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		Anita Yuen Wing Yee

Other names :	袁咏仪袁詠儀 Yuan Yong Yi Anita Yuen Yuen Wing Yee

Birthdate :	4/9/1971
Nationality :	Hong Kong
Workplace :	Hong Kong
Activities :	Voice dubbing (1), Actress (58), Cameo (2)

	Biography
Before getting into film, she hosted shows for TVB but in 1992 she made her film debut in the wonderfully silly comedy, Days of Being Dumb (for which she won the HKFA Best Newcomer award). After some not very memorable appearances in very diversified films, C'est la vie mon chéri (1993) is her first success. In this melodrama, she played the role of a young musician victim of a cancer who would give again the taste of living to Lau Ching-wan . The couple could seem atypical, but it works. The young woman imposes a character all in frankness, able to pass from the laughter to the tears in one moment. For her nothing seems impossible and she affirms her faith in the existence with a strength such as her optimism becomes communicative. Merry and mischievous, she has often a childish behavior. Thus in He's a Woman, she's a man (1994) she makes puppets speak to put in scene the problems which worry her. It must be said that in certain films, too much puerility is very unbearable. But the character also preserves the capacity much more appreciable to show amazement and enthusiasm of childhood. In He's a Woman, she's a man, for example, Anita, disguised as a boy to approach Rose her preferred singer , has during a good part of film flabbergasted eyes in front of the world of the pop stars. Her curiosity, her spirit would attract Leslie Cheung, the producer and lover of Rose, very disturbed by this "boy" who brings him news in a finally monotonous existence. And it is there that the dramatic actress of comedy must use all her talent to express this joy of living and this capacity of amazement. On the screen, Anita is thus basically smart and noisy. Obviously the showing off is never very far and becomes even in Chinese Feast (1995) the stake of a caricatural higher bid. Thus the scene where her character tries to cover with her voice the taking off of the planes symbolizes the spectacular side, even invading of the character. In this context, the men appear more passive. For Lau Ching-wan or Leslie Cheung in above mentioned films, they do not have to force their talent since their partner plays for two! This merry nature is the single tool of the seduction of this idealized girl. Whereas Wu Xia Pian swim in sensuality, being filled with fatal women, the dramatic comedy carefully avoids tackling sex. Admittedly, Anita made love with Lau Ching-wan in C'est la vie mon cheri, but the seduction is not in any case sexual. The girls played by Anita and the others appear like reassuring beings for the man who doubts. Neither prostitute, nor mother, they live platonic loves. However, one doesn't believe that these girls do not have any concern in the existence. All have their problem, whose stake will provide the frame of the intrigue. Thus, victim of a cancer in C'est la vie mon cheri, Anita must fight against the disease. In Tri-star (1996), she played the role of a prostitute, (without customer so), without money. This girl hides behind her good mood a vulnerable side, which makes her more pleasant, her partner devoting itself to help her. Several actresses, following the example of Anita Yuen, played this kind of girls. Let us quote Charlie Young in The Lovers (1994) or Love In The Time Of Twilight (1995), Faye Wong in Chungking Express or Hsu Chi in When I Look Upon The Star (1998). True stereotype of the modern Chinese woman, some directors ended up wondering themselves about this model offered by the cinema to the spectators. Tsui Hark denounces the Western side of the model in Chinese Feast . Even if he appreciates the emancipation, the director, disfiguring Anita under make-up and colors of extravagant hair, shows that by borrowing the way of life of the Westerners this young woman looks like nothing any more since she is quartered between two cultures which she doesn't assimilate. More radical, Daniel Lee confronts this character of fairy tale with the hard reality of the divorce in Till Death Do Us Parts (1998). This time the character of Anita can only sink in the pit, her dreams of eternal love being impossible. Therefore even if this character is pleasant, it is only one character of cinema which is not in any case ready to face the real world. She has dated actor Julian Cheung for a number of years. (Th)
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Filmography

[ 2010 - 2000 - 1990 ]

Alternate lists by alpha / genre / year

Title ( HK - All )		Year	Activity

	Deathday Party, The	2014	Actress
	Ip Man Final Fight	2013	Actress
	Love Experience	2013	Actress
	72 Tenants Of Prosperity	2010	Actress
	Protégé	2007	Actress
	Love Trilogy	2004	Actress
	36th Chamber Of Southern Shaolin	2003	Actress
	Karate Girls	2003	Actress
	New Adventures Of Chor Lau Heung, The	2001	Actress
	Don't Look Back... Or You'll Be Sorry	2000	Actress
	Dragon Heat	2000	Actress
	Anna Magdalena	1998	Cameo
	Enter The Eagles	1998	Actress
	Hong Kong Night Club	1998	Actress
	Till Death Do Us Part	1998	Actress
	Chinese Ghost Story : The Animated Movie, A	1997	Voice dubbing
	He Comes From Planet K	1997	Actress
	Up For The Rising Sun	1997	Actress
	Wedding Days, The	1997	Actress
	Age Of Miracles, The	1996	Actress
	God Of Gamblers 3 : The Early Stage	1996	Actress
	Hu Du Men	1996	Actress
	Till Death Do Us Laugh	1996	Actress
	Tristar	1996	Actress
	Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star	1996	Actress
	Who's The Woman, Who's The Man	1996	Actress
	01:00 A.M.	1995	Actress
	Chinese Feast, The	1995	Actress
	Golden Girls, The	1995	Actress
	Heaven Can't Wait	1995	Cameo
	I Want To Go On Living	1995	Actress
	Just Married	1995	Actress
	Thunderbolt	1995	Actress
	Tragic Commitment	1995	Actress
	Tricky Business	1995	Actress
	Crossings	1994	Actress
	Crystal Fortune Run	1994	Actress
	From Beijing With Love	1994	Actress
	He And She	1994	Actress
	He's A Woman, She's A Man	1994	Actress
	I Will Wait For You	1994	Actress
	I’ve Got You Babe !	1994	Actress
	It’s A Wonderful Life !	1994	Actress
	Taste Of Killing And Romance, A	1994	Actress
	Tears And Triumph	1994	Actress
	True Hero, The	1994	Actress
	Whatever You Want	1994	Actress
	Wrath Of Silence, The	1994	Actress
	C'est La Vie, Mon Cheri	1993	Actress
	He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father	1993	Actress
	Incorruptible, The	1993	Actress
	Last Hero In China	1993	Actress
	Legend Of The Liquid Sword	1993	Actress
	Prince Of The Portland Street, The	1993	Actress
	Sword Stained With Royal Blood, The	1993	Actress
	Tom, Dick And Hairy	1993	Actress
	Two Of A Kind	1993	Actress
	Warrior's Tragedy, A	1993	Actress
	Days Of Being Dumb, The	1992	Actress
	Handsome Siblings	1992	Actress
	Talk To Me Dicky	1992	Actress