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Ming-Na ("enlightenment") was born on the island of Macau, forty miles from Hong Kong. Her mother, Lin Chan Wen, divorced her father when Ming-Na was only a toddler. She has an older brother named Jonathan. After the divorce, they moved to Hong Kong where her mother became a nurse. There her mother met Soo Lim Yee, a U.S. businessman. They soon married, and at four years, Ming-Na moved with her family to Queens, New York. Five years later, they transferred to Yee's hometown of Pittsburgh where his family runs the Chinatown Inn restaurant. Jonathan and half-brother, Leong, now manage this restaurant. Struggling to fit in at school, she changed her name to Maggie & Doris. She found a love for acting while appearing in a third grade Easter play, where she played a klutzy bunny. Her mother was not excited about her desire to pursue acting, She preferred that she go into medicine. Nonetheless, Ming-Na graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a degree in theatre. She got her first acting job in 1988 on the soap As the World Turns (1956). Her big break came when she was cast in The Joy Luck Club (1993). When she needed a ride to the premiere of the film, her acting instructor sent one of his students, Eric Michael Zee. The two started dating in 1994 after Ming-Na moved permanently to Los Angeles and married in 1995, dropping her last name, Wen, at that time. She says she is now like Ann-Margret. Zee is a screenwriter and, with Ming-Na, manages At Last, a boy band.- Isabella Leong was born on 23 June 1988 in Portuguese Macau. She is an actress, known for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), Isabella (2006) and Bug Me Not! (2005).
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Soi Cheang was born on 5 January 1972 in Portuguese Macau [now China]. He is an actor and director, known for Dog Bite Dog (2006), New Blood (2002) and Mad Fate (2023).- Producer
- Writer
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Tony Ayres quickly gained attention upon graduating from film school with a succession of internationally awarded television drama scripts. He was equally successful as a writer/director of documentary, again winning major international awards for his work. His feature debut, Walking on Water, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2002, and went on to collect a swag of awards including the prestigious Teddy Award for Best Gay/Lesbian Film at Berlin and five accolades at the AFI Awards, Australia's equivalent of the Independent Spirit Awards.
Ayres' next feature as writer/director, The Home Song Stories, starring Joan Chen (The Last Emperor, Heaven & Earth) has earned Tony the following awards: the AFI Award for Best Direction and Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted), the FCCA Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay, the Golden Horse Film Festival Award for Best Original Screenplay, Best Feature Film at the Hawaii International Film Festival, and the IF Award for Best Director.
Ayres is currently working as producer on the ABC TV series Bogan Pride.- Alex Fong was born on 17 March 1963 in Portuguese Macau. He is an actor, known for Jing tian dong di (1999), One Nite in Mongkok (2004) and Your Place or Mine (1998). He has been married to Ho-Yan Mok since 7 June 2008. They have one child.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Yat-Fei Wong was born on 19 August 1946 in Portuguese Macau. He is an actor, known for Shaolin Soccer (2001), Lee Rock (1991) and Woody Sambo (2008).- Music Department
- Actress
- Sound Department
Born in the former Portuguese colony of Macau to an expatriate Austrian civil engineer father and Chinese mother from Hong Kong, Jenny Tseng was a child of a divorced marriage who was put under parental custody of her estranged father with her Chinese stepmother and step-siblings. Feeling alienated with her newfound situation, she finally left Macau to rejoin her birth-mother back in Hong Kong. Facing difficulties being raised Eurasian and to a single parent in egalitarian conservative Hong Kong, Jenny attributed her perseverance and street smarts to an extended familial support system and the many guardian angels in the business along the way. Known then to the public simply as 'Jenny', Tseng first established herself in Taiwan as a Mando-pop recording artist before launching into fame back in Hong Kong eventually as crossover Canto-pop royalty that allowed her to extend her versatility and international star appeal as a TV/film celebrity. Life's difficulties continued to follow her as she braved through new challenges including a media onslaught by the tabloids that fanned the flames of public criticism as a result of her much publicized fairy-tale courtship and marriage under the spotlight to late Shaw Brothers Kung Fu film idol Alexander Fu Sheng. With a magnitude of sensationalism not unlike that of Bruce Lee's demise 7 years prior, Tseng bore the brunt of harsh public scrutiny being portrayed as a controlling and pressuring wife that precipitated his exploits and untimely death behind the dash of his Porsche 911 even though she was neither present at the scene nor responsible. Yet the media spin was that it was her behavior as his wife that indirectly pressured her superstar husband leading to his reckless and fateful night 'out with the lads'. After this tragedy, the young widow Jenny was once again challenged to pick herself up by her bootstraps, move on and persevere through the next chapter of life's ongoing sojourn, private and public...- Writer
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Edward Tang was born in 1946 in Macau, China. He is a writer and producer, known for Rumble in the Bronx (1995), Mr. Nice Guy (1997) and Police Story (1985).- Actor
- Writer
Wong Kun-Hang, known by his stage name Hendery, is a Macanese singer born in Macau on September 28, 1999. He is a sub-vocalist and lead-rapper in WayV. He has three older sisters and was introduced as a member of SM rookies in 2018. He has written songs for WayV and can speak Mandarin, Cantonese, English, and Korean.- Aka Chio was born on 15 February 1987 in Portuguese Macau. She is an actress, known for Undercover vs. Undercover (2019), Twilight Online (2014) and A Secret Between Us (2013).
- Joe Junior was born on 22 July 1947 in Portuguese Macau. He is an actor, known for Honour of the Gods (2001), C'est la vie, mon chéri (1993) and A Taste of Killing and Romance (1994).
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- Art Director
- Art Department
Alberto De Mello was born on 25 February 1933 in Macau, Portugal. He was an art director, known for He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword (1985), He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) and Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1971). He died on 12 November 2007 in Winnetka, California, USA.- Gaile Lai was born on 22 August 1980 in Macau, China. She is an actress, known for Husband Killers (2017), Lian xing shi dai (2000) and My Sweetie (2004). She was previously married to Leon Lai.
- Vivian Chan was born on 3 April 1989 in Portuguese Macau. She is an actress, known for The Fatal Raid (2019), Guia In Love (2015) and 29 + 1 (2017).
- Kitty Ting Hao was born on 9 October 1939 in Macau, China. She was an actress, known for You xi ren jian (1961), Xi xiang feng (1960) and Qing shan cui gu (1956). She died on 23 May 1967 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Siu-Bing Leung was born on 29 December 1969 in Macau, China. She is an actress, known for Luk ding gei (1998), Unbeatable (2013) and The Stool Pigeon (2010).
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Bo-Chuen Lam was born on 10 October 1951 in Portuguese Macau, China. He is known for Point of No Return (1990), Huo wu li ren (1989) and Liu mang ying xiong (1986). He died on 2 January 2015 in Hong Kong.- Actor
- Art Director
- Music Department
Rui Pregal da Cunha was born on 21 February 1963 in Macau, China. He is an actor and art director, known for Três Chaves, 88 (2002) and Claxon (1991). He is married to Patrícia. They have one child.- Nouzinho do Xaxado was born on 4 November 1887 in Macau, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. He was an actor, known for O Cangaceiro Sanguinário (1969). He died on 20 March 1962 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Paul Ho was born in 1967 in Portuguese Macau. He is an actor, known for Down with Love (2010) and Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast (2013).
- Raquel Dias was born in 1973 in Macau, China. She is an actress, known for A Febre do Ouro Negro (2001), ...Quando Troveja (1999) and Mysteries of Lisbon (2011).
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- Producer
- Director
Steven Lo was born on 8 June 1959 in Portuguese Macau. He is a producer and director, known for The Tragic Fantasy: Tiger of Wanchai (1994), Oi ching bak min bau (2001) and All's Well, Ends Well (1992). He has been married to Canny Leung since 13 February 2002. They have one child.- Sean Pang was born on 12 October 1985 in Portuguese Macau. He is an actor, known for Return of the Cuckoo (2015).
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Fai-Young Chan was born on 25 September 1968 in Portuguese Macau. Fai-Young is a composer, known for Office (2015), Sang yat fai lok (2007) and Twelve Nights (2000).- Leo Vong was born on 24 May 1997 in Macau, China. He is an actor, known for Typo (2021), Three Dots and a Dash and Boxes (2019).