Amanda Strang () also known as Amanda S is a French actress, singer, presenter and former fashion model based in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

. She appeared in 2001 movie ''

Martial Angels ''Martial Angels'' () is a 2001 Hong Kong film directed by Clarence Fok Yiu-leung. The film has been described as part of the "girls with guns revival" cycle of the early 2000s. Other films in this subgenre included ''The Wesley's Mysteriou ...

'' and was a presenter on the food related television show ''Market Trotter''. In 2011 she opened her own French

pâtisserie A () is a type of Italian, French or Belgian bakery that specializes in pastries and sweets, as well as a term for such food items. In some countries, it is a legally controlled title that may only be used by bakeries that employ a licensed ...

''petiteAmanda'' in Hong Kong.

Biography

Strang was born in 1980 in

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to a

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father and a

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mother. Being raised in Hong Kong, she moved with her family to

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at age nine before starting to model and subsequently entering the film industry. Over the course of eight years she appeared in five different films and became a presenter on the food lifestyle show ''Market Trotter'' with food critic

Chua Lam Chua Lam (also known as Mandarin: Tsai Lan, Cantonese: Choi Lan, Teochew: Chùa Lāng) (simplified Chinese: , traditional Chinese: , born 1941 in Singapore) is a Singaporean columnist, food critic, and occasional television host based in Hong K ...

. Here she was convinced by Lam to pursue her dream of opening her own bakery. After graduating from the Paris-based culinary school

Le Cordon Bleu Le Cordon Bleu (French for " The Blue Ribbon") is an international network of hospitality and culinary schools teaching French ''haute cuisine''. Its educational focuses are hospitality management, culinary arts, and gastronomy. The instituti ...

in 2010 she apprenticed at French bakery

Ladurée Pâtisserie E. Ladurée, commonly known as Ladurée (), is a French manufacturer and retailer of high-end pastries and candy, which was established in 1862. It is one of the world's best-known sellers of the double-decker macaron, 15,000 of wh ...

and the ''Caprice'' at the

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in Hong Kong. A year later Strang opened her own

''petiteAmanda'' in the IFC serving a range of French pastries and desserts.

Filmography

* 2001 — ''

'' * 2001 — ''Final Romance'' * 2002 — ''

Beauty and the Breast ''Beauty and the Breast'' () is a 2002 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Raymond Yip, and starring Francis Ng, Michelle Reis and Daniel Wu. Synopsis The story is about Mario (Ng), who is an office loafer who specializes in praising and pleasing ...

'' * 2007 — ''Sum seung si sing'' * 2008 — ''A Decade of Love''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Strang, Amanda 1980 births People from Tahiti French actresses French female models French Polynesian people of Taiwanese descent Hong Kong actresses Hong Kong female models 21st-century Hong Kong women singers Living people 21st-century French women singers