In 1953, the 6-year-old Josephine Siao played the role of Sun Shaoye Gao Haichen in the stage play "Home".
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In 1954, just after Josephine Siao’s 7th birthday, Xiao’s mother’s friend director Li Hua invited Josephine Siao to play a guest role in her new play "Tear of a young concubine", and Josephine Siao has officially stepped into the film industry.
. Xiao's mother also discovered her daughter's talent in acting, and since then began to focus on cultivating Josephine Siao's acting ability. In the second year, Josephine Siao was admitted to the Union Film Enterprise company in Hong Kong , and performed the movie " An orphan's tragedy " with the teenager Bruce Lee
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In 1955, Josephine Siao co-starred in " The Orphan Girl " with Linda . Josephine Siao plays the childhood of the heroine. This film is a famous work by Josephine Siao. She won the Best Child Star Award at the Second Southeast Asian Film Festival for her just two years after her debut. The stage name "Fangfang" was also given to her by director Yan Jun
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What really made Josephine Siao famous was in 1958 when she was 11 years old when she co-starred with Hu Die , who was back in 30 years, the movie "The Wandering Child", which was the first Chinese film to be nominated for the Gold Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The film's theme song " in the world only mothers dear " sung by Josephine Siao was later introduced into Taiwanese movies and became a widely circulated song in the three places.
In 1960, 13-year-old Josephine Siao starred in the first martial arts film " Qingcheng shijiu xia " and the first Cantonese film " Yun Niang ". After that, she became popular in the Cantonese film world. By 1966, Josephine Siao appeared in more than 100 costume films in just a few years. Sometimes she had to shoot two or three films within a month.
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In 1966, 19-year-old Josephine Siao joined Guangyi Film Company and starred in her first fashion show " Romance of a teenage girl ". In the film, she played three roles and performed 18 dances with singing and dancing.
Since then, Josephine Siao has filmed a series of fashion films, in " The Flying Red Rose ", she played 10 roles alone
. In " Purple Stormy Night " she performed cha-cha, jazz, classical ballet and various folk dances. In " Teddy Girls ", Josephine Siao portrays the image of a rebellious girl, setting a box office record for Hong Kong Cantonese films at that time. At this time, Josephine Siao successfully transformed from a costume film actor to a fashion musical actor.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Hong Kong artists became popular to worship, Josephine Siao, Fung So Bor , Chi-Wah Sum , Connie Chan , Nancy Sit , female andフウホウホウ7 girls who met and worshipped because they were both child stars and acting in Cantonese films. Up"", Josephine Siao is called "Princess Rose". "" He also co-produced a movie of the same name "".
In 1970, Josephine Siao abandoned her shadow and went to study in the United States. In 1973, Josephine Siao returned to Hong Kong after obtaining a bachelor's degree in mass communication. She originally planned to take her mother to settle in the United States and continue her studies, but was eventually persuaded by a Taiwanese director to go to Japan to film " Hiroshima 28 " with Charlie Chin .
Josephine Siao, who returned to the film world, began to experiment with different types of films and roles. In 1974, co-starring with Charlie Chin and Brigitte Lin in " Girl Friend ", Josephine Siao won the 12th Golden Horse Awards for Best Supporting Actress for this film . In the same year, she won the Best Actress Award in the 5th Spanish Film Festival for her lead role in " Sea Rhyme "
. In 1975, he co-starred with Charlie Chin again in "Saigon. Taipei. Kaohsiung"
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In 1976, he wrote, directed, and acted in the film " Jumping Ash ". Appraised by the Hong Kong film circle as a prelude to the new wave of Hong Kong movies
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In 1977, he hosted the comedy show "Points Only Simple" in Television Broadcasts Limited , which created the image of "Lin Yazhen" as a silly big sister. Later, Josephine Siao's self-organized film company put this character on the big screen, produced and performed a series of " Lin Yazhen" movie.
In 1979, in cooperation with director Ann Hui , he produced and acted " COINCDENTALLY " ( also known as "Miss Hit the Ghost" ), which dilutes body language and incorporates folklore elements.
In 1980, went to Taiwan to star in the TV series "", with the drama Josephine Siao won the 16th The Golden Bell Awards for Best Actress
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In 1982, Josephine Siao went to the United States again for further studies. Returned to Hong Kong in 1984.
In 1988, he starred in the comedy " Dum Kum ". In the same year, Josephine Siao won the Best Actress Award in the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards for this film
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In 1993, co-starring with Jet Li in "The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk", playing The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk's mother Miao Cuihua. In the movie, Miao Cuihua is a strong martial artist, but he is careless and reckless. With her performance in this film, she became familiar to mainland movie fans
. In the same year, she and Mr. Boo! co-starred in the New Year film " Always On My Mind ", and both films were nominated for the Best Actress in the Hong Kong Film Awards
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In 1995, Josephine Siao in the film " Summer Snow plays a middle-aged woman suffering from a troubled life" in virtue of the film won the 15th Film Awards Hong Kong , 1st Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia Awards , 2nd Hong Kong Film Critics Society and the 32nd Golden Horse Awards for best actress, and won the 45th Berlin International Film Festival best actress Award, becoming Maggie Cheung after the second Chinese actress Berlin. In the same year, he won the highest achievement award from the Asian Filmmakers Association.
1996 in the movie ""China is playing an Yuejumingling, with this film, Josephine Siao won the 41st Asian Pacific Film Festival and the 33rd Golden Horse Awards for best actress
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Because of his performance over the years, Josephine Siao was awarded the MBE Queen and the Hong Kong Artist of the Year Award in 1997
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After co-starring with Blackie Ko and Chiu Man-Cheuk in " Ma qiao fei long " in 1997 , Josephine Siao was troubled by ear problems and basically disappeared from the screen. The film also became the last film and television work of Josephine Siao
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In 1999, Josephine Siao was selected as one of "My 5 Most Unforgettable Heroines" by TVB with the classic role of "Lin Yazhen"
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In 2009, Josephine Siao, who was nearly deaf, won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards in recognition of his contribution to the Hong Kong film industry
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