Belinda Hamnett (;

Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding are ...

: Hon Kwun-Ting) born 28 September 1975 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 ...

is an actress, model and ex-beauty queen. Being crowned

Miss Asia Pageant ATV Miss Asia Pageant () is an annual Hong Kong-based beauty pageant organized and broadcast by Asia Television (ATV). Originating in 1985 as a local Hong Kong pageant, the contest went on hiatus from the 2000 through 2003, and was re-branded as an ...

1997 effectively launched her career in the fashion and entertainment industry. The

model A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin ''modulus'', a measure. Models c ...

turned

film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...

lives in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

Personal life

Belinda Hamnett spent her childhood and teenage years in

where her father was stationed. Her father is English and her mother is Chinese. Hamnett resided in

Changi Changi () is a planning area located in the geographical region of Tanah Merah in the East Region of Singapore. Sharing borders with Pasir Ris and Tampines to the west, Changi Bay to the southeast, the South China Sea to the east and the Seran ...

, eastern Singapore, where she was a student at Changkat Changi Secondary School. Hamnett attended Sunday school at St Hilda's Church in Ceylon Road. Hamnett was awarded the title of Miss Asia in ATV's

held in Hong Kong in 1997. In 2006, Hamnett revealed that she has overcome

anorexia Anorexia nervosa, often referred to simply as anorexia, is an eating disorder characterized by low weight, food restriction, body image disturbance, fear of gaining weight, and an overpowering desire to be thin. ''Anorexia'' is a term of Gre ...

with the help of medical practitioners.Yahoo!
Hamnett commented, “Although my body has not reached the stage the doctors approve of, but I am already very pleased. I am very happy at the moment.”

Career

For several years she has been contracted with

TVB Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong SAR. The Company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and ...

and ATV Hong Kong broadcast companies and did several Cantonese based television series for them. She has also appeared in several movies and her photos have been featured in numerous fashion magazines. Belinda left TVB between 2005 and 2006 and was relatively silent within media and entertainment for a few years. In 2009, she returned to ATV for a new drama series. Hamnett resides in Singapore as of 2010.

Filmography

Television * ''

Women on the Run ''Women on the Run'' (Traditional Chinese: 窈窕熟女) is a TVB modern drama series broadcast in July 2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul ...

'' (2005) (TVB Series) Chu Chu * ''

Healing Hands III ''Healing Hands III'' is a 2005 Hong Kong medical drama television series, released following the success of '' Healing Hands'' and '' II'', on one of Hong Kong's main television channels, TVB. It is the third and last installment in the Healing H ...

'' (2005) (TVB Series) Martha * ''

My Family ''My Family'' is a British sitcom created and initially co-written by Fred Barron, which was produced by DLT Entertainment and Rude Boy Productions, and broadcast by BBC One for eleven series between 2000 and 2011, with Christmas specials broadc ...

'' (2005) (TVB Series) Akubi * ''

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'' (2004) (TVB Series) Mary Sok * ''

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'' (2003) (TVB Series) as Law Bik-kei *'' Divine Retribution'' (2000) (ATV Series) ... Cheng Miu-miu * ''

My Date with a Vampire II ''My Date with a Vampire II'' is a 2000 Hong Kong television series produced by ATV as a sequel to '' My Date with a Vampire'' (1998) even though it is a reboot of the original. It was followed by '' My Date with a Vampire III'' in 2004. The ser ...

'' (2000) (ATV Series) Si-nga Movies * ''

Troublesome Night 6 ''Troublesome Night 6'' is a 1999 Hong Kong horror comedy film produced by Nam Yin and directed by Herman Yau. It is the sixth of the 20 films in the ''Troublesome Night'' film series. Plot Four years ago, four paparazzi were stalking Kwok Si ...

'' (2000) * ''

Dance of a Dream ''Dance of a Dream'' () is a 2001 Hong Kong romantic comedy film co-produced and directed by the film's cinematographer, Andrew Lau and starring Andy Lau, Anita Mui and Sandra Ng. Plot Namson Lau (Andy Lau) is a ballroom dancing instructor. On ...

'' (2001) * ''

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'' (2002) - Kwun-Ting Hon * ''

Love For All Seasons Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love o ...

'' (2003) - Cat * ''

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'' (2003) * ''

Bless the Child ''Bless the Child'' is a 2000 supernatural horror film directed by Chuck Russell and starring Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Angela Bettis, Rufus Sewell, Christina Ricci, and Holliston Coleman. It follows a woman who discovers that her niece, w ...

'' (2003) * '' Men Suddenly in Black'' (2003)

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* ''

The Princess of Temple Street ''The Princess of Temple'' is a 2003 Hong Kong romantic comedy film directed by Ching Fung and starring Michael Tse and Tiffany Lee. The film was later re-issued as ''Laughing Lovers'' () after Tse's successful portrayal of "Laughing Gor" in the ...

'' (2003) * ''

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'' (2004) - Erotic Film Director * ''

Love is a Many Stupid Thing ''Love Is a Many Stupid Thing'' is a 2004 comedy film written, produced and directed by Wong Jing and starring Eric Tsang, Chapman To, Natalis Chan, Shawn Yue, Lam Chi-chung and Raymond Wong Ho-yin. The film is a parody of the 2002 hit film ''In ...

'' (2004) * '' Where is Mama's Boy?'' (2005) - The big sister

References

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