Victoria Loke (; born 11 February 1992) is a Singaporean actress, activist, and model. She is best known for her role as Fiona Tung-Cheng in the 2018 romantic comedy-drama film ''
Crazy Rich Asians
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''.
Early life and education
Victoria Loke was born and raised in Singapore. She began taking drama and speech classes as a child to overcome shyness. She began training in classical ballet when she was five and Tae Kwon Do when she was eight. She also studied guitar, piano, and percussion.
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She moved to New York City to attend ]New York University
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In 1832, th ...
's Gallatin School of Individualized Study
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, studying Asian cognitive decoloniality.
Career
She first appeared in music videos for Talib Kweli
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, Anthony Cruz, and Natural Elements. She modelled in brand campaigns and commercials for international street-ware labels and website pictorials for Coca-Cola
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, MTV, Avon, Hypebeast, ''Swagger New York'', RADO LOUNGE, ''Bastards of Young Indonesia'', and ''Dismagazine''.Emily Weiss
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of ''Into the Gloss'', Loke stated that early in her career she was often cast as a girlfriend of Caucasian male characters in commercials, modelling campaigns, and independent short films and rarely saw Asian women in main roles, instead seeing Asian women portrayed as girlfriends, service attendants, or stewardesses.[
In 2014 Loke co-founded ''#AsianGirl'', a collaborative art series focused on dissecting Western hyper-sexualisation of Eastern bodies and challenging reductive stereotypes assigned to Asian womanhood.][
After graduating from New York University, Loke moved back to Singapore and auditioned for the role of Kitty Pong in the 2018 film '']Crazy Rich Asians
''Crazy Rich Asians'' is a satirical 2013 romantic comedy novel by Kevin Kwan. Kwan stated that his intention in writing the novel was to "introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience". He claimed the novel was loosely based on h ...
''.UN Women
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, which focuses on gender equality and female empowerment.[ She has advocated for the rights of sex workers and domestic workers.]
Filmography
References
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Living people
New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study alumni
Singaporean women's rights activists
21st-century Singaporean actresses
Singaporean film actresses
Singaporean female models
Singaporean people of Chinese descent
1992 births