Anita Mui

Anita Mui Yim-fong (梅艷芳; pinyin: Méi Yànfāng; Cantonese Yale: muìh yihm fòng) (October 10, 1963–December 30, 2003) was a popular Hong Kong pop singer and actress.

Acting career

Anita Mui is also well-known as an actress across the Asia region. Her films have mainly been of the action thriller and kung fu variety, but she has also taken comedic roles. In 1995, she found some international recognition by starring opposite Jackie Chan in Rumble in the Bronx, the film that was largely responsible for Jackie Chan himself breaking into the American market.

Related Topics:
Jackie Chan - Rumble in the Bronx

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Apart from singing, Mui won her first acting award as a supporting actress in the movie "Fate" in 1984. In 1987, her movie "Rouge" presented her with the Golden Horse Best Actress award. Later on in 1997, she also won another best supporting actress award with the movie "Eighteen Springs".

Related Topics:
1984 - 1987 - Golden Horse Best Actress award - 1997

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Anita was originally cast for Zhang Yimou's 2004 movie House of Flying Daggers. She resigned from her position in the movie only two weeks before her death. Zhang had held her parts of filming to the last due to her poor health condition. The filming was already 80% done when she died. Zhang didn't replace Anita's role with another actress. The screenplay was changed to take the storyline off the original character. The new leader of the "House of Flying Daggers" never appears in the movie because it was Anita's role.

Related Topics:
Zhang Yimou - 2004 - House of Flying Daggers

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Filmography

• Mad Mad 83 瘋狂83 (1983)
• Let's Make Laugh 表錯七日情 (1983)
• Fate 緣份 (1984)
• The Musical Singer 歌舞昇平 (1985)
• Lucky Diamond 祝你好運 (1985)
• Young Cops 青春差館 (1985)
• Happy Din Don 歡樂叮噹 (1985)#
• Chocolate Inspector 神探朱古力 (1986)
• Why, Why, Tell Me Why? 壞女孩 (1986)
• Last Song in Paris 偶然 (1986)
• 100 Ways To Murder Your Wife 殺妻二人組 (1986)
• Scared Stiff 小生夢驚魂 (1987)#
• Troubling Couples 開心物語 (1987)
• Happy Bigamist 一屋兩妻 (1987)
• Rouge 胭脂扣 (1988)
• One Husband too Many 一妻兩夫 (1988)#
• The Greatest Lover 公子多情 (1988)
• Three Wishes 黑心鬼 (1988)
• Miracles 奇蹟 (1989)
• A Better Tomorrow 3 英雄本色3-夕陽之歌 (1989)
• Kawashima Yoshiko 川島芳子 (1990)
• Shanghai Shanghai 亂世兒女 (1990)
• The Fortune Code 富貴兵團 (1990)
• The Top Bet 賭霸 (1991)
• Till We Meet Again 何日君再來 (1991)
• The Banquet 豪門夜宴 (1991)#
• Saviour Of The Soul 91神鵰俠侶 (1991)
• Justice, My Foot 審死官 (1992)
• Moon Warriors 戰神傳說 (1992)
• Fight Back to School 3 逃學威龍3之龍過雞年 (1993)*
• Executioners 現代豪俠傳 (1993)
• The Heroic Trio 東方三俠 (1993)
• Mad Monk 濟公 (1993)
• The Magic Crane 新仙鶴神針 (1993)
• Drunken Master 2 醉拳2 (1994)
• Rumble in the Bronx 紅番區 (1995)
• My Father is a Hero 給爸爸的信 (1995)
• Who's the Woman, Who's the Man 金枝玉葉-2 (1996)*
• Twinkle Twinkle 運財智叻星 (1996)#
• Eighteen Springs 半生緣 (1997)
• Dance of a Dream 愛君如夢 (2001)
• Wu Yen 鍾無艷 (2001)
• Midnight Fly 慌心假期 (2001)
• Let's Sing Along 男歌女唱 (2001)
• July Rhapsody 男人四十 (2002)

# Anita Mui wasn't the leading or supporting actress in the film

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* She was the supporting actress in the film

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Sources: http://geocities.com/Hollywood/Makeup/3094/movie.html, http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/person.anita+mui/qx/titles.htm

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