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Fann Wong (范文芳; pinyin: Fàn Wénfāng) (born January 27, 1971), birth name Fann Woon Fong, is a Singaporean Chinese actress, singer and model. She is a top film and television actress in her home country Singapore, and has starred in numerous films and television series in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. She has gained recognition in the United States for her role as Jackie Chan's sister in Shanghai Knights
. She is currently based in Singapore under the management of MediaCorp.

Showbiz career

Early days: TV stardom in Singapore

Fann Woon Fong created her stage name Fann Wong by combining her parents' surnames (Fann and Wong, respectively). Born to middle-class parents in Singapore, Fann shared a hectic childhood with three siblings (an elder sister and a younger brother and sister). At the tender age of 16, she won a beauty contest organised by Her World, a Singapore fashion magazine. She started a very successful modelling career in Singapore, and sustained it by basing herself in Taiwan for more modelling work. One of her earliest successes was a highly memorable Taiwan-shot Oil of Ulan (now Olay) TVC, which was aired in Taiwan and Singapore.

In 1994, while modelling in Taiwan, she was discovered by a Singapore TV producer who cast her in a Singapore drama series titled Dreams Come True. Fann soon starred in two more Singapore TV series, The Challenger and Chronicle of Life, which brought her critical accolades and popularity in Singapore.

Her role in Chronicle of Life won her the Best Actress Award and the Best Newcomer Award in Singapore's 1995 Star Awards, an impressive feat considering that she had only been in the Singapore TV industry for only a year. In 1996, her role in The Unbroken Cycle
won her her first regional nomination at the Asian Television Awards. She continued to star in an impressive array of drama serials, including A Romance in Shanghai
(produced in Shanghai), Wild Orchids (filmed in Sydney) and Brave New World (filmed in Amsterdam and Belgium).

In late 1996, Fann released her first Mandarin pop album Fanntasy in Singapore, which contained a duet with Taiwanese singer Jeff Chang. This album, retitled I Live Alone and repackaged with two additional songs for the Taiwanese market, won 4 IFPI platinum sales awards in Taiwan and was the start of Fann's luminous regional success.

Late 90s: ascendance of regional popularity

In mid-1998, the simultaneous release of her definitive hit gongfu drama Return of the Condor Heroes, and her second album, Shopping (album), further increased her exposure and popularity in Taiwan and China. She was so popular that when the famed Hong Kong director Derek Yee caught Fann in her Shopping MTV on Channel V in Hong Kong, he flew to Singapore to cast her as the lead actress in the Hong Kong art movie The Truth About Jane and Sam
. This gritty wild-child role won her a Best New Performer nomination at the 19th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2000.

In 1999, Fann released her third album Missing You, recorded Private Number with British boyband 911 and performed Moments of Magic, Singapore's official millennium song. These musical successes resulted in her being the first Singapore artiste to stage a solo paying concert ("My Story" - Fann Wong In Concert) at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in 2000. That same year, she released her fourth Mandarin album, No Problem.

Over the next several years Fann began to focus on acting for TV and film, with varied work such as a feminist Hong Kong film titled When I Fall in Love...With Both
, a romantic Singapore TV series Looking For Stars
, and an action-packed Taiwanese period series titled Madam White Snake
. During this time she also began hosting travelogue shows, including Travel Hunt: Japan and Fann Adventure (filmed in South Africa and Malaysia).

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Actors - Fann Wong

Showbiz career

Early days: TV stardom in Singapore

Late 90s: ascendance of regional popularity

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