Cherie Chung Chor-hung (Chinese: 鍾楚紅; Jyutping: zung1 co2 hung4; born 16 February 1960) is a retired Hong Kong film actress. Of Hakka ancestry, she was one of the top actresses in Hong Kong film during the 1980s.
Background
Chung participated in the 1979 Miss Hong Kong competition and came in 3rd runner-up. She was later discovered by film director Johnnie To and debuted in his first film The Enigmatic Case (1980).[1]
Her beauty and charm led her to become one of the top actresses in Hong Kong at the time. In her film career, one of her most famous performances was in Mabel Cheung‘s An Autumn’s Tale (1987), where she portrayed Jennifer, an educated middle-class woman who falls in love with a rude and uneducated man played by Chow Yun-fat. She is known as the “Marilyn Monroe of Hong Kong” and the Chinese entertainment industry due to her beauty.[1] Chung retired from acting in the 1990s. Her last film was John Woo‘s Once a Thief (1991).[2]
She married advertising guru Michael Chu Ka-ting in 1991. Chu died of cancer in August 2007.[3]
She is also very active in promoting environmental protection as a supporter of Friend of the Earth (HK) since the early 1990s.[4]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | The Enigmatic Case | Yao Puipui | |
| 1981 | The Story of Woo Viet | Shum Ching | |
| 1982 | The Postman Strikes Back | Guihua | |
| It Takes Two | |||
| The Dead and the Deadly | Miss Yuen | ||
| Eclipse | Nominated—Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress | ||
| 1983 | Twinkle Twinkle Little Star | ||
| Winners and Sinners | Shirley | ||
| Salt and Pepper | |||
| Hong Kong Playboys | Mei | ||
| Hong Kong, Hong Kong | Man Si Sun | Nominated—Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Horse Award for Best Actress | |
| Descendant of the Sun | Princess | ||
| 1984 | Heaven Can Help | Cathy | |
| Maybe It’s Love | |||
| Prince Charming | Yuk Duk-mei | ||
| My Darling Genie | |||
| The Hidden Power of the Dragon Sabre | |||
| Banana Cop | Amy | ||
| Cher, Last Victory | Cherie Teng | ||
| 1985 | The Flying Mr. B | ||
| Women | |||
| Fascinating Affairs | Diana | ||
| The Spring Outside the Fence | Li Lin | ||
| 1986 | Happy Ding Dong | Din-Din | |
| Peking Opera Blues | Sheung Hung | ||
| 1987 | Double Fixation | ||
| Goodbye Darling | Josephine | ||
| Spiritual Love | Wei Hsiao-Tieh | ||
| Spooky Kama Sutra | |||
| An Autumn’s Tale | Jennifer | Nominated—Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress Nominated—Golden Horse Award for Best Actress | |
| 1988 | Moon, Stars & Sun | GiGi | |
| One Husband Too Many | Frances | ||
| The Yuppie Fantasia | |||
| Fatal Love | Cecilia Yau Tai-Kam | ||
| Couples, Couples, Couples | Mary Huang | ||
| Walk on Fire | Miss Chung | ||
| Bet on Fire | Hung | ||
| Carry on Hotel | |||
| 18 Times | |||
| Golden Swallow | Hsiao-Hsueh / Lu Hsiao-Ping | ||
| The Eight Happiness | Beautiful | ||
| The Good, the Bad and the Beauty | Ko Sau-Ping | ||
| Chaos by Design | |||
| Mr. Mistress | Ho’s girlfriend | ||
| Golden Years | Chu So-So | ||
| Last Romance | |||
| 1989 | Diary of a Small Man | ||
| Wild Search | Cher | Nominated—Golden Horse Award for Best Actress | |
| Happy Together | |||
| Stars & Roses | |||
| 1991 | Zodiac Killers | Mang Tit Lan | |
| Once a Thief | Red Bean |
Television
- Floating Clouds (1981) (RTHK television series “Hong Kong, Hong Kong”, no. 1)
References
- ^ a b Lui, Mabel (2023-11-24). “Cherie Chung a screen goddess, the Marilyn Monroe of Hong Kong, fans said – how she retired from acting at the height of her career and hasn’t looked back”. South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2024-04-18.
- ^ Stokes, Lisa Odham (2007). Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0810864580. Retrieved 2020-12-03.
- ^ “Prominent businessman dies of cancer”. South China Morning Post. 28 August 2007. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
- ^ Chow, Vivienne (28 September 2014). “Portrait of an artiste”. South China Morning Post. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
External links
- Cherie Chung at IMDb
- Cherie Chung Cho Hung at hkmdb.com
- Cherie Chung Chor Hung at hkcinemagic.com
- Movie stills from An Autumn’s Tale (Japan version) Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Floating Clouds (45 minutes; RTHK television series “Hong Kong, Hong Kong”, no. 1; broadcast on 17 October 1981; RTHK official website)
- Ford, Stacilee. Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting’s An Autumn’s Tale (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008)
