Tiffany Lam or Tiffany Lam Man Lei (, born 25 October 1980) is a former beauty queen from

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

. She held the title of

Miss Hong Kong The Miss Hong Kong Pageant (), or Miss HK () for short, is an annual beauty pageant organised by local Hong Kong television station, TVB. The pageant was established in 1946, and acquired by TVB in 1973. The current Miss Hong Kong is Denice Lam ...

2002 and

Miss Chinese International Miss Chinese International Pageant (, formerly 國際華裔小姐競選), or MCI () for short, is an annual international beauty pageant, organized and broadcast by TVB, a network television station in Hong Kong. It was established in 1988 and th ...

2003 runner up.

Early life

Lam was born in

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 ...

in 1980. During her childhood, she immigrated to

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

, where she studied for many years. Lam later attended the

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

. She is a member of

Sigma Omicron Pi Sigma Omicron Pi () is an Asian American interest sorority. Founded in 1930 at San Francisco State University, the college social organization has active chapters on twelve campuses in the United States. The stated objective of the sorority is to ...

sorority, Delta Chapter. She then returned to Hong Kong to compete in the Miss Hong Kong 2002 pageant. Her younger cousin, Sandy Lau, won the 2009 Miss Hong Kong.

Miss Hong Kong 2002

She was chosen out of many delegates from USA and

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to go back to Hong Kong to compete. She made the top 12 of the Miss Hong Kong 2002 pageant in early July. Three weeks later, she competed and won the Miss Hong Kong pageant final on its 30th anniversary, also winning two side awards, "Miss International Goodwill" and "Miss Modern Style".

Miss Chinese International 2003

After winning the Miss Hong Kong title, Lam became an ambassador for Hong Kong, representing Hong Kong at the

Miss Chinese International Pageant 2003 The 15th anniversary of the pageant, Miss Chinese International Pageant 2003 was held on January 25, 2003 in Hong Kong. TVB of Hong Kong broadcast and distributed the pageant worldwide. In the end, Miss Chinese International 2002 Shirley Zhou of ...

in January 2003, where she finished second behind Rachel Tan of Kuala Lumpur.

Post-pageant

Lam subsequently starred in two

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dramas, ''

Net Deception ''Net Deception'' (Traditional Chinese: 追魂交易) is a Hong Kong television crime drama serial released overseas in January 2004 and broadcast on Hong Kong's Jade network from 17 May to 9 June 2006. Synopsis :The winner of the game almost lo ...

'' and '' Not Just A Pretty Face''. Her 1st runner up and friend, Victoria Jolly, also appeared in ''Not Just A Pretty Face''. After she crowned her successor, Mandy Cho Man Li, Lam returned to San Francisco to continue her studies. She returned to Hong Kong to crown the 1st runner up of the

Miss Chinese International Pageant 2004 Miss Chinese International Pageant 2004, the 16th Miss Chinese International Pageant, was held on January 17, 2004 in Hong Kong. The pageant was organized and televised by TVB in Hong Kong. At the end of the pageant, Miss Chinese International 2 ...

. As of 2007, Lam works for her family restaurant business in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Awards

* Miss Hong Kong 2002: Winner, Miss International Goodwill, and Miss Modern Style. * Miss Chinese International 2003: 1st runner up.

TVB Dramas

* ''

'' (2002) * '' Not Just A Pretty Face'' (2003)

References

External links

Miss Hong Kong 2002 site
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