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Chingmy Yau
Chingmy Yau
Chinese: 邱淑貞
	Chingmy Yau in 2018
Born	16 May 1968 (age 56); British Hong Kong
Other names	Yau Shuk-ching, Chingamy Yau, Chingmy Yau Suk-ching, Yau Shu-tsing
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1986–1999
Spouse	Sham Kar Wai (m. 1999)
Children	3
Relatives	Sham Yuet (daughter); Sham Yat (daughter); Sham Sen (daughter);
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	邱淑貞
Simplified Chinese	邱淑贞
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Qiū Shūzhēn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	Jau1 Suk1-zing1

Chingmy Yau Suk-zing (born 16 May 1968) is a retired Hong Kong actress.

Background

She entered the Hong Kong film industry after completing secondary school in the 1987 Miss Hong Kong Beauty Pageant.

She was one of the leading actresses in the late 1980s and early 1990s, next to Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin and Cheung Man. She was cast in a series of Category III films, the most notable being Naked Killer (1992).^[1]^[2] During the height of her success, she regularly starred alongside superstars like Jet Li, Andy Lau, Stephen Chow, Ekin Cheng, and Jackie Chan.

Yau received four Hong Kong Film Award nominations for her acting: for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 for Lee Rock, and for Best Actress in 1993 for Naked Killer, in 1996 for I'm Your Birthday Cake, and in 1999 for Hold You Tight.^[3]

In 1999, she married Hong Kong fashion designer Sham Kar Wai, founder of Hong Kong–based fashion company I.T. They have three daughters together.

– Sources:,^[4]^[5]

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
1992	Hong Kong Film Awards	Best Actress	Naked Killer	Nominated
1992		Best Supporting Actress	Lee Rock	Nominated
1996		Best Actress	I'm Your Birthday Cake	Nominated
1999		Best Actress	Hold You Tight	Nominated
1999	Golden Bauhinia Awards	Best Actress	Hold You Tight	Nominated

^ Pete Tombs (1998). Mondo Macabro: Weird and Wonderful Cinema Around the World. St. Martin's Press. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-0-312-18748-4. Excerpts available at Google Books.
^ Linda Ruth Williams (2005). The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema. Indiana University Press. pp. 388–389. ISBN 978-0253218360. Excerpts available at Google Books.
^ Hong Kong Film Awards (accessed 2015-05-05).
^ "Chingmy Yau". imdb.com. Retrieved April 4, 2010.
^ "Chingmy Yau". chinesemov.com. Retrieved April 4, 2010.