Maggie Cheung

Acting

Maggie Cheung

Born

1964-09-20 (62)

Place of birth

Hong Kong, British Crown Colony

Known for

Acting

Credits

73 titles

Maggie Cheung (born 20 September 1964) is a Hong Kong actress. She is considered to be one of the most successful and internationally acclaimed actresses in Asia. Cheung is the recipient of numerous accolades, including five Hong Kong Film Awards and five Golden Horse Awards, holding the record for most awards in the Best Actress category. Internationally, she is best known for winning the Silver Bear for Center Stage (1992) and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Clean (2004), making her the first Asian actress to receive the latter and the only Asian actress to have won Best Actress awards at two of the three major European film festivals.

Known for

Golden Horse Awards poster
9.0

The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is usually held in November or December in Taipei, although the event has also been held in other locations in Taiwan in recent times

Golden Horse Awards

1962

Hero poster
7.5

During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, claiming to have killed the three assassins who had made an attempt on the king's life three years ago.

Hero

2002

Police Cadet poster
7.0

Police Cadet '84 was a TV series which included such stars in TVB as Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, and notably, Carina Lau. The story centered on a couple of young "cadets" in the Police Cadet School. Tragedy, romance, conflicts, and intrigues were featured. The series was immediately followed by a sequels titled "New Police Cadet '85" and "New Police Cadet '88". Both sequels stars Tony Leung.

Police Cadet

1984

In the Mood for Love poster
8.1

In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.

In the Mood for Love

2000

Celebrity Talk Show poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

Celebrity Talk Show

1989

Days of Being Wild poster
7.3

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

Days of Being Wild

1990

Film credits

2000s · 6 titles

1990s · 30 titles

Days of Being Wild poster
7.3

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

Days of Being Wild

1990

Police Story 3: Super Cop poster
6.9

A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.

Police Story 3: Super Cop

1992

Ashes of Time poster
7.1

Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days in the desert, connecting expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. Throughout five seasons in exile, Ouyang spins tales of his clients' unrequited loves and unusual acts of bravery.

Ashes of Time

1994

Twin Dragons poster
6.9

Identical twins are separated at birth, one becoming a streetwise mechanic, and the other an acclaimed classical concert conductor. Finally meeting in adulthood, they're mistaken for the other and entangled in each other's worlds.

Twin Dragons

1992

Moon Warriors poster
6.5

A kind-hearted fisherman, content with simple life, is reluctantly drawn into helping a noble emperor regain his throne from his evil brother.

Moon Warriors

1992

The Eagle Shooting Heroes poster
7.1

A power struggle between the Queen's treasonous lover and a princess occurs amid musical numbers, slapstick battles, and martial arts acrobatics.

The Eagle Shooting Heroes

1993

The Heroic Trio poster
6.7

While one tough woman with an invisible robe has stolen 18 babies for her powerful master, two other tough women and the cops try to stop her.

The Heroic Trio

1993

The Banquet poster
5.8

Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer Boss Hung has secured the other two. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.

The Banquet

1991

Center Stage poster
7.3

Based on the tragic true story of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu, chronicling her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai during the 1930s.

Center Stage

1991

Chinese Box poster
5.8

The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.

Chinese Box

1997

New Dragon Gate Inn poster
7.4

During the Ming Dynasty, power-crazed eunuch Tso Siu Yan rules his desert region of China as if he were Emperor, ruthlessly thwarts plots against him and sets a trap for one of his enemies at the Dragon Gate Inn.

New Dragon Gate Inn

1992

All's Well, Ends Well poster
7.1

Three brothers living with their father fib and play pranks to win parental approval for themselves and their romances.

All's Well, Ends Well

1992

The Bare-Footed Kid poster
6.2

A poor barefoot young man from the country arrives in the city to start work with the friend of his dead father.

The Bare-Footed Kid

1993

Heroic Trio 2: Executioners poster
5.9

In a post-nuclear world, three superpowered women fight an evil genius controlling the government and the water supply.

Heroic Trio 2: Executioners

1993

Irma Vep poster
6.7

A has-been French filmmaker wants a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine in a rendering of Les Vampires.

Irma Vep

1996

Flying Dagger poster
4.6

The well-known "Flying Dagger" Chung and his nephew Lam lived on rewards from apprehending bandits. Chung refused the love of "Great Coquette" Lady Fung. Therefore, Fung always mess up Chung's business for revenge. Flying Fox, the country's number one bandit, had stolen the millionaire Tsao's evidence of being a traitor. Hence, Tsao employed Chung to catch the bandit. Flying Fox's wife, Flying Cat seduced Chung to save her husband, which caused jealousy and a severe fight with Fung. Meanwhile Lam was kidnapped by Tsao. Chung and Fung finally realized that Tsao was the head of East Wing. They united together to beat against Tsao...

Flying Dagger

1993

Green Snake poster
7.3

Two snake spirits become human and learn about love and suffering. A monk discovers his own weaknesses and finds that morality is not as simple as he had thought.

Green Snake

1993

Comrades, Almost a Love Story poster
7.8

Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out.

Comrades, Almost a Love Story

1996

The Mad Monk poster
5.9

The gods in heaven complain to the Jade Emperor about the malicious practical jokes played on them by Dragon Fighter Lohan.

The Mad Monk

1993

What a Hero! poster
6.2

Yuen Tak Wah (Andy Lau) has been practicing Taekwondo since he was a kid and becomes an expert at it with his best trick being the 720 Degree Whirlwind Kick. Wah later becomes a cop and uses his good skills to contribute in cracking cases which leads to the jealousy of Officer Cheung Yeung (Roy Cheung), the leader of the rival team. Cheung is also a Taekwondo expert who has a won a championship at the Hong Kong Police Force's Taekwondo Tournament.

What a Hero!

1992

The Soong Sisters poster
6.6

Ai-ling married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader during World War II. The sisters captured the world's fascination for their brilliant marriages and their strong influence on their nation.

The Soong Sisters

1997

Heart Against Hearts poster
7.0

George Lam and Carol Cheng play a couple who finally settle down after a long-running love marathon. Their troubles begin when George loses his job and becomes a house-husband, while Carol and daughter (Vivian Chow) become the breadwinners of the family.

Heart Against Hearts

1992

Augustin, King of Kung-Fu poster
7.1

The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin (Jean-Chretien Sibertin Blanc), on obscure young actor of bit-parts and advertisements, has but one ambition - to play the lead role in a Kung Fu epic. But hours of Kung Fu practice alone in his room are not enough. Augustin knows he must pack up and start a new life in China... or at least that part of China within bicycling distance: Chinatown in south-east Paris. There he meets Ling (Maggie Cheung), a young Chinese woman who practices ocupuncture, and little by little, Ling's needles awaken emotions in Augustin that his virginal body had never dreamed of. Where will this lead him? To Kung Fu stardom, maybe not, but to another destiny, a quirky but logical continuation of the same dream.

Augustin, King of Kung-Fu

1999

The Dragon from Russia poster
5.4

A former member of a band of criminals known as the 'Eight-Hundred Dragons' is living in fear in Manchuria as the clan does not allow people to leave alive. However, he is eventually tracked down, and kidnapped along with a young Manchurian, Yao - whose memory is erased so that he can be trained in martial arts. Yao's work as an assassin becomes more complicated, however, when he sees his old lover again and his real memories come flooding back.

The Dragon from Russia

1990

The First Shot poster
6.4

During a period of widespread police corruption, Ti Lung is a stubborn cop who takes on both the mob and the political establishment.

The First Shot

1993

Holy Weapon poster
6.5

During the Ming dynasty, Mo Kake takes an invincibility drink to defeat the best Japanese warrior, Super Sword. Three years later, the samurai returns, determined to take the power of 7 Maidens to defeat Mo Kake.

Holy Weapon

1993

Farewell China poster
7.1

Li Hung is a desperate mother who tried for years to obtain an American visa to study to create a better life for her husband Nansan and her son. But after a short time, she loses contact with her family, and her husband, Nansan smuggles himself to New York to find her.

Farewell China

1990

Rose poster
8.2

Sullen insurance agent Rose reluctantly rescues a triad goon, Roy, suffering from hatchet wounds, and thus begins their slow-burn romance.

Rose

1992

Red Dust poster
7.0

Stretching across the canvas of the Sino-Japanese War of the 30s, the subsequent Japanese surrender in 1945, and the onslaught of Communism, this film depicts an ill-fated romance between a talented lady novelist and a Chinese traitor working with the Japanese who fall victim to the mayhem of war and their tragic inability to reconcile political differences.

Red Dust

1990

Song of the Exile poster
7.6

Set in the early 1970s, it tells the story of a Chinese-Japanese student who returns to her native Hong Kong after graduating from a university in London. Once she arrives back home, she and her family begin to fight, largely due to cultural and societal conflicts between her mother and herself.

Song of the Exile

1990

1980s · 20 titles

Police Story poster
7.6

Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the boss' secretary, Selina, who will testify against the gangster in court.

Police Story

1985

Police Story 2 poster
7.1

The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.

Police Story 2

1988

Project A - Part II poster
7.1

Dragon is now transferred to be the police head of Sai Wan district, and has to contend with a gangster kingpin, anti-Manchu revolutionaries, some runaway pirates, Manchu Loyalists and a corrupt police superintendent.

Project A - Part II

1987

As Tears Go By poster
7.0

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

As Tears Go By

1988

The Seventh Curse poster
6.8

When Dr. Yuen attempts to rescue a girl about to be sacrificed by the Worm Tribe in the middle of a jungle in Thailand, he is damned with seven deadly "blood curses" and must return there to find a permanent cure.

The Seventh Curse

1986

The Iceman Cometh poster
7.4

When 16th-century Ming guard Fong Sau-Ching sets out to capture vicious rapist Fung San, both men end up falling into a glacier to be frozen in time. Thawed out by scientists over 300 years later, the confused guard must learn to cope with the modern world and continue in his quest to vanquish his opponent.

The Iceman Cometh

1989

Last Romance poster
6.1

Best friends So-so and Nancy fall in love with the same handsome Japanese boy, who cannot fulfill both girls' destinies.

Last Romance

1988

Story of Rose poster
6.8

Rose is living an idyllic life with her brother. They are so close that their bond has a subtle hint of incest. The bond is broken when her brother dies until she meets a guy who looks like her deceased brother.

Story of Rose

1986

Happy Ghost III poster
6.9

A young, unsuccessful singer, after committing suicide, is to be reincarnated, this time into a musical family. Her spirit must get to the hospital where her future mother is currently ready to give birth to her, so that she can enter the womb and be born. Unfortunately, she misses her appointed birth time, twice, due to the accidental intervention of a young man, Mr. Hong. At first she is angry and makes life hard for him, but eventually they fall in love, although she can't stay around long as she has one last chance to be born.

Happy Ghost III

1986

A Fishy Story poster
6.6

An aspiring starlet arrives in the Fragrant Harbor with dreams of becoming a star, whilst striking up a friendship with a wannabe cabbie who lives in the same apartment building.

A Fishy Story

1989

Heartbeat 100 poster
7.6

A fiction writer and her sister travel to the country to work on a new novel, but local thugs and a murder complicate matters.

Heartbeat 100

1987

Little Cop poster
7.6

Ever since he was a child, Lee Chi-kin has been determined to become a police officer, despite the fact that he comes from a family of criminals. As an adult, he joins the police force, where he is first placed with the Narcotics Bureau. During a drug raid operation, he catches a drug dealer. He is later transferred, first to the Anti-Porno Bureau where he falls in love with a call girl, then to the Regional Crime Unit where he works under Inspector Chu. During a drug raid operation, Lee kills drug lord Ng Cheung. Ng's father hires a killer, Thousand Faces Man to take revenge on Lee. After several confrontations, Lee finally brings Thousand Faces Man to justice. The corrupt director of a mental hospital places Lee in the mental hospital for a year, during which time he develops mental disorders. After being discharged from the hospital, he becomes a restaurant waiter.

Little Cop

1989

In Between Loves poster
4.4

Taxi driver Lung is obsessed with TV news reporter Jenny Tung. He attempts to gain her affection by providing minor news stories, but her arrogant lawyer boyfriend, John Liu gets in the way. He tells Lung that she is only interested in major events. When a series of murders begins to plaque the city, Lung begins to feed Tung info on the killings but is he more connected than he lets on?

In Between Loves

1989

The Romancing Star poster
6.0

Wong, a mechanic who falls for a beautiful rich girl played by Maggie Cheung. When Wong finds out his friend also like her, he must fight him for her attention.

The Romancing Star

1987

You're My Destiny poster
7.5

Naomi, a corporate heiress from Japan, vacations to Hong Kong with her two colleagues. Bored, she sneaks out to visit the city and befriends a local rock band and, appreciative of the company, later helps the members with their debit issues. Meanwhile, Naomi's colleagues received news that the big boss of their company succumbed to a heart attack and that Naomi must sign a document to prevent the company from being turned over to a corrupt executive. The colleagues try to locate Naomi, just as a relationship develops between her and the band leader.

You're My Destiny

1987

Paper Marriage poster
7.2

Set in Canada, a down-on-his-luck Chinese boxer Bo Chin (Samo Hung) accepts promise of payment to marry a Hong Kong woman Jade Lee (Maggie Cheung) so she can get Canadian citizenship. They realize too late that they have been set up in a complicated plan to cheat them out of the woman's money. Their adventures begin when Bo is forced back into the ring and Jade tries her hand at mud-wrestling!

Paper Marriage

1988

How to Pick Girls Up! poster
4.4

Three love-challenged men meet a radio host who tutors them in the art of picking up women in a variety of unconventional ways in Wong Jing's gleefully crude and tasteless comedy.

How to Pick Girls Up!

1988

The Bachelor's Swan Song poster
6.7

Kenny and Maggie, lovers of long standing, have been scrimping and saving for their marriage. One day Maggie suspects that she is pregnant, and suggests an early wedding. Kenny is thunder struck as he has just lost his every cent in the stock market.

The Bachelor's Swan Song

1989

Behind the Yellow Line poster
6.3

Married boss Paul falls for his employee named Monica after running into her in a subway station and it makes all things uneasy for her.

Behind the Yellow Line

1984

Call Girl '88 poster
4.8

A depressing tale dealing with five women involved with prostitution and the effects it has on their love and family lives. High class or low class, each is just as sad.

Call Girl '88

1988

Series credits

Golden Horse Awards poster
9.0

The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is usually held in November or December in Taipei, although the event has also been held in other locations in Taiwan in recent times

Golden Horse Awards

1962

Police Cadet poster
7.0

Police Cadet '84 was a TV series which included such stars in TVB as Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, and notably, Carina Lau. The story centered on a couple of young "cadets" in the Police Cadet School. Tragedy, romance, conflicts, and intrigues were featured. The series was immediately followed by a sequels titled "New Police Cadet '85" and "New Police Cadet '88". Both sequels stars Tony Leung.

Police Cadet

1984

Celebrity Talk Show poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

Celebrity Talk Show

1989

Chef Nic poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chef Nic

2014

The Incredibly Strange Film Show poster
8.3

A series of documentaries focusing on the world of psychotronic movies; focusing on the lives of filmakers such as Hershell Gordon Lewis, Saim Raimi, Doris Wishman, Ed Wood Jr, and Tsui Hark. Covers weird movie genres, like Mexican wrestling movies and Hong Kong horror films.

The Incredibly Strange Film Show

1988

Rainbow Round My Shoulder poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rainbow Round My Shoulder

1984

The Yang's Saga poster
8.9

The Yang's Saga is a 1985 Hong Kong miniseries based on a series of novels and plays titled Generals of the Yang Clan. The series is a grand production by the television station TVB. The original broadcast period on TVB Jade was from 23 to 28 September 1985, within the night time slot for Enjoy Yourself Tonight. Starring the Five Tiger Generals of TVB, the drama also featured the largest star-studded cast in Hong Kong television history, including many of the industry's current top award-winning global and cinematic stars.

The Yang's Saga

1985

星空下的傾情 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

星空下的傾情

1997

The Fallen Family poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Fallen Family

1985

The Feud That Never Was poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Feud That Never Was

1985

情场妙女郎 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

情场妙女郎

1993

中国反家暴纪事 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

中国反家暴纪事

2014

Leslie Cheung Special '89 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Leslie Cheung Special '89

1989