Phua Leng Leng (born 25 June 1970), better known as Pan Lingling, is a
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
an actress.
Career
Pan entered the entertainment industry in 1988 after graduating from the
Singapore Broadcasting Corporation
Mediacorp Pte. Ltd., doing business as Mediacorp and stylised as mediacorp, is a media conglomerate in Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the holding company of the Government of Singapore—it owns television, radio, and digital media prope ...
's 8th Drama Artiste Training Course.
Her classmates in the training course include award-winning actress
Huang Biren
Huang Biren (born 7 March 1969) is a Singaporean actress best known for appearing in numerous MediaCorp Channel 8 television dramas. She was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 1988 to 2008, but continues to film on an ad-hoc basis.
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, Madeline Chu and Sean Say. She made her TV debut with the series, ''Mystery'', ''Golden Quest'', ''Ups and Downs''. She also starred in ''Strange Encounters II'' in the same year.
Pan has acted in numerous television series produced by
MediaCorp Channel 8
Channel 8 ( zh, 8頻道) is a Singaporean free-to-air television channel, airing in Mandarin Chinese. It was created by Mediacorp, Television Singapura on 31 August 1963 with experimental broadcasts, before going official on 23 November that ye ...
and its predecessors. She also played a supporting role as a psychologist in
Jackie Chan
Fang Shilong (born 7 April 1954), known professionally in English as Jackie Chan and in Chinese as Cheng Long ( zh, c=成龍, j=Sing4 Lung4; "becoming the dragon"), is a Hong Kong actor, filmmaker, martial artist, and stuntman known for ...
's ''
Crime Story''.
After some twenty years in the entertainment industry, she won her first accolade at the
Star Awards 2011
Star Awards 2011 (Chinese: 红星大奖 2011) was a double television award ceremony held in Singapore. It is part of the annual ''Star Awards'' organised by MediaCorp for the two free-to-air channels, MediaCorp Channel 8 and MediaCorp Channel U ...
, the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in ''
Breakout''.
Pan has gotten 6 out of 10
Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes from 1994, 1997-1998, 2000, 2018-2019 respectively.
Personal life
Pan married fellow MediaCorp actor Huang Shinan in 1997. They have two sons, Beckham Wee (born 1999) and Kynaston Wee (born 2002).
Pan was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer in March 2013.
She kept her illness from the media initially, revealing only that a cyst was removed from her breast. She approached the magazine ''
8 Days'' in May that year for an interview on her illness, but withdrew. Her cancer story was revealed only nearly a year later in the 1,222th issue of ''8 Days'' in late March 2014.
Filmography
Television
Film
Discography
Compilation album
Award s and nominations
References
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20th-century Singaporean actresses
21st-century Singaporean actresses
Singaporean television actresses
Singaporean film actresses
1970 births
Living people
Singaporean people of Teochew descent