Michelle Alicia Saram () (born 12 December 1974) is a

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an actress & singer.

Education

Saram was educated at

CHIJ Katong Convent CHIJ Katong Convent (CHIJ – KC) is a government-aided autonomous Catholic girls' secondary school in Marine Parade, Singapore. The school is one of 11 Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (CHIJ) schools in Singapore. Katong Convent is known for prov ...

Temasek Junior College Temasek Junior College (TJC) is a government-run junior college located in Bedok South, Singapore. It offers a six-year Integrated Programme alongside a two-year Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level curriculum. History Temasek Junior Coll ...

and

Nanyang Technological University The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a national research university in Singapore. It is the second oldest autonomous university in the country and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in the world by various in ...

where she majored in Mass Communications. She was awarded the Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award by her ''alma mater'' in 2006.

Career

Saram joined the entertainment industry after co-starring in an ad for One2Free with Hong Kong star

Aaron Kwok Aaron Kwok Fu-shing (born 26 October 1965) is a Hong Kong singer, dancer and actor. Active since the 1980s, Kwok is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Hong Kong pop music. Dubbed the "God of Dance", Kwok's onstage dancing is influenc ...

. She joined MediaCorp and won the Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes award twice. She has also starred in foreign drama series such Taiwanese series '' Meteor Garden'' and in several Hong Kong dramas. She is one of the few actresses who have played leading roles in

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, and

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television serials. Saram left the industry to concentrate on running her food and beverage business. 16 years later, she collaborated with

Louis Koo Louis Koo Tin-lok ( zh, t=古天樂; born 21 October 1970) is a Hong Kong people, Hong Kong actor, singer and film producer. He began his professional career as an actor in local television series, winning TVB's Best Actor award in 1999 and 2001 ...

in Paradox. Shortly after, Saram left the industry again to concentrate on running her food and beverage business. She is set to appear in the upcoming film

Back to the Past ''Back to the Past'' (Chinese: 尋秦記) is an upcoming Hong Kong historical fiction, historical science fiction film, science fiction Hong Kong action cinema, action film directed by Ng Yuen-fai and Jack Lai, with stage combat, action direct ...

. Sing Tao News. 16 March 2021

Personal life

Saram's father was

Indian Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asia ...

, and her mother was Chinese. She is married to Ajai Lauw-Zecha, a

Chinese Indonesian Chinese Indonesians ( id, Orang Tionghoa Indonesia) and colloquially Chindo or just Tionghoa are Indonesians whose ancestors arrived from China at some stage in the last eight centuries. Chinese people and their Indonesian descendants have ...

socialite and the son of businessman Adrian Lauw-Zecha, founder of

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and a scion of the

Lauw-Sim-Zecha family The Lauw-Sim-Zecha family is an Indonesian family of the 'Cabang Atas' or the Chinese gentry of the Dutch East Indies (colonial Indonesia). They came to prominence at the start of the nineteenth century as '' Pachters'' (revenue farmers), '' La ...

, part of the

Cabang Atas The Cabang Atas (''Van Ophuijsen Spelling System'': Tjabang Atas) — literally 'highest branch' in Indonesian language, Indonesian — was the traditional Chinese establishment or gentry of Dutch East Indies, colonial Indonesia. They were the fa ...

or Chinese gentry of colonial Indonesia. After she married him, she decided to retire as an

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 (), li ...

and to focus solely on her marriage life.

Filmography

Television

Film

Accolades

References

External links

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Michelle Saram Fan Site
1974 births Living people Lauw-Sim-Zecha family Cabang Atas Singaporean people of Chinese descent Singaporean people of Indian descent Temasek Junior College alumni Nanyang Technological University alumni Singaporean born Hong Kong artists {{HongKong-actor-stub