- Born
- Died
- Birth nameMei Yan Fang
- Nickname
- Madonna of Asia
- Height5′ 6½″ (1.69 m)
- With a career that began in her early childhood, Anita Mui is the queen
of Hong Kong's pop-music industry. After she won a singing contest in
1982, her life in the limelight began. In the early stages of her
career her image was a little bit tomboy-ish and sexy (which was the
reason she was called the "Madonna of Hong Kong"), and some of her
songs were considered too risqué, with one of them, "Bad Girl",
actually being banned from airplay due to its suggestive content. She
started her acting career at about the same time, often starring with
Anthony Chan, including
Huai nu hai (1986) and
One Husband Too Many (1988). Other
acting partners included Jackie Chan
and Leslie Cheung. Both her singing and
acting careers were a success. She won an enormous number of "Best
Female Singer" and "Most Popular Female Singer" awards in the 1980s,
and her acting career's climax was winning "Best Actress" awards
(Golden Horse Award and the inaugural Golden Dragon Awards in Taiwan,
Hong Kong Film Award, and the Pan-Asia Pacific Film Festival) in 1987
for Stanley Kwan's "Rouge"
Rouge (1987). In the early 1990s
she announced her "half" retirement from the singing industry. However,
by popular demand, she continued to record albums and to act in movies,
and by 1994, she engineered a full comeback to great critical and
popular acclaim.
She passed away from cervical cancer on December 30th, 2003. Many of
her friends were with her in her last hours.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Angie "Cougar Walk" Lau <skyknight@cyberdude.com> Update by: TCF; Update by FSY
- Was set to play the rebel leader Nia in House of Flying Daggers (2004) at the time of her death. Out of respect, the role was not recast and the character
only appeared in one scene, played by an actress with a similar body
type to Anita's, whose face was covered. The film was also dedicated to
her. - In 2003, she announced that she had cancer of the cervix and was determined to
fight it but sadly only survived until the end of the year. - Spoke Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, and some English.
- Was close friends with Michelle Yeoh, Yeoh was the host of the 2007 Anita Mui Memorial.
- Did her own dubbing for the Mandarin version of her movies earlier in
her career.
- Instant shining is not eternity. Show business is a hard life. I wonder
how many people will remember me after I leave the business for good.
My hope is that when they feel bored and look at the stars in the sky,
people will think of my name.
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