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Flora Chan Wai-shan was born on 30 May 1970 in Hong Kong. She is an American actress active primarily in Hong Kong television and film. Along with Maggie Cheung Ho-yee, Kenix Kwok, Jessica Hsuan, and Ada Choi, she is known as one of the Top 5 "Fa Dans" (term used for actresses with high popularity) of TVB from the mid-1990s to mid-2000s.
Biography
Chan was born in Hong Kong and emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts at a young age. As a child, she had hoped to become a dancer, but because of an injury when she was a teenager, she was forced to abandon her dreams as a professional dancer. She attended Boston College and earned a degree in communications before returning to Hong Kong in the early 1990s with her then-husband, Chung Wai Ming. She and her first husband divorced in 2000. Chan married her manager Mike Chung Ka-hung (鐘家鴻). The couple has one child.
Rather than getting her start from modeling or a beauty pageant, the Miss Hong Kong Pageant, (香港小姐競選) which provides actresses for HK's television station, TVB, Chan was a reporter for the TVB English Channel - TVB Pearl. In the mid-1990s, television director Teng Dak-Hei asked her to participate in his upcoming series, the fifth installment to the popular TVB drama series, File of Justice.
Chan's performance in this series about young, yuppie lawyers caught the attention of the HK audience—and TVB. She signed on as a TVB actress and has since made other series, most notably Untraceable Evidence, playing the calm and collected forensics doctor, "Pauline Lip"; and in Healing Hands, a TVB series known for its cutting edge medical topics. In 2002, Chan won the coveted "Most Favorite TV Actress" award presented annually by TVB. Having already starred in various TVB dramas, she is no longer signed on with TVB as a full-time actress. In November 2006, Chan announced she would be returning to film a TVB serial in February 2007.
Filmography
TV series
| Year | Title | Role | Awards | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | File of Justice V | Ou Zi Keung (Catherine) | ||
| Untraceable Evidence | Nip Bo Yin (Pauline) | |||
| 1998 | Healing Hands | Kong Sun Yuet (Annie) | ||
| 1999 | Untraceable Evidence II | Nip Bo Yin (Pauline) | ||
| Feminine Masculinity | Fong Si Ching (Christine) | TVB Award for My Favourite On-Screen Partners | a.k.a. Mr. Diana | |
| Sidebeat | Kong Bik Ching | |||
| At the Threshold of an Era | Fok Hei Yin (Helen) | |||
| 2000 | At the Threshold of an Era II | Fok Hei Yin (Helen) | ||
| Healing Hands II | Kong Sun Yuet (Annie) | |||
| 2001 | A Taste of Love | Kiu Fa Chi (Joyce) | ||
| 2002 | A Case of Misadventure | Dai Fun | ||
| Burning Flame II | Ho Bo Lam (Michelle) | |||
| Family Man | Ko Pui Yi (Tracy) | TVB Award for My Favourite Actress in a Leading Role TVB Award for My Favourite Television Character | ||
| 2003 | Triumph in the Skies | Lok Yi San (Isabelle) | TVB Award for My Favourite Television Character | |
| 2004 | Hard Fate | Mok Hei Yee (Tiffany) | ||
| To Get Unstuck In Time | Go San (Nicole) | |||
| Like My Own | Mabel Lim | |||
| 2005 | The Great Adventure | To Lei Kuen | a.k.a. Great Adventurer | |
| Wong Fei-Hung | 13th Aunt | a.k.a. Huang Fei Hong And Shi San Yi | ||
| Touching Venus | Wang Xiaojuan | a.k.a. Love Story of Venus a.k.a. Wei Na Si Zhi Lian | ||
| 2007 | Lang Yan | Han Ye | ||
| 2010 | Suspects in Love | Cheng Siu-Yan | ||
| Du Lala's Promotion | ||||
| 2014 | Never Dance Alone | Diana Yung Daan Daan |
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Fatal Maple | Ellen | |
| 2001 | Love Au Zen | Siu Jing | |
| 2002 | Dry Wood Fierce Fire | Michelle | |
| 2006 | Undying Heart | a.k.a. Min Mie | |
| 2007 | Mad Detective | May Cheung (in Bun's eyes) | |
| 2008 | Connected | Jeannie |
Discography
- Flora Chan (2000)
- 自在 (2001)
- 愛得起 (2002)