Veronica Yip Yuk Hing (; born February 12, 1967) is a Macau-born American actress and singer who is probably most well known for her roles in

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Career

Film

Veronica Yip was born in

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and started her career in participating in the 1985

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and received the 2nd runner-up award. Her career breakthrough was when she starred in adult films which previously were considered taboo for mainstream actresses in the Hong Kong market. Yip has starred in a total of three of these Category III films: ''Take Me'' (1991), ''Pretty Woman'' (1992) and ''Hidden Desire'' (1992). All three films were regarded as commercial successes and paved the way for mainstream actresses, such as

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and

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to act in such films. Aside from these films, Yip has also starred in many critically acclaimed Chinese movies, including

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's '' The Eagle Shooting Heroes'' and

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's ''Red Rose, White Rose'' (1994). Yip's ability to escape the soft porn market paving the way for actresses such as

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and Pauline Chan to do the same.

Music

Yip had a singing career when she joined Fitto Entertainment, owned by her brother Yip Chi-Ming, before the company was transitioned into

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, releasing seven

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and

mandopop Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; later influences came from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop ...

albums between 1992 and 1995. Yip received three Best New Artist gold awards from 1992 Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation,

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, and

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Family

In 1998, Yip invested a large sum in her brother's project of building a Disneyland in Hong Kong. However, the project was scrapped along with the budget causing a fallout between the two. Yip and her brother later reconciled. Yip met her husband, Chinese-American businessman Jeffrey Wu (胡兆明) when Yip was hired by Premier Entertainment in New York to perform a concert at the Trump Marina in Atlantic City. After marrying Wu in 1996, Yip retired from entertainment and moved to the United States where Wu runs the

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chain. The couple have a daughter and two sons and currently reside on

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. They also have substantial investments in

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, a business jet trading company, and various business-use real estate projects.

Political stance

In November 2020, Yip mentioned that she was a Republican supporter and supported the second term of Donald Trump.

References

External links

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HK cinemagic entry

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