Maggie Chen (born Chen Wenjun on 24 September 1955) is a

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 ...

-born Chinese actress known for her role as Xiaoqing () in the TV series ''

New Legend of Madame White Snake ''New Legend of Madame White Snake'' (Chinese: ) is a 1992 TV series starring Angie Chiu and Cecilia Yip. It is based on the Chinese folk legend ''Legend of the White Snake''. First shown on Taiwan Television in 1992, the series was broadcast on C ...

'' and other roles in movies such as '' Supercop 2''. She is also a philanthropist,

polyglot Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingualism, monolingual speakers in the World population, world's pop ...

, an author, and a singer-songwriter. She has written and performed her own songs such as "Luo Min Ye" () and the movie song "Qing Si Qian Wo Xin" (). She has written the books "Wo de Yeman Jimu" () and "Yi Shuang Fei Wang Guangming de Chibang" (). She is proficient in Japanese, French, English, Cantonese, and Mandarin. Outside the entertainment industry, she is known for her volunteer work and role as a public education figure. Because of her decades of charity work, she has become known as the "mother of angels." She attended the

University of Macau The University of Macau (UM; Portuguese: ''Universidade de Macau'', Chinese: 澳門大學) is an internationalised public comprehensive university in Macau. The UM campus is located in the east of Hengqin Island, Guangdong province in Mainland ...

, graduating in 1987 with an MBA. In 1999, she married a Chinese-American businessman named Xin Shangyong (), and in 2008 they adopted a daughter from

Shanxi Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...

named Lucia.

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