Flora Chan Wai-shan (

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:陳慧珊, born May 30, 1970 in

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), is an American actress active primarily in Hong Kong television and film. Along with

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, and

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" (term used for actresses with high popularity) of TVB from the mid-1990s to mid-2000s.

Biography

Chan was born in

, whose father,Walter Chan, was a dance director of

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and mother,Cecilia Harrison, was daughter of a British merchant. Her family emigrated to Boston，United States when she was 5. As a child, she had hoped to become a

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, but because of an injury when she was a teenager, she was forced to abandon her dreams as a professional dancer. She attended

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and earned a

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Profile
classmates.com; accessed July 25, 2015. before returning to Hong Kong in the early 1990s with her then-husband, Chung Wai Ming (鍾偉明). She and her first husband divorced in 2001. Chan married her manager Mike Chung Ka-hung (鍾家鴻) in 2006. The couple have one child. Rather than getting her start from modelling or a beauty pageant, the

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, (香港小姐競選) which provides actresses for HK's television station,

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 ...

, Chan was a reporter for the

English Channel,

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. In the mid-1990s, television director Teng Dak-Hei asked her to participate in his upcoming series, the fifth installment to the popular TVB drama series, ''

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''. Chan's performance in this series about young, yuppie lawyers caught the attention of the HK audience, and TVB. She joined as a TVB actress and has since made other series, most notably ''

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'', playing the calm and collected forensics doctor, "Pauline Lip"; and in '' Healing Hands'', a TVB series known for its cutting edge

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topics. In 2002, Chan won the coveted "Most Favourite TV Actress" award presented annually by TVB. Having already starred in various TVB dramas, she is no longer signed on with TVB as a full-time

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 ...

. In November 2006, Chan announced she would be returning to film a TVB serial in February 2007.

Filmography

TV series

Film

Discography

*Flora Chan (2000) *自在 (2001) *愛得起 (2002)

References

External links

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