Cherie Chung

Cherie Chung
Attending a brand event in April 2019
Born	Chung Chor-hung (1960-02-16) 16 February 1960 (age 66) British Hong Kong
Citizenship	British
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1973–1994
Spouse	Mike Chu ​ ​ (m. 1991; died 2007)​
Awards	Asia Pacific Film Festival Best Actress 1984 Hong Kong, Hong Kong Asia Pacific Film Festival Best Actress 1987 An Autumn's Tale
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	鍾楚紅
Simplified Chinese	钟楚红
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōng Chǔ Hóng Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Chung Cho Hung

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Cherie Chung Chor-hung (Chinese: 鍾楚紅; Jyutping: zung1 co2 hung4; born 16 February 1960) is a retired Hong Kong film actress. Of Hakka ancestry, she was one of the top actresses in Hong Kong film during the 1980s.

Chung participated in the 1979 Miss Hong Kong competition and came in 3rd runner-up. She was later discovered by film director Johnnie To and debuted in his first film The Enigmatic Case (1980).^[1]

Her beauty and charm led her to become one of the top actresses in Hong Kong at the time. In her film career, one of her most famous performances was in Mabel Cheung's An Autumn's Tale (1987), where she portrayed Jennifer, an educated middle-class woman who falls in love with a rude and uneducated man played by Chow Yun-fat. She is known as the "Marilyn Monroe of Hong Kong" and the Chinese entertainment industry due to her beauty. Chung retired from acting in the 1990s. Her last film was John Woo's Once a Thief (1991), which was also a classic.^[2]

She married advertising guru Mike Chu in 1991 in the United States. Chu died of cancer in August 2007.^[1]

She is also very active in promoting environmental protection.

• Floating Clouds (1981) (RTHK television series "Hong Kong, Hong Kong", no. 1)

• Cherie Chung at IMDb
• Cherie Chung Cho Hung at hkmdb.com
• Cherie Chung Chor Hung at hkcinemagic.com
• Movie stills from An Autumn's Tale (Japan version) Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
• Floating Clouds (45 minutes; RTHK television series "Hong Kong, Hong Kong", no. 1; broadcast on 17 October 1981; RTHK official website)
• Ford, Stacilee. Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting's An Autumn's Tale (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2008)