Flora Chan Wai-shan (

Traditional Chinese A tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common examp ...

:陳慧珊, in

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

), is an American actress active primarily in Hong Kong television and film. Along with

Maggie Cheung Ho-yee Maggie Cheung Ho-yee (; born 20 March 1969) is a Hong Kong actress. Career Maggie Cheung Ho-yee was a member of four-piece girl band "PP Gals" in 1991. Her name was "Tina" in the band. They released an album called "PP Gals. DJ Boy" and disb ...

, Kenix Kwok,

Jessica Hsuan Jessica Hester Hsuan ( PA: syn hyn born 18 August 1970), also known as Suen Huen, is a Hong Kong actress. Early life Hsuan's father gave her the name Jessica, while her mother gave her the middle name Hester. She was educated in Hong Kong ...

, and

Ada Choi Ada Choi Siu-fan (; born 17 September 1973) is a Hong Kong actress who gained fame with the TVB dramas such as '' Healing Hands'' (1998–2000) and '' Where the Legend Begins'' (2002), before she shifted her career to mainland China, where she gai ...

, she is known as one of the Top 5 " Fa Dans" (term used for actresses with high popularity) of TVB from the mid-1990s to mid-2000s.

Biography

Rather than getting her start from modelling or a beauty pageant, the

Miss Hong Kong Pageant Miss Hong Kong Pageant (), or Miss HK () for short, is an annual beauty pageant organised by local Hong Kong television station, TVB. The pageant was established in 1946, and acquired by TVB in 1973. Regulations Recruitment All participants ...

, (香港小姐競選) which provides actresses for HK's television station,

TVB Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB; zh, t=電視廣播有限公司) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong. The company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Canton ...

, Chan was a reporter for the

English Channel,

TVB Pearl TVB Pearl () is an English-language television channel in Hong Kong owned by Television Broadcasts Limited. Established on 19 November 1967, it shares headquarters with TVB's other properties at TVB City at 77 Chun Choi Street in Tseung Kwan ...

. In the mid-1990s, television director Teng Dak-Hei asked her to participate in his upcoming series, the fifth installment to the popular TVB drama series, '' File of Justice''. Chan's performance in this series about young, yuppie lawyers caught the attention of the HK audience, and TVB. She joined as a TVB actress and has since made other series, most notably '' Untraceable Evidence'', playing the calm and collected forensics doctor, "Pauline Lip"; and in '' Healing Hands'', a TVB series known for its cutting edge

medical Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

topics. In 2002, Chan won the coveted "Most Favourite TV Actress" award presented annually by TVB. Having already starred in various TVB dramas, she is no longer signed on with TVB as a full-time

actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

. In November 2006, Chan announced she would be returning to film a TVB serial in February 2007.

Filmography

TV series

Film

Discography

*Flora Chan (2000) *自在 (2001) *愛得起 (2002)

References

External links

* * , - ! colspan="3" style="background: #DAA520;" ,

TVB Anniversary Awards The TVB Anniversary Awards (), officially known as the TVB Awards Presentation, is an annual awards ceremony honouring TVB's programming achievements in Hong Kong television; despite claims that it is the region's equivalent to the American E ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chan, Flora Living people American actresses of Chinese descent Female models from Massachusetts American television actresses Hong Kong emigrants to the United States Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences alumni Actresses from Boston TVB veteran actors 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses 20th-century Hong Kong actresses 21st-century Hong Kong actresses 21st-century American singers 21st-century American women singers Year of birth missing (living people)