Lisa Chiao Chiao, often credited as Chiao Chiao (; born Chiao Li-na (焦莉娜); 6 March 1943), is a Taiwanese

film actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a 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 term is (), lite ...

best known for her work in

Hong Kong cinema The cinema of Hong Kong ( zh, t=香港電影) is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former British colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of po ...

Background

Born in

Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...

, on 6 March 1943, Her family moved to

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

in 1949. She took up acting in 1961. In 1963, Chiao married Huang Tsung-hsing, the following year Huang left for

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 ...

to join the

Shaw Brothers Studio Shaw Brothers (HK) Ltd. () was the largest film production company in Hong Kong, and operated from 1925 to 2011. In 1925, three Shaw brothers— Runje, Runme, and Runde—founded Tianyi Film Company (also called "Unique") in Shangh ...

while Chiao remained in Taiwan to continue acting. In 1966 Huang got into a car accident and Chiao moved to Hong Kong to look after him. There Chiao was invited to join the Shaw Brothers Studio, when she acted in the ''

One-Armed Swordsman ''One-Armed Swordsman'' is a 1967 Hong Kong ''wuxia'' film produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. Directed by Chang Cheh, it was the first of the new style of ''wuxia'' films emphasizing male anti-heroes, violent swordplay and heavy bloodletting ...

'' alongside

Jimmy Wang Yu Jimmy Wang Yu (; born Wang Zheng Quan; 28 March 1943 – 5 April 2022) was a Hong Kong-Taiwanese martial artist, actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. Initially a contract player for Shaw Brothers, he rose to fame for his starring ...

, which met with an unexpected success. She later appeared in films such as '' The Assassin'', ''

Return of the One-Armed Swordsman ''Return of the One-Armed Swordsman'', also known as ''One-Armed Swordsman Return'', is a 1969 Hong Kong ''wuxia'' film directed by Chang Cheh and produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. The film is a sequel to the 1967 film ''One-Armed Swordsman' ...

'' and ''

A Cause to Kill ''A Cause to Kill'' or ''Sha Ji'' is a 1970 Hong Kong Shaw Brothers thriller film directed by Murayama Mitsuo. Cast * Chiao Chiao - Su Su. *Gwan Gam *Wai Ha *Pak-Kwong Ho *Chung-Shun Huang * Shan Kwan - Chang Li De. * Ivy Ling Po Huang ...

''. In 1972 she left the studio and briefly returned to Taiwan, where she made some television appearances. In 1976 while Huang was riding a motorbike in Taiwan, he got into a second car accident, however this time he did not survive. Chiao lived alone with her son in Hong Kong. She worked more extensively behind the scenes, most notably as a dubber. She then went on to appear in several Hong Kong films in the 1980s and 1990s, with her last appearance in the 1998 picture '' Bishonen'', making some 50 appearances between 1964 and 1998. In 1994, she married Hong Kong actor

Kenneth Tsang Kenneth Tsang Kong (; 5 October 1934 – 27 April 2022) was a Hong Kong actor. Tsang's career spanned 50 years and included a variety of acting roles. Tsang won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2015. Early ...

. In 2009, she appeared in ''Prince of Tears'' directed by

Yonfan Yonfan (born 14 October 1947) is a Hong Kong film director and photographer. Biography He was born in Wuhan, Hubei, Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China. As the Yang family emigrated from mainland China, they lived first in Hong Kong ...

. It showed at film festivals in Venice and Toronto in 2009.

References

External links

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Lisa Chiao Chiao at hkcinemamagic.comYonfan's home page
Taiwanese film actresses Hong Kong film actresses Shaw Brothers Studio 1943 births Living people Actresses from Chongqing Taiwanese people from Chongqing {{Taiwan-actor-stub