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Christy Chung (simplified Chinese: 钟丽缇; traditional Chinese: 鍾麗緹; Mandarin Pinyin: Zhōng Lìtí; Jyutping: Zung1 Lai6 Tai6; Vietnamese: Chung Lệ Đề, born 19 September 1970) is Chinese-Canadian actress. She was born in Montreal to a Chinese father and a Vietnamese mother.
Chung grew up in Brossard, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, with French and Vietnamese as mother-tongues. She later learned English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
While studying for a career in the tourism industry at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), she entered and won the "Miss Chinese Montreal"... MORE
Christy Chung (simplified Chinese: 钟丽缇; traditional Chinese: 鍾麗緹; Mandarin Pinyin: Zhōng Lìtí; Jyutping: Zung1 Lai6 Tai6; Vietnamese: Chung Lệ Đề, born 19 September 1970) is Chinese-Canadian actress. She was born in Montreal to a Chinese father and a Vietnamese mother.
Chung grew up in Brossard, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, with French and Vietnamese as mother-tongues. She later learned English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
While studying for a career in the tourism industry at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), she entered and won the "Miss Chinese Montreal" contest in 1992. She then went to Hong Kong, in her first trip away from home, to participate in the Miss Chinese International Pageant 1993, in which she won despite not knowing a single Chinese word. This opened doors for her to launch her acting career there, despite not speaking a word of Cantonese at the time, and despite her extremely limited acting experience (an uncredited ten-second non-speaking role as a gum-chewing prostitute in Denys Arcand's Love and Human Remains). She had to choose between acting in Hong Kong and becoming the weather-forecast presenter at Société Radio-Canada, the French-language government LESS
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