Veronica Yip Yuk-hing

Acting

Veronica Yip Yuk-hing

Born 1966-02-12 · Hong Kong, China

After finishing 2nd runner-up in the Miss Asia beauty pageant, Veronica Yip became a popular singer in Hong Kong, and then followed the career path of many Cantopop singers by going into movies. Although more acclaimed as a vocalist than an actress, Yip gave several fine performances in successful films, such as her role as the frigid and neglected wife in Hong meigui, bai meigui (1994). While appearing in concert in Atlantic City in December, 1995, she was introduced to a New York supermarket magnate. They were married the following autumn, whereupon she retired to raise a family.

Acting credits

Hidden Desire poster
5.3

David is sitting in a bar, musing over why he has bedded and left five or six of Asia's loveliest women in such a short time.

Hidden Desire

1991

Take Me poster
4.5

Milk's husband dies on their wedding night while having sex. He returns as a ghost as she attempts to get her life back on track whilst choosing between two new men in her life.

Take Me

1991

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

Pretty Woman poster
4.3

While working alone late at the office one night, Veronica is raped by a returning male colleague, who accidentally kills her in the process (she falls back and hits her head on a sharp object). Later that same evening, he comes across a bar hostess who looks identical to the woman that he has just murdered. He eventually talks her into showing up for work in Veronica's place on the very next day, and handing in her resignation. Unfortunately for him, she is persuaded to stay, and decides to continue impersonating the deceased secretary.

Pretty Woman

1991

Cash on Delivery poster
4.4

Retired gigolo Simon is engaged in antique trading and brokerage. His cousin Mike is a new gigolo who got into trouble and was caught in a lawsuit. Simon encountered Assistant Prosecutor Sandy in court. Eventually they fall in love with each other. Mrs. Liu and her husband Peter, a wealthy businessman, have no children, which makes the family very dissatisfied. They hire Simon to impregnate her. but she fell in love with Simon and pestered him obsessively. Simon accidentally killed Peter by mistake. Mrs. Liu accused Simon of murdering her husband. Sandy acted as Simon's defense lawyer and used her resourcefulness to get Simon acquitted.

Cash on Delivery

1992

Scarred Memory poster
6.3

Ivy Yip is a young doctor who’s suffering psychological trauma after being raped. She has an understanding boyfriend and best friend, but the pressure of her sexual frigidity gets to them and she finds them in extra-curricular activity. Due to her shame and alienation, she neglects a bloodied patient, Lung, who arrives at the ER. She’s punished by her superiors whereupon she quits to rest in Macau. Then guess who shows up: Lung, who’s become “special” thanks to his head trauma.

Scarred Memory

1996

3 Days of a Blind Girl poster
5.6

Mrs. Ng, who is left temporarily blind after an eye operation. Second day, her husband takes off to Macau for a business trip. Soon afterwards, Sam, a former patient of Dr. Ng, shows up to Mrs. Ng with sinister motives.

3 Days of a Blind Girl

1993

Hero - Beyond the Boundary of Time poster
5.1

Wai Siu-Bo travels to the future on a mission to cure the emperor's illness.

Hero - Beyond the Boundary of Time

1993

1941 Hong Kong on Fire poster
4.2

A family suffers at the hands of the Japanese during the occupation of Hong Kong. On December 25, 1941, the Japanese army occupied Hong Kong. The pawnshop owner, Luo Kai has three daughters, the eldest daughter Wangdi, the second daughter Xindi, and the youngest daughter Aidi. When the Japanese army captured Kowloon, Aidi was violently tortured by the Japanese army and suffered a mental disorder. Xindi followed his lover Shen Fang to rescue the wounded in the temporary hospital. In order to curry favor with the Japanese army, Luo Kai did not hesitate to sacrifice his eldest daughter Wangdi. However, not long after he became a traitor, his second daughter Xindi was attracted by a Japanese military officer. Luo Kai finally couldn't bear to fight against Wangdi to stop him. In the chaos...

1941 Hong Kong on Fire

1994

Gigolo and Whore II poster
7.9

Humiliated by Charlene, a rich girl who has acquired the company that Johnson works in, Johnson decides to take revenge on her. To their surprise, Charlene turn to woman again. When Jack nearly succeeds, he finds himself in love with Charlene...

Gigolo and Whore II

1992

I Love Hong Kong 2013 poster
5.7

Eric Tsang and stars are back with another entry into the "I Love Hong Kong" franchise: this Chinese New Year with a story that is set in the 1970s, a decade of economic growth and prosperity for Hong Kong and the citizens.

I Love Hong Kong 2013

2013

Call Girl '92 poster
8.0

When a frumpy divorcee leaves her philandering spouse for the company of her best friend's classy stable of escorts, romantic misadventures begin.

Call Girl '92

1992

01:00 A.M. poster
5.7

A film that foretells three modern-day ghost stories, set in the City of Hong Kong. The first segment deals with a popular singer that mysteriously falls into a deep coma, and the public is unaware that his spirit is detained by the ghost of an obsessed fan of his. His plea for help is only recognized by his nurse. In the second segment, four college girls are assigned an unusual project, and their selected-topic is to "interview" the ghost of the "Braided Woman." When they encounter the streets where the ghost was claimed to roam, they find themselves in a mist of terror. In the third segment, two night-duty police officers stumble upon a mysterious crisis when their speed-tracking camera detects a image of an old woman. After the woman's first sighting, the officers encounter her in every place they go, and their only solution is to find out what she wants.

01:00 A.M.

1995

Red Rose White Rose poster
6.3

Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background. Dissonance abound when he finds his bride irritating.

Red Rose White Rose

1994

Love Among the Triad poster
8.0

Simon Yam Tat-wah and Rosamund Kwan Chi-lam star in this gauzy melodrama about the life and loves of the gangster elite, directed by Andy Chin Wing-keung. The film centers around Ching Kit, a mob boss who instead of using typical tools of underworld shakedowns -- mob hits, blackmail, and the like -- employs the dinner party to negotiate deals, to forge partnerships, and craft revenge. When Ching works out a deal with the Portuguese mob that would give him partial control of Macau's casinos, he quickly learns that treachery lurks around every corner. Veronica Yip Yuk-hing, Cecila Yip Tung, and Pauline Wong Siu-fung also appear.

Love Among the Triad

1993

Rose Rose I Love You poster
6.8

Bumbling Hong Kong detectives Lui (Kenny Bee) and Leung (Tony Leung Ka-Fai) go undercover in an apartment complex to keep watch over Pearl Chan (Carina Lau), a high school teacher who is suspected to be connected to a rare diamond theft involving a notorious thief named Mr. Mickey (Simon Yam). Meanwhile, the legendary Black Rose (Veronica Yip) appears and is also in pursuance of Mr. Mickey, wanting him to surrender himself and the diamond in order to clear her name.

Rose Rose I Love You

1993

A Roof with a View poster
7.5

Hiu-tung (Veronica Yip) is a naïve young wife who is forced to raise her child alone after her gangster husband skips town for Taiwan. Her next-door neighbor is Ching-man (Tony Leung Kar-fai), a cop still coming to terms with his partner's sudden, inexplicable suicide. Inevitably, the two begin to find solace in each other's company -- Ching-man even acting as a sort of surrogate father for her son -- and soon in each other's arms. Just as true love seems about to bloom, Hiu-tung's thuggish husband returns.

A Roof with a View

1993

Summer Lover poster
5.3

Romantic comedy from Hong Kong.

Summer Lover

1992

Rose poster
8.3

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

Rose

1992

Mother of a Different Kind poster
7.5

Referred to as Hong Kong's answer to "Misery", innocent-looking Bo-Bo Fung is an overprotective mother/nurse who is bent on revenge at all costs after the death of her son at the hands of policeman Lau Ching-Wan. Veronica Yip stars as a gambling addict who enlists Lau to protect her from loan sharks, and eventually returns the favor in order for him to survive Nurse Lam's relentless assault.

Mother of a Different Kind

1995

Man of the Times poster
5.0

A look at the life and times of Chan Chi Chiu--an ambitious cop's journey to become the highest ranking officer in Hong Kong.

Man of the Times

1993

Three Summers poster
8.0

Three Summers opens, a young man with a difficult past leaves his present home in the city of Hong Kong and hearkens back to the fishing village of his youth. Against the backdrop of that locale, his young sister has recently befriended a group of adolescents who visit the isle perennially - every summer - and who share their individual stories with her. One tale at a time, she begins to experience life vicariously through the others' recollections.

Three Summers

1992

Treasure Island poster
6.2

A group of young Taipei residents is drawn into the city’s underworld through the growing obsession of one, the boyish Ah-feng, for the sexy Cantonese mistress of a gang boss.

Treasure Island

1993

Hong Kong Show Girls poster
5.0

A struggling acting troupe uses an old abandoned porno theater to rehearse. As one strange occurrence follows the next, it becomes clear that the hall is haunted by a dancer who died in a mysterious theater fire years ago.

Hong Kong Show Girls

1996