Deanie Ip (born 25 December 1947) is a

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singer and actress. She has won the Hong Kong Film Awards once for Best Actress and three times for Best Supporting Actress. Deanie also won the Golden Horse Awards once for Best Leading Actress and twice for Best Supporting Actress; she also won a Coppa Volpi for the Best Actress at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. Her Cantopop albums were released by

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and several local labels. A Hakka of Huiyang ancestry, she speaks

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, Dapeng dialect, Mandarin and English.

Music career

In the 1980s, Ip released five albums with a local producer. After complaining about the direction of the Cantopop industry and falling out with her then label, Black and White, Ip chose to retire from music in 1988 and went into semi-retirement, with occasional roles in movies. She returned to the Cantopop scene in 2002 with an EP, which, along with a live recording of her 2002 concert in Hong Kong, were both released by

. In the mid-90s, she teamed up with male star Andy Hui to produce the hit duet "教我如何不愛他" (lit. "Teach me how not to love him") and again in 2004 for the award-winner "美中不足" (lit. "A minor defect in something otherwise perfect").

Film career and recognition

Ip has been recognised on several occasions, including in '' A Simple Life'', for which she won Coppa Volpi for the Best Actress at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. Hong Kong Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Gregory So congratulated her for winning the award, stating the award was not only an international recognition of her outstanding achievement, but a testimony of the level of excellence of the Hong Kong film industry. ''A Simple Life'' marked the 10th collaboration between Ip and

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, with whom she first star in '' The Unwritten Law'' in 1985. Ip has twice won Best Supporting Actress in the Hong Kong Film Awards for her roles in '' Dances with Dragon'' (11th Hong Kong Film Awards, 1991), and in '' My Name Ain't Suzy'' (5th Hong Kong Film Awards, 1985). She has also been nominated as Best Supporting Actress on three times occasions: '' Wrong Wedding Trail'' (4th Hong Kong Film Awards, 1984), '' Spiritual Love'' (7th Hong Kong Film Awards, 1987) and ''Murder'' (13th Hong Kong Film Awards, 1993). She has also won Best Supporting Actress at the 36th Golden Horse Awards for '' Crying Heart'' (2012). Before filming ''A Simple Life'', Ip had a 12-year hiatus from acting, about the hiatus she stated “I was viewed by some in the business as a disobedient actress who loves to play the role of a director on set. I am also not great at networking. I guess these are the reasons why I haven’t been offered a lot of work."

Politics

Ip alongside concert promoter Cheung Yiu-wing. Ip participated in Hong Kong's 2014 Umbrella Movement, where protesters demanded

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from the government. She was involved in recording Denise Ho's Cantopop song "Raise the Umbrella" ().Qin, Amy; Wong, Alan (24 October 2014)
"Stars Backing Hong Kong Protests Pay Price on Mainland"
. ''The New York Times'' The song had been described as an inspiring

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for the pro-democracy movement. During the

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campaign, Ip expressed her support for activist Nathan Law and stated, "I believe that this young man does everything he does for Hong Kong, and for his generation." In 2019, Ip joined the pro-democracy demonstrations during the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests. Ip was one of few Hong Kong celebrities to voice support for the protesters, leading to her songs being removed from

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platforms. Untroubled by the loss of this income stream, she continued to voice her admiration for the young protestors.

Filmography

Footnotes

References

External links

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Deannie Yip Tak-Han at hkmdb.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ip, Deanie 1947 births Living people 20th-century Hong Kong actresses 21st-century Hong Kong actresses Actresses from Guangdong Best Actress Asian Film Award winners Cantopop singers Hakka musicians Hong Kong contraltos 20th-century Hong Kong women singers Hong Kong film actresses Hong Kong people of Hakka descent Hong Kong television actresses People from Huiyang Chinese anti-communists People from Shenzhen Volpi Cup for Best Actress winners