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Cheng Pei-pei | |||||||||||||||
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| 鄭佩佩 | |||||||||||||||
 Cheng in 2014 | |||||||||||||||
| Born | Jiang Pei-pei 6 January 1946 Shanghai, China | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 17 July 2024 (aged 78) San Francisco Bay Area, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Actress | ||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1963–2020 | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Yuan Wen-tung
(m. 1970; div. 1987) | ||||||||||||||
| Children | 4, including Eugenia Yuan | ||||||||||||||
| Awards | Hong Kong Film Awards – Best Supporting Actress 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | ||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鄭佩佩 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 郑佩佩 | ||||||||||||||
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Cheng Pei-pei (6 January 1946 – 17 July 2024) was an actress, appearing mainly in Hong Kong films. Popularly known as "Queen of Swords" and "Queen of Martial Arts Films", Cheng starred in numerous successful wuxia and martial arts films in Hong Kong, and is widely considered cinema's first female action hero.[1][2][3][4][5] During her six-decade career, Cheng starred in over 110 movies and 50 television series.[6]
Born in Shanghai, Cheng moved to Hong Kong in 1962 and joined Shaw Brothers Studio in 1963. The wuxia film Come Drink with Me (1966) launched Cheng into superstardom, making her Hong Kong's first official kung fu screen queen. She went on to appear in the films Dragon Creek (1966), The Thundering Sword (1967), Jade Raksha (1968), Golden Swallow (1968), Shadow Whip (1970), and Lady Hermit (1971), which made her a star of kung fu films.[7][8] She stepped away from acting after her marriage and moved to the United States in 1970, but returned to acting after divorcing in 1987, notably in Flirting Scholar (1993) and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), for which she won a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress.[9] Late in her career, she gained renewed popularity through the Chinese reality show Divas Hit the Road (2014).
In addition to her Chinese-language works, Cheng also appeared in English-language productions, including Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009), Lifting (2014), Meditation Park (2017) and Mulan (2020). She was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 61st Golden Horse Awards.
- ^ https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1015553
- ^ https://focustaiwan.tw/culture/202407190018
- ^ Lim, Ruey Yan (19 July 2024). "Cheng Pei-pei, star of Come Drink With Me and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, dies at 78". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/aug/01/cheng-pei-pei-obituary
- ^ "The First Female Action Hero (Cheng Pei-pei's Movies Explained)". Screen Rant. 24 October 2020.
- ^ "Golden Horse Awards: Legendary actress, cinematographer receive lifetime achievement awards - Focus Taiwan". Focus Taiwan - CNA English News. 23 November 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
- ^ https://www.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/index.php?p=article&article=333
- ^ Tam, Arthur (31 March 2015). "Cheng Pei-pei (鄭佩佩) on Ang Lee and her iconic roles with Shaw Studios". Time Out Hong Kong. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
- ^ https://amp.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3271071/cheng-pei-pei-chinese-martial-arts-star-decades-long-career-dies-78