Carol Chu Lai-chien (born Chu Lai-hing; 6 April 1966) is a Malaysian entertainer and former model. She is the wife of Hong Kong actor and singer Andy Lau, whom she married in 2008.

Background

She was born Chu Lai-hing in

Penang Penang ( ms, Pulau Pinang, is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia, by the Malacca Strait. It has two parts: Penang Island, where the capital city, George Town, is located, and Seberang Perai on the Malay ...

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. Her family were

Hoklo people The Hoklo people or Hokkien people () are a Han Chinese (also Han Taiwanese) subgroup who speak Hokkien, a Southern Min language, or trace their ancestry to Southeastern Fujian, China and known by various endonyms or other related terms such a ...

descended from the

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Fujian Province Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its cap ...

of China. While she was still young, her family moved to

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. Chu first started out as a model, and later in 1985, she contested in the Malaysian New Tide beauty pageant and emerged as a third runner-up in the contest. On the following year in 1986, she was introduced to Hong Kong actor and singer Andy Lau, supposedly by the Hong Kong singer Sally Yeh (). However, sources often indicated that it was Lau's manager Cheung Kwok-chung (), who happens to be a relative of Chu. From 1991 onwards, Lau's secret relationship with her was often subjected to media attentions and speculations. Chu became a

vegetarian Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slaughter. Vegetarianism m ...

in 2004. Lau and Chu were discreetly married at

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, on 23 June 2008. Their daughter, Hanna Lau, was born at the

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in Hong Kong on 9 May 2012. In 2013, Lau, being devoted to Chu, became a vegetarian as well. Their three-year-old daughter was first revealed by the Next Magazine on 8 April 2015 while they were at the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chu, Carol 1966 births Living people People from Penang Malaysian people of Hokkien descent Malaysian people of Chinese descent Malaysian female models Malaysian Buddhists