/star-ocean-actress-augusta-xu-holland-how-paris-hilton-puts?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Nov 2021 09:15:15 +0000 Drifting, a gritty Hong Kong film about the plight of homeless people in the city’s poorest district, Sham Shui Po, has won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the First International Film Festival in Xining, northwest China. Loletta Lee Lai-chun, among a cast of stars including Francis Ng Chun-yu and Tse Kwan-ho, shines as a resilient dishwasher named Chan who is waiting for a public housing flat. Lee tells the Post that, before shooting started, she visited the homeless in Sham Shui... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3144338/loletta-lee-famous-hong-kong-actress-80s-and-90s-her-four?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3144338/loletta-lee-famous-hong-kong-actress-80s-and-90s-her-four?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:15:18 +0000 Having stepped back from show business when she became the mother of two boys, former Miss Hong Kong and TVB actress Grace Chan Hoi-lam misses acting and being on the set of a production. “I miss being in a team environment where everyone works together to make an amazing product for the audience to view,” Chan tells the Post. “It was so much fun being able to play someone else, to be transported into a different world and era of time. That’s what I genuinely miss.” Her last acting work was in... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3139553/former-hong-kong-actress-grace-chan-why-raising-family-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3139553/former-hong-kong-actress-grace-chan-why-raising-family-and?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Jul 2021 04:15:16 +0000 One of China’s favorite female actresses has been dumped as the face of a global fashion house and come under fire from Chinese authorities after a recording revealed she wanted her babies – born by surrogacy - aborted or given up for adoption. The actress had split up with the babies’ father before they were born. The surrogacy scandal broke with the news that Zheng Shuang, 29, had been accused by her former partner, producer Zhang Heng, of abandoning her two children born to surrogate mothers... https://www.scmp.com/society/chinese-actress-embroiled-surrogacy-scandal/article/3118692?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/chinese-actress-embroiled-surrogacy-scandal/article/3118692?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:01:10 +0000 Michelle Yeoh is generating Oscar buzz for her role as the disapproving mother in “Crazy Rich Asians”—and it's no surprise given the 56-year-old actress’s other remarkable performances over the past three decades. But before she was the controlling Eleanor Young, the Malaysian-born Chinese star was best known for her prowess in martial arts. Here are five other films where Yeoh has left her mark. Police Story 3: Super Cop (1992) By the early ’90s, Yeoh had shown her mettle in a number of Hong... https://www.scmp.com/culture/30-years-michelle-yeoh-kicking-ass/article/3000157?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/30-years-michelle-yeoh-kicking-ass/article/3000157?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Oct 2018 11:35:26 +0000