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List Of British Chinese People
This article is a list of prominent people of Chinese ancestry who were born in or have settled in the United Kingdom. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are British Chinese or must have references showing they are British Chinese and are notable. Academia * Kevin Fong, professor of medicine, UCL academic. * Charles K. Kao, KBE, Nobel Prize in Physics, pioneer in the development and use of fibre-optics in telecommunications Acting * Leah Bracknell, actress and yoga teacher, Eurasian, English father and Chinese-Malaysian mother * Gemma Chan, actress * Julia Chan, actress * Lobo Chan, actor * Maggie Cheung, actress * Tsai Chin, actress and singer, first Chinese Bond girl * Vera Chok, actress * Christina Chong, actress * China Chow, actress and model * Paul Courtenay Hyu, actor, writer and Elvis impersonator, Eurasian * Linda Louise Duan, actress * Jon Foo, actor and wushu martial artist * Mona Hammond, actress * Jessica He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Chok
Vera Chok is a Malaysian actress and writer based in the United Kingdom, who has featured in various stage, screen and radio roles. Since December 2021, she has played Honour Chen-Williams in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks''. Early and personal life Chok was born in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, of Chinese ancestry. After attending Assunta Primary and Secondary schools in Malaysia and Abbots Bromley School in Staffordshire, she graduated from The Queen's College, Oxford, before training as an actor at the Poor School in London and with Philippe Gaulier in Paris. Chok identifies as queer and uses she/they pronouns. Career Chok's main theatre roles have included parts in the award-winning Lucy Kirkwood play ''Chimerica'' (2013), as part of the original cast at the Almeida and Harold Pinter theatres and in ''The World of Extreme Happiness'' (The Shed at the National Theatre, 2013), in which she co-starred with Katie Leung. Chok played the part of Ming Ming, a female migrant work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Mei Li
Jessica Mei Li (born 27 August 1995) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Alina Starkov in the Netflix fantasy series '' Shadow and Bone''. Early life and education Li was born in Brighton, East Sussex to an English mother and a Hong Kong-Chinese father. She grew up in Redhill, Surrey and has an older brother. Li attended Reigate College from 2010 to 2012 and began studying French and Spanish at the University of Sussex, but eventually dropped out. For nearly two years, Li worked as a teaching assistant for children with special needs at secondary school. Li joined the National Youth Theatre in 2015 and trained part-time at Identity School of Acting from 2016 to 2017. Career Li made her professional stage debut in February 2019 playing the role of Claudia Casswell in ''All About Eve'' at Noel Coward Theatre, directed and adapted for the stage by Ivo van Hove, alongside Gillian Anderson and Lily James. In October 2019, it was announced Li would star i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Leung
Katie Leung (born 8 August 1987; ) is a Scottish actress. Initially famous for playing Cho Chang, the titular character's first love interest in the ''Harry Potter'' film series, she is also known for her roles as Caitlyn in the animated series ''Arcane'' and Ash in the sci-fi series ''The Peripheral''. In 2012, Leung made her stage debut in the play ''Wild Swans'', and has since appeared in many other stage productions. Leung has an interest in the arts, having studied painting and design at the University of the Arts London, and has degrees in photography from Edinburgh College of Art and theatre from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Early life Leung was born in Dundee, Scotland, to Peter Leung, a Hong Kong-born businessman and restaurateur who opened a company in Glasgow, and Kar Wai Li, a banker. Her parents divorced when she was three, and she continued living in Scotland with her father, stepmother, and siblings after her mother moved back to Hong Kong. Leung's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pui Fan Lee
Pui Fan Lee (born ) is a British-born Chinese actress and presenter. Along with Sue Monroe, Chris Jarvis, and Sidney Sloane she was one of the first presenters on CBeebies, the BBC television channel for younger children. She is known for portraying Po in the original 1997–2001 run of the children's television series Teletubbies, and for presenting the CBeebies preschool education series ''Show Me Show Me''. Lee's family came from Hong Kong. She was born in Birmingham, and grew up in Nottingham. She moved to London to study drama. She took on the role of Po shortly after leaving Drama school. She was the first presenter, alongside Chris Jarvis to introduce programming on the BBC digital channel CBeebies. Lee lives in North London. In 2004, Lee had a minor role as a Thai jail girl in the 2004 film '' Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason''. In 2006 Lee presented The BBC programme Fun with Phonics. In 2019, she made a guest appearance in the British soap opera ''EastEnders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burt Kwouk
Herbert Tsangtse Kwouk, (; ; 18 July 1930 – 24 May 2016) was a British actor, known for his role as Cato in the ''Pink Panther'' films. He made appearances in many television programmes, including a portrayal of Imperial Japanese Army Major Yamauchi in the British drama series '' Tenko'' and as Entwistle in ''Last of the Summer Wine''. Early life Kwouk was born on 18 July 1930 in Warrington, Lancashire, to Chinese parents; his parents were on a business trip touring Europe. He was brought up in Shanghai; his father was a textile tycoon descended from a Tang dynasty general. Between the ages of 12 and 16, he attended the Shanghai Jesuit Mission School, which he described as "the Far East equivalent" of Eton College. He left China in 1947 when his parents returned to Britain, and was sent to the United States to complete his education. In 1953, he graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. The Kwouk family fortune was lost in the Chinese communist revolution in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandrine Holt
Sandrine Claire Holt (born Sandrine Vanessa Ho; 19 November 1972) is a British-born Canadian model and actress. Early life Holt was born Sandrine Vanessa Ho in Croydon. Her middle name was later changed to Claire. Her father, Man Shun ("Horace") Ho, is Chinese. Ho was educated at the University of London, receiving a (B.Sc Physics and Applied Mathematics; M.Sc Computer Science). Her mother, Christiane (née Nicolette), is French. At age five, she and her family moved to Toronto, Canada. Holt attended St. Joseph's Morrow Park Catholic Secondary School in Willowdale. She worked as a runway model in Paris before she became an actress. Her younger sister is model and designer Adrianne Ho. Acting-career Holt's acting debut, credited as Sandrine Ho, was in a 1989 episode of '' Friday the 13th: The Series'' entitled "Face of Evil". Her feature film debut was in '' Black Robe'' in 1991. Subsequent film and television appearances include roles in '' Rapa-Nui'', '' Once a Thief'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Henwick
Jessica Yu-Li Henwick (born 30 August 1992) is a BAFTA nominated English actress, writer and director. She is known for her roles as Nymeria Sand in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'' (2015–2017), X-wing pilot Jessika Pava in the film '' Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' (2015), Colleen Wing in the Marvel Television series '' Iron Fist'' (2017–2018), and List of Matrix series characters#Bugs, Bugs in the film ''The Matrix Resurrections'' (2021). Early life Henwick was born and raised in Surrey, England, the daughter of a Chinese Singaporeans, Singaporean-Chinese mother of Teochew people, Teochew descent and an English people, English father. Her father, Mark, is an author. She has an older and a younger brother. She trained briefly at Redroofs Theatre School and the National Youth Theatre. Career In June 2009, it was announced that Henwick had been cast in the lead role of Bo for the BBC show Spirit Warriors (TV series), ''Spirit Warriors'', making her the first actress o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Hammond
Mona Hammond (born Mavis Chin; 1 January 1931 – 4 July 2022) was a Jamaican-British actress and co-founder of the Talawa Theatre Company. Born in Tweedside, Jamaica, Tweedside Map, Google. Retrieved 5 July 2022. Hammond emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1959, where she lived for the rest of her life. Hammond had a long and distinguished stage career. She was best known for her work on British television and played Blossom Jackson in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. Hammond was made an OBE in the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama. In 2018, she was awarded the Women of the World Lifetime Achievement Award for her long and distinguished theatre career and for championing Black British actors with the Talawa Theatre Company. Early life < ...
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Jon Foo
Jonathan Patrick Foo (born 30 October 1982) is a Singaporean–English actor, martial artist and stunt performer known for his role as Jin Kazama in the 2009 live action film ''Tekken''. . Early life Foo was born in London to a Chinese Singaporean father and an Irish-English mother. He has a younger sister and two half-sisters on his father's side. His family constantly moved. Inspired by his father's interest in karate and mother's interest in judo, he began training in kung fu. Foo now trains in mixed styles. He went from performing at festivals with the London Chinese Acrobats (Gangs of New York) to signing with one of the biggest film companies in Asia. Career Being a practitioner of wushu, he has starred in ''Tom-Yum-Goong'' (US title: ''The Protector''), ''Batman Begins'', ''House of Fury'', '' Left for Dead'', and ''Life'' (''Shi cha qi xiao shi''). He also performs stunts for other actors. He is perhaps best known for playing the role of Jin Kazama in the 2009 live act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Louise Duan
Linda Louise Duan (born 13 December 1993) is a British actress. Early life and education After A-levels, Linda became interested in performing after taking a mime course with Desmond Jones: "Desmond was the man who got me to reconsider my options of pursuing something outside of a standard degree... He later went on and told me about other specialist schools that I would not have known much about... I thought about it carefully and decided to talk to my Dad about this possibility....with his blessing, I went down that road!" After graduating, Duan began to audition for more roles. Career Duan was in Israel when she was contacted by assistant director Holly Gardner to audition for a secret project. When she learned that it involved Marvel Studios, she immediately flew back to London to audition. She eventually learned that it was ''Doctor Strange'' and began to research her character Tina Minoru. Duan found the role invigorating despite the character's limited appearance, but hopes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elvis Impersonator
An Elvis impersonator is an entertainer who impersonates or copies the look and sound of American musician and singer Elvis Presley. Professional Elvis impersonators, commonly known as Elvis tribute artists (ETAs), work all over the world as entertainers, and such tribute acts remain in great demand due to the unique iconic status of Elvis. There are even several radio stations that exclusively feature Elvis impersonator material. Some of these impersonators go to Graceland on the anniversary of Presley's death to make their personal tribute to the artist. Many impersonators sing Presley's songs. While some impersonators perform a wide variety of Presley's discography, his songs from the 1950s and 1970s remain fan favourites. Origins Contrary to popular belief, Elvis impersonators have existed since the mid-1950s, just after Elvis Presley himself began his career. The first known Elvis impersonator was a young man named Carl 'Cheesie' Nelson from Texarkana, Arkansas, who in 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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