Fann Wong

At 53 years old, Fann Wong has this physical status:

Fann Woon Fong (born 27 January 1971), better known by her stage name Fann Wong, is a Singaporean actress, singer and model and managed under Huayi Brothers and Catwalk Production House.

She is referred to as MediaCorp's "Ah Jie" (senior actress) together with Zoe Tay and Xiang Yun for being among the first locally trained artistes. At Singapore's Star Awards 1995, Fann became the first actress to win both the Best Actress and Best Newcomer awards in the same year.

After gaining regional exposure and popularity in Asia through film and television productions, she became the first Singaporean actress to break into Hollywood, playing Chon Lin in the 2003 film Shanghai Knights.

She was also the youngest actress to have earned an All-Time Favourite Artiste at the Star Awards after winning the Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes award from 1995 to 2004 respectively with Xie Shaoguang. She married actor Christopher Lee on 29 September 2009.

Personal life

Fann has been romantically involved with Malaysian actor Christopher Lee since late 2002. They went public with their relationship in mid-2005. She had only one prior romance known to the public: an 11-year relationship with businessman Anthony Chan.

Fann and Lee have collaborated eight times in television productions and have played lovers in six of these. After publicly acknowledging their relationship in mid-2005, they were seldom seen together. However, in December 2006, they walked together hand-in-hand down the blue carpet of the 2006 Star Awards ceremony. The gesture was noted by the Singapore media as a rare public acknowledgement of their relationship.

In September 2008, it was rumoured she would be marrying Lee. They were married on 16 May 2009. Costing at S$5 million, their wedding was featured in an infotainment show called The Wedding (范心有李), which was hosted by Michelle Chong, Mark Lee, and Dennis Chew. On 9 August 2014, Fann gave birth to a son named Zed.

In July 2020, Fann alerted her fans to a scammer using her identity to get her fans' personal information. The scam asked fans to register their names on a website in order to receive a giveaway prize.

On 5 July 2021, Fann's dad passed on at the age of 81.

On 13 October 2021, Fann opened her online pastry shop called Fanntasy.

Fann's hobbies include illustrating comics, shopping, and eating.

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Early life and career

Fann was born in Singapore to Hakka tailor parents, as well as a younger brother and a younger sister named Fan Wen Qing (former child actress). She was educated at Temasek Secondary School, where she took her GCE 'O'Level examinations in 1987.

Fann appeared in many SBC children's films while attending primary school and appeared in many SBC children's films. She won a beauty competition run by Her World, a Singapore fashion publication, at the age of 16. She began a successful modeling career in Singapore and spent the next two years as a student taking her GCE 'A' Level examinations at a private school. She earned a diploma in fashion merchandising from LaSalle International Fashion School in Singapore afterward.

In 1993, Fann moved to Taiwan. Oil of Ulan (now Oil of Olay) commercial aired in Taiwan and Singapore, one of her earliest triumphs. In Dreams Come True, a Singapore drama film, a Singapore television producer discovered her and starred her. Fann appeared in two more Singapore television shows The Challenger and Chronicle of Life shortly after.

At the 1995 Star Awards in Singapore, she gained her Best Actress and Best Newcomer awards after a year in television broadcasting. Her debut in 1996 as a member of The Unbroken Cycle gained her first regional nomination at the Asian Television Awards. She continued to appear in a number 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).

Fann debuts in Singapore in late 1996, her first Mandarin pop album, Fanntasy, featured a duet (theme song of her television drama 'Brave New World") with Taiwanese singer Jeff Chang. The album was retitled I Live Alone and repackaged with two more songs for the Taiwanese market, winning four IFPI platinum sales awards in Taiwan, launching Fann's regional success.

Fann appeared in the 40-episode blockbuster drama Brave New World with Christopher Lee and Hong Kong actor Alex Man. This was the first time Fann and Christopher Lee would work together. As a duet with Taiwanese singer Jeff Chang, Fann performed "Don't let love become difficult for us."

Fann appeared in TCS's TCS version of the hit wuxia film The Return of the Condor Heroes, where she appeared alongside Christopher Lee once more in 1998. The success of this drama, as well as her second album, Shopping, boosted her exposure in Taiwan and China. When Hong Kong director Derek Yee saw Fann's "Shopping" music video on Hong Kong's Channel V, he travelled to Singapore to cast her as the lead actress in the Hong Kong art film The Truth About Jane and Sam. For three weeks, the film dominated the Singapore box office, and her role as a vivacious wild-child received her a Best New Performer award at the 19th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2000. In addition, her appearance in Out to Win as a self-centred stockbroker attracted a million viewers in Singapore during its finale. Fans of Fann were gathered among the Fann-atic Fan Club's die-hard followers during this time (FFC).

Fann released her third album, Missing You, in 1999, and performed Moments of Magic, Singapore's official millennium song. These musical triumphs culminated in her becoming the first Singapore artiste to stage a solo paying concert ("My Story"—Fann Wong in Concert) at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in 2000. No Problem was her fourth Mandarin album released the year before.

Fann's interest in acting began within the next two years. In the omnibus Hong Kong film When I Fall in Love, she starred as a lovelorn insurance agent in the Singaporean romantic drama Looking For Stars as well as playing the title character in Madam White Snake's Taiwanese period drama. She has also appeared on travelogue shows, including Travel Hunt: Japan and Fann Adventure, which were shot in South Africa and Malaysia.

Fann was the first Singaporean actress to play a major part in a Hollywood film as Chon Lin in Shanghai Knights in 2002. Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post said when the film was released in early 2003:

According to Forbes, Fann was "more than equal to playing the tough woman fighter who's also very darn cute," according to Omaha World-Herald's John Keenan, "Fann's stunt work is actually more memorable than Jackie Chan's here." The South China Morning Post announced that she was "about to displace Lucy Liu as Hollywood's Asian babe du jour" in Hong Kong. She was then nominated under the Best Fight category in the MTV Movie Awards 2003, and in 2004, she was named Best International Artiste Award of the Singapore Street Festival.

Fann began working in China during the 1980s, including Moon Fairy and My Fair Lady. Always on My Mind, a Singapore serial based on the SARS virus, earned her a Best Actress award at the 2004 Star Awards. Fann appeared in the leading role in the German-Singapore film House of Harmony in mid-2004. Girl Illustrated, Fann's first book, came out in late 2004. In Love With You, her first album after a five-year absence, has been released.

Fann was invited to the Cannes MIPTV Media Market in April 2005, where she promoted House of Harmony and explored potential collaborations with European industry experts. She was named One of the Top ten Most Popular Female Artists by the All-Time Favorite Artist for winning the Top ten Most Popular Female Artists award. Harmony's home has since been televised in Germany, Austria, France, and Belgium, total prime-time viewership of over 80 million. Fann appeared in Dragon Eye Congee, a Taiwanese art-house romance film that was nominated for five categories at the inaugural Asian Festival of First Films, that year.

She made her voiceover debut in Singapore's first 3D animation film, Zodiac, which was released in early 2006. In addition, she recorded her songs for the movie's soundtracks.

Fann made her first promotional trip to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in November 2006. She appeared at the Tonle Sap Water Festival Mega Concert and visited the Krousar Thmey blind school, where she donated cassette recorders and biscuits.

Fann signed a Huayi Brothers management deal in early 2007. Fanntasy World is also the first Singaporean artist to debut a self-illustrated 3D animation. The releasing of her Singapore film Just Follow Law, in which she had to play an uncouth and scruffy man in a woman's body, was a major draw at the Chinese New Year box office and earned her critical acclaim in Singapore and Malaysian media.

She was invited to judge the sixth "spirit of fire" international film festival in Russia in 2008. Ah Long Pte Ltd reached No. 2 in the world of No. 2. During the Chinese new year, 1 in both Singapore's and Malaysia's box office rose to the top of the charts. Later, the film Dance of Dragon, which she partnered with Korean hunk Jang Hyuk, would win her first International Best Actress at the West Hollywood International Film Festival.

In 2009, Fann appeared alongside future husband Christopher Lee in The Wedding Game. At the first international comedy film festival in Thailand, the film received the best feature film. In June, she completed her latest Chinese film In a tangle. She starred with Alex Fong and Chang Chen in Hainan in September and filmed Cornflower blue in September. Both of them appeared on television in late 2010. She directed another comedies comedy film, Happy Go Lucky, which was on display at the Chinese New Year.

In 2010, she slowed down her pace, and only two dramas were shot. However, she earned her critic praise in many Chinese media for her role "Ren DaiDai" in the film "Japan De Zuihou Yiye starring Chinese actress Fan Bingbing. In 2011, two more Singaporean dramas were published.

However, 2012 seemed to be a whizzing year for Fann. She appeared as a syren in the series The Legend of Master Ji 3, before being accepted as a judge for TBS' fashion competition show Asian Ace at the beginning of the year. Later that day, she travelled to ShanDong to play a spicy wife in the film Ai Shui Shui together with Jaycee Chan and Jaycee Chan, as well as a telemovie Han di zhu gui based on novel Water Margin. In May, Runaway Woman, another film by the same name, was shot in Xinjiang. In Beijing's Olympic Sports Centre, she was named "2012 Huading Most Popular Asian Actress Award" for her "2012 Huading." Despite the fact that she didn't have a new album for years, she was still invited to perform at the 9th Asia Song Festival in Yeosul, Korea, on August 4th. In October, she returned to Xinjiang to film the period drama Tun Shu Xi Jiang about the Xinjiang revolution. She worked with Hong Kong actress Bowie Lam (her husband in the drama) and Chinese filmmaker Zhang Jizhong.

Fann's 2013 debut was a new one. At the end of 2012, she started her own studio, ended her Huayi Brothers, and signed a new deal with Taiwan's management firm Catwalk.

Illustrator Patrick Yee designed and illustrated a nearly wordless picturebook about a girl with the same name in 2014 after working with Fann on a children's charity in Thailand.

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