Deanie Ip (born 25 December 1947) is a

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singer and actress. She has won the

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once for Best Actress and three times for Best Supporting Actress. Deanie also won the

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once for Best Leading Actress and twice for Best Supporting Actress; she also won a Coppa Volpi for the Best Actress at the

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. Her Cantopop albums were released by

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and several local labels. A

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of Huiyang ancestry, she speaks

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, Dapeng dialect,

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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 ''A Simple Life'' (), also known as ''Sister Peach'', is a 2011 Hong Kong drama film directed by Ann Hui and starring Andy Lau and Deanie Ip. Ip, in the lead role of Sister Peach, won the Best Actress Award at the 68th Venice International Fil ...

'', for which she won Coppa Volpi for the Best Actress at the

. 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

Andy Lau Andy Lau Tak-wah ( zh, order=t,j, t=劉德華, j=Lau4 Dak1 Waa4; born Lau Fook-wing; 27 September 1961), is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer. He was named the "Fourth Tiger" among the Five Tiger Generals of TVB in the 1 ...

, with whom she first star in '' The Unwritten Law'' in 1985. Ip has twice won Best Supporting Actress in the

for her roles in ''

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'' (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

for ''

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'' (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 Denise Ho Wan-see (born 10 May 1977) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian Cantopop singer and actress. She is also a pro-democracy and Hong Kong human rights activist. In 2012, Ho came out as lesbian, the first mainstream Cantonese singer to do so. In ...

'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

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and stated, "I believe that this young man does everything he does for Hong Kong, and for his generation." In 2019, Ip joined the

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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