Wang Szu-yi (born Wang Hsin-ching on 11 December 1972), also known as Brenda Wang, is a Taiwanese actress and former model.

Career

Wang became a model in 1985. In 1989 she was named a "Top 10 model in

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". She started her acting career in the 1993 mega-hit Taiwanese TV series '' Justice Pao'', but her breakout did not come until 1998, when she portrayed

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in the 1998 Chinese TV series ''

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''. This role made her well known in

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, where she has based her career since. In 2000, she appeared in a skit on

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along with Pan Changjiang and

Gong Hanlin Gong HanLin ( zh, s=巩汉林, t=鞏漢林, p=Gǒng Hànlín; born 20 October 1957) is a Chinese actor and xiangsheng performer and sketch comedy performer. Gong is notable for performing sketch comedy in CCTV New Year's Gala since 1990. Biogr ...

, becoming the first Taiwanese actor to appear on China's most-watched annual television event.

Filmography

Films

Television

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References

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External links

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account) * * (same person) Taiwanese television actresses Taiwanese film actresses 20th-century Taiwanese actresses 21st-century Taiwanese actresses Actresses from Kaohsiung 1972 births Living people {{Taiwan-actor-stub