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Profiles tagged “Macau-born”.
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Stephen Shin: the Macau-born director of The Great Conqueror's Concubine
Stephen Shin
A Macau-born Hong Kong film director and producer. He directed films such as The Black Cat and the epic The Great Conqueror's Concubine (with Gong Li), and produced Jackie Chan's Hollywood breakthrough Rumble in the Bronx — an important behind-the-scenes figure of 1980s–90s Hong Kong cinema.
Jenny Tseng: the Macau-born diva who defined a Cantopop era
Jenny Tseng
A Macau-born Mandarin and Cantonese pop singer who reigned over the Hong Kong and Taiwan charts in the 1970s and 80s. A six-time winner at Hong Kong's Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards, she remains best known for television theme songs and Cantopop standards still sung today.
Maria Cordero: the Macau-born "Fat Mama" whose voice ran through generations of Hong Kong
Maria Cordero
A Macanese singer, actress and cooking-show host born in Macau, affectionately known as "Fat Mama" (肥媽). Her powerful, soaring voice made her a Hong Kong Cantopop star in the 1980s — earning the nickname "Hong Kong's big lungs" — and she appeared in many films before becoming a beloved cross-generational cooking-show host from the 2000s.
Louie Castro: the Macau-born Macanese hailed as one of Hong Kong TV's first teen idols
Louie Castro
A Macau-born Macanese singer, actor and radio host of Portuguese-Chinese descent. He emerged in 1974 via TVB's talent show Sharp Night and became one of the first teen idols of 1970s Hong Kong TV culture, later working in film, on the variety show Enjoy Yourself Tonight, and as a radio DJ.
Lam Bun-Ching: the Macau-born composer who won the Prix de Rome
Lam Bun-Ching
A Macau-born composer, pianist and conductor based in the United States, among the leading figures of contemporary Chinese-American art music. She won the Prix de Rome in 1991 and held a Guggenheim Fellowship; her work appears on the Grammy-winning Hilary Hahn album In 27 Pieces, and she was the Macao Orchestra's Composer-in-Residence from 2008 to 2016.
Clara Law: the Macau-born auteur who took her films to the world
Clara Law
A Macau-born film director and screenwriter, a leading figure of the Hong Kong New Wave's second generation who later settled in Australia. Her Autumn Moon won the Golden Leopard at Locarno in 1992, Floating Life was Australia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and she won Best Director at the 2021 Golden Horse Awards for Drifting Petals — among the most internationally recognised filmmakers from Macau.
Vincent Wan: from a Macau metalware apprentice to a hard-man fixture of Hong Kong screens
Vincent Wan
A Macau-born Hong Kong actor (original name 尹志成). Discovered by director Ringo Lam in the late 1980s, he played tough, hard-edged roles across many Hong Kong films and series, with credits including the Young and Dangerous films (as Ben Hon), Ebola Syndrome, and Infernal Affairs III.
Alex Fong: from Macau to a rugged Hong Kong screen career
Alex Fong
A Macau-born Hong Kong actor (original name 符力, ancestral home in Hainan). After joining TVB in 1992 he moved into film, playing tough, hard-edged roles across many Hong Kong productions and establishing himself as a dependable character actor.
Noel Leung: from Macau to TVB's "Queen of Costume Drama"
Noel Leung
A Macau-born Hong Kong actress, second runner-up at the 1990 Miss Hong Kong pageant and a TVB artist from that year. Prolific in 1990s costume dramas, she became known as the "Queen of Costume Drama", with credits including The Duke of Mount Deer and Fate of the Last Empire.
Michelle Reis: the Macau-born Miss Hong Kong who became a screen icon
Michelle Reis
A Macau-born Macanese actress who in 1988 won both the Miss Hong Kong title and the inaugural Miss Chinese International crown. Celebrated as one of the most beautiful pageant winners, she went on to a prominent film career in 1990s Hong Kong cinema.
Julio Acconci: lead voice of the rock duo Soler and a Macau-born artist who moves between music, acting and painting
Julio Acconci
A Macau-born singer, actor and painter who, with his twin brother Dino Acconci, formed the rock duo Soler (known in Taiwan as 太陽系). The pair debuted in Hong Kong in 2005 and won a Best New Group gold award. Son of an Italian architect based in Macau and a Karen (Myanmar) mother, he also acts and holds solo painting exhibitions, and has been called "Macao's Renaissance man".
Dino Acconci: guitarist of the rock duo Soler and a Macau-born musician with a global reach
Dino Acconci
A Macau-born singer and guitarist who, with his twin brother Julio Acconci, formed the rock duo Soler (known in Taiwan as 太陽系). The pair debuted in Hong Kong in 2005 and won a Best New Group gold award. Son of an Italian architect based in Macau and a Karen (Myanmar) mother, he is multilingual and in recent years has been based in Canada, continuing to perform internationally.
Terence Siufay: from a Macau group to a Hong Kong singer-songwriter
Terence Siufay
A Macau-born Hong Kong singer and actor, born 徐智勇 and known by the stage name "Siufay". He started in a Macau group, C-PLUS, before moving to Hong Kong in 2007, signing with Gold Label and winning a JSG newcomer award, with songs including "A Song" (一首歌).
Gaile Lok: the Macau-born model who became a Hong Kong fashion fixture
Gaile Lok
A Macau-born Hong Kong model and actress (birth name 黎嘉儀), of mixed Chinese-Vietnamese descent. She became a prominent figure in 2000s Hong Kong fashion and appeared in films, with a high public profile.
Chita: the Macau-born singer-songwriter and lyricist
Chita
A Macau-born singer-songwriter and lyricist known as CHITA. She wrote lyrics for acts such as Twins (including "十八變"), won the Ultimate Song Chart Best New Female Singer gold in 2009, and has appeared at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala — a woman songwriter who went from Macau into the Hong Kong music industry.
Lio Kuokman: the Macau-born conductor on the international stage
Lio Kuokman
A Macau-born conductor and pianist, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Macao Orchestra and a former Resident Conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. A prizewinner at the 2014 Svetlanov International Conducting Competition in Russia, he was the first Chinese conductor to serve as an assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and is active on the international stage.
Hyper Lo: the singer-songwriter and host rooted in Macau
Hyper Lo
A Macau-born and -raised singer-songwriter and host, a member of the group MFM. He started in Macau's inter-school and songwriting contests, broke into the Hong Kong market with the 2013 single "蠢人", and has performed at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. As a genuinely Macau-based local artist, he is one of the representative figures of Macau pop music.
Aka Chio: the Super Girls leader who started out from Macau
Aka Chio
A Macau-born Hong Kong singer and actress, a member and leader of the girl group Super Girls (debuted 2012, disbanded 2022). She has also acted in TV dramas, presented entertainment news on Cable TV, and pursued a solo singing career in recent years.
Isabella Leong: the Macau-born Eurasian star crowned in Portugal
Isabella Leong
A Macau-born Macanese actress and singer of English-Portuguese-Chinese descent who built her career in Hong Kong. In 2007 she won Best Actress at Portugal's Fantasporto film festival for the film Isabella — a rare Hong Kong star honoured at a Portuguese-language festival.
Kuok-Wai Lio: the Macau-born concert pianist on the international stage
Kuok-Wai Lio
A Macau-born classical pianist, a graduate of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia under Gary Graffman. He received the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2013 and has collaborated with leading musicians such as András Schiff, active on the international concert stage.