Cheng Pei-pei | |||||||||||||||
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| 鄭佩佩 | |||||||||||||||
 Cheng in 2014 | |||||||||||||||
| Born | Jiang Pei-pei 6 January 1946 Shanghai, China | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 17 July 2024 (aged 78) San Francisco Bay Area, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Citizenship | United States | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Actress | ||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1963–2020 | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Yuan Wen-tung
(m. 1970; div. 1987) | ||||||||||||||
| Children | 4, including Eugenia Yuan | ||||||||||||||
| Awards | Hong Kong Film Awards – Best Supporting Actress 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | ||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鄭佩佩 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 郑佩佩 | ||||||||||||||
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Cheng Pei-pei (6 January 1946 – 17 July 2024) was a Hong Kong-American actress who started her career in 1963 and was considered cinema's first female action hero.[1][2] She is known for films Come Drink with Me (1966), Flirting Scholar (1993), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), TV series Young Justice Bao (2000), Chinese Paladin (2004) and reality show Divas Hit the Road (2014). [3]
- ^ Lim, Ruey Yan (19 July 2024). "Cheng Pei-pei, star of Come Drink With Me and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, dies at 78". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ^ "The First Female Action Hero (Cheng Pei-pei's Movies Explained)". Screen Rant. 24 October 2020.
- ^ Tam, Arthur (31 March 2015). "Cheng Pei-pei (鄭佩佩) on Ang Lee and her iconic roles with Shaw Studios". Time Out Hong Kong. Retrieved 14 March 2020.