Mary Jean Reimer (born 22 May 1964), also known as Yung Jing-Jing, is a Hong Kong

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and actress. She has American-Chinese-Vietnamese ancestry.

Early life and film career

Reimer was born in

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(or the United States) to an American father and Hoa mother. Her family moved to Hong Kong in 1965. She began her acting career with the TV series ''The Youth'' (年青人) and in 1980, she co-starred with

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in Clifford Choi's youth drama ''Encore'' (喝采). She reached her foremost fame with fantasy ''

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'' films, among which is ''

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'' (楊過與小龍女) where she played the title character

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. Reimer ended her acting career after marriage to

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in 1984. She has two daughters, Jeanne, born 1986, and Rosemary, born 1989, with him.

Later career

Reimer started to work as an insurance consultant in 1989. She graduated from the

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School of Professional and Continuing Education in 1996 and began her career as a solicitor after her exam for her insurance agent qualifications has sections with regards to law, in which she scored 92 points. Reimer owned her business Reimer & Partners. In 2014, she retired after developing

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from the physical and emotional stress from being a solicitor. Reimer was also renowned as a TV and radio host and as a freelance writer with a newspaper column, ''Dangerous Persons''. Reimer is a practising Buddhist who used to sit on the board of Ting Wai Monastery. She exposed Sik Chi Ding, the abbess, for mishandling millions of Hong Kong dollars in donations and sham marriages with two monks for residency purposes. She has also been active in exposing the practice of fake monks begging in Hong Kong and foreign cities. Reimer married her longtime boyfriend Sean Eric Mclean Hotung in May 2018.

References

External links

Mary Jean Reimer Lau
official website
Yung Jing-Jing
at the

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Mary Jean Reimer
at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reimer, Mary Jean Living people 1964 births Alumni of the University of Hong Kong American emigrants to Hong Kong Hong Kong people of American descent Hong Kong people of Hoa descent Hong Kong film actresses Solicitors of Hong Kong Hong Kong women lawyers 20th-century Hong Kong actresses Vietnamese people of American descent Vietnamese-born Hong Kong artists