Charlene Choi

Charlene Choi Tsoek-jin (born 22 November 1982 ) is a Hong Kong actress and singer.

She is a member of Cantopop group Twins, along with Gillian Chung.

Choi was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

She moved with her family to Hong Kong a few years later.

She was educated at Marymount Secondary School and Rosaryhill School.

She is fluent in Cantonese, English and Mandarin.

After graduating from Rosaryhill School, where many other would-be pop stars had attended, she started working full-time as a model in Hong Kong.

She was scouted by Emperor Entertainment Group (EEG), and was then linked with Gillian Chung to form the Cantopop group Twins.

Aside from her musical career, Choi has become a successful actress in the Hong Kong film industry.

She wrote an article describing her acting career:

Earlier, I shared with everyone some of my acting experiences.

This time, I want to talk about movies.

As an artist, whenever I'm working, I have to show my best side and give my best performance.

I have to show the fittest side of me and hence, I'm often in "battle mode".

When free, I like to watch slow-paced movies.

I can't stand movies with too much excitement.

I'm the type who can be easily sucked into the world of the movie.

That type of fast-paced movie will end up making me tense and nervous so comedy, romance or movies centered on issues of humanity all suit me better."

Choi's first acting gig was a starring role in the 2000 television drama Youth Y2K.

Choi made her first film debut in 2001 in Funeral March (filmed prior to Twins' debut), which drew rave reviews from critics and earned her a Best New Performer nomination at the 21st Hong Kong Film Awards.

Choi's next big acting break was in 2003 with her earnest and pretence-free portrayal of a young girl who battles through all odds in hopes of becoming a singer in Diva – Ah Hey.

Her breakthrough role in the Pang brothers' psychological thriller Diary (2006) earned her many film award nominations and she received the Best Actress award at the 11th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan Korean Movie Award).

Choi's acting was identified by film critics with her portrayal of Dani Dan in Simply Actors.

Choi has taken Jim Chim as a mentor, and portrayed a kind and comedic porn star in the comedy film Simply Actors (2007).

She won the Best Actress and Favourite Actress awards at the 2007 Golden Bauhinia Awards for her performance.

Choi also played the leading role alongside the Taiwanese singer Jay Chou in the 2008 comedy-action film Kung Fu Dunk.

Choi co-starred with Wu Chun and Hu Ge in The Butterfly Lovers, based on the Chinese legend of the same name, which was released on 9 October 2008.

Throughout the filming, rumors of an off-set romance between Choi and Wu Chun developed.

Though they have denied such rumors, Wu stated that the pair reached an agreement with director Jingle Ma to collaborate once again in the future.

In December 2008, she began filming her first Taiwanese television drama, Calling For Love, produced by Angie Chai, co-starring with Mike He.

In December 2009 after over a year of post-production, positive response at the Shanghai International Film Festival, The Storm Warriors was released with Choi taking on the main female lead role as Second Dream and starring alongside Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, Simon Yam and Nicholas Tse.

Though it was only released on 10 December, The Storm Warriors ranked fifth in the Hong Kong Chinese-language box office of the year.

The series was first aired in May 2010.

In 2010, after having concentrated heavily on music in the previous year, Choi started taking on more acting projects.

Her first film for that year was Beauty on Duty, which she co-starred with Sandra Ng.

Following that, Choi appeared in Triple Tap with Daniel Wu and Louis Koo.

Choi's next film, The Jade and the Pearl, saw her co-starring with Raymond Lam and her close friends Joey Yung and Wong Cho-lam, as well as a collaboration between Choi and Lam in singing a duet theme song.

Choi concluded work on God of Fortune's Inn with Nicholas Tse and Nick Cheung.

She again co-starred with Nicholas Tse in Mainland Chinese television series Sword Heroes' Fate, which was aired in 2011.

Starring as Chan in Detective vs Sleuths, the latest film from director Wai Ka Fai, co-founder of Milkyway Image.