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Statistics : 11630 Movies 19215 People 1448 Studios 29 Articles 73 Interviews 12 DVD Reviews 32452 Screenshots 3722 Videos
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高丽虹 Joyce Godenzi Joyce Mina Kao Lee Hung Kao Li Hung Ko Lai Hung
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Australia, Malaysia |
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Hong Kong |
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Actress (11), Cameo (1) |
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Joyce grew up in HK, the child of a mixed marriage – an Australian father and a Chinese mother and like many actresses before her Joyce was discovered by winning the Miss Hong Kong beauty contest in 1986.
She was offered a few film roles after that, but her major break came when Sammo Hung offered her a job in his film Eastern Condors in which her smallish role of a Cambodian guerilla is simply astonishing in its intensity. Deadly China Dolls reports her saying of Sammo “Sammo is the least sexist film-maker in the world. He treats women just like men.” The fact that before going into acting she had no martial arts training is hard to believe after seeing her in a few films.
Some of the action that she is clearly performing in this film is simply astounding. But surprisingly, she only made some dozen films over her career – and one has to wonder whether prejudices about her mixed parentage had something to do with this (something which her She Shoots Straight character encounters). She did of course marry Sammo – so it isn’t a tragic tale by any means! Other than a cameo in Mr. Nice Guy, her last role was in the 1991 Slickers vs. Killers.
She now spends her time helping Sammo with his career. |
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