Gaile Lai (), born Lai Ga Yi () on 22 August 1980, better known as Gaile Lok, is a Hong Kong actress and model. She was born in
Macau
Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...
to a Chinese father and a
Vietnamese
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* Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia
** A citizen of Vietnam. See Demographics of Vietnam.
* Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam
** Overse ...
mother. Gaile studied in the United States.
Background
Gaile Lok is of
Chinese-Vietnamese descent as her mother is Kinh Vietnamese. She was born in Macau but grew up in USA. She made her film debut starring in the 2000 romantic film, ''I Do'', and subsequently appeared in another film entitled ''My Sweetie'' in 2004. When she made her debut, some Hong Kong entertainment information magazines had compared her likeness to that of
Shu Qi
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, a Taiwanese actress. In 2005, she openly admitted to had performed breast augmentation surgery, but reverted shortly as they take too much load on the back.
Personal life
As of 2006, Gaile was dating
Leon Lai
Leon Lai Ming SBS BBS MH (born 11 December 1966), is a Hong Kong actor, film director, businessman and Cantopop singer. He is one of the " Four Heavenly Kings" of Hong Kong pop music. He uses his Chinese name "Li Ming" or "Lai Ming", whi ...
, a Hong Kong actor and singer. With this relationship, she became a target of
paparazzi
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and the media. In 2006, a magazine published an article and intimate photographs of her with Leon Lai at the latter's residence, prompting the
Hong Kong Actors Guild to protest "irresponsibility" on the part of the magazine.
In 2009, Lok and Lai were secretly married in Las Vegas at the Wynn Hotel, with his manager and assistant acting as witnesses.
On 3 October 2012 the couple announced the end of their four-year marriage. Their joint statement stated that there were "different philosophies in life" which caused the divorce. Leon Lai's manager stated that there was not a third party that lead the couple to divorce.
Lok married businessman Ian Chu in 2017. Their son, Hunter, was born on 29 April 2019.
References
External links
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1980 births
Living people
20th-century Hong Kong actresses
21st-century Hong Kong actresses
20th-century Macau people
21st-century Macau people
Hong Kong female models
Hong Kong film actresses
Hong Kong people of Hoa descent
Hong Kong people of Vietnamese descent
Hong Kong television actresses
Macau-born Hong Kong artists