CECILIA YIP (HONG KONG)

Of her impressive repertoire of 45 feature length films to date, Cecilia Yip has been nominated for ‘Best Newcomer of The Year Award’ in the 2nd Hong Kong Film Awards for her debut in Patrick Tam Ka-Ming’s Nomad.?

In the 3rd Hong Kong Film Awards, Cecilia received the ‘Best Actress Award’ for her role, in Alfred Cheung Kin-Ting’s Let’s Make Laugh. This was followed by her nomination for the ‘Best Actress Award’ in the film Hong Kong 1941, co-starring Chow Yun Fat in the 4th Hong Kong Film Awards. Cecilia was also awarded, in the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards, the ‘Best Supporting Actress Award’ in the film Beyond the Sunset. In the 11th Hong Kong Film Awards, Cecilia was awarded the ‘Best Actress Award’ for her role in This Thing Call Love and was nominated for the ‘Best Supporting Actress Award’ in To Be Number One.?She was also nominated for Best Actress Award in the 27th Golden Horse Award for her role in This Thing Call Love. The Film Peace Hotel reunited Cecilia with Chow Yun Fat onscreen for which she was nominated for the ‘Best Actress Award’ in the 15th Hong Kong Film Awards.

In addition to her films, Cecilia has acted in television programmes in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the P.R.C. and was nominated in the 30th Taiwan Golden Bell ‘Best Actress Award’ for her performance in the television series Heaven Sword Versus Dragon Sabre. She has also performed on stage with lead roles in four plays in Hong Kong; Les Liaisons Dangereuses which had a run of six performances, The Wilderness with eight performances, Magic Is The Moonlight which enjoyed Magic Is The Moonlight which enjoyed a staggering run of 36 performances and most recently, The End of Love Generation with a run of eight performances.