Biography:

Christy Chung became a favorite of many in the mid-90s with a series of popular films. Her radiant creamy complexion seemed to override the fact that she could not speak Cantonese and that her acting still needed a lot of work. Brought up in Canada - her official biography states that she is part Chinese, part Vietnamese - but many state that she is in fact 100% Vietnamese, but needed to claim Chinese ancestry in order to enter into certain beauty contests. She won the 1993 Miss Chinatown contest and received a contract from TVB. She soon moved on to film though and immediately found success. Some of her films: Bride with White Hair II, Love on Delivery, Whatever You Want, Modern Romance, Tai Chi Master II, Red Wolf and perhaps her best known film Bodyguard from Beijing with Jet Li. In the late 90's she married, had a baby girl and took a three-year leave from the film industry. She just recently returned (after dumping the husband) in a Cold War and Conman in Tokyo. In 2001 Christy looked to dramatically change her image by appearing in a Thai film, Jan Dara, in which she revealed her breasts and had some steamy love scenes and then followed this with a revealing pictorial called Feeling Christy Chung. All in all she looks pretty damn good! "Chungs serendipitous rise to glory started in 1992 when, as a marketing student at École Polytechnique, her boyfriend brought her along on a visit to Miss Chinese Montreal organizer Ruth Koo Lam. The boyfriend was trying to land a singing gig at the upcoming pageant but Lams eyes were on Chung, whom she eventually persuaded to enter the contest.   After bagging the crown, Chung was entered into the Miss Chinese International Pageant in Hong Kong. At the time, Chung, who had once failed an audition as a VJ at MusiquePlus for being too shy, had just been hired as a TV weather reporter at Radio-Canada. That was a point in my lifeto decide whether to stay in Montreal and be a weather girl or go to Hong Kong and try to make my fame, she says.  Chungs wanderlust won out. It was my first trip away. I had never left Montreal. I was in awe of the buildings, I was just happy to be here, she says in a phone interview from Hong Kong. And to her surprise, she won the bigger title. I never thought in a million years Id win the title because at that time I couldnt speak Cantonese. When they called my name, I didnt realize it. The girl sitting next to me had to explain, You just won the title. Although Chungs film experience consisted of a mere 10-second appearance as a gum-chewing prostitute in Love and Human Remains, she found herself immediately getting top billing in Hong Kong films, a rarity in a system that generally requires actors to apprentice in afternoon soaps. I was a foreigner, a Westernized woman, and here I was suddenly doing movies. It was pretty awesome considering that I didnt speak the language at all, says Chung, who reports that her language skills have improved somewhat since."