Karen Mok 莫文蔚
Karen Mok 莫文蔚 was born in Hong Kong, China on June 2nd, 1970 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 53, Karen Mok 莫文蔚 biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
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Karen Joy Morris (Chinese: ; 2 June 1970) is one of China's top Chinese actresses and pop singers.
She has received the Golden Melody Award three times, has released over 20 solo CDs, appeared in over 40 films, and has over 14 million followers on Chinese microblogging site Weibo.
Early life
Karen Joy Morris, a Hong Kong woman, was born on June 2nd, 1970. She has mixed ancestry: her mother is half Chinese, quarter German, and quarter Persian, while her father is half Welsh and half Chinese, while her father is half Chinese. Alfred Morris, the first principal of King's College, Hong Kong, was her grandfather. She speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian, German, and French.
From primary to secondary school in Hong Kong, Mok attended Diocesan Girls' School. When she was a student at F.4 she received the 1st Hong Kong Outstanding Students Award. She received a scholarship for the United World College of the Adriatic in Duino, Italy, where she graduated in 1989 with the International Baccalaureate. She later studied Italian literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Private life
On October 1, 2011, Mok married her boyfriend, German-born Johannes Natterer, at a church near Florence, Italy. Mok has three adult step-children and divides her time between London and her international commitments. She and her husband's 6th wedding anniversary in 2017 celebrated together with a lavish dinner at Kensington Palace.
Music career
When studying in London, Mok auditioned for the West End Musical Miss Saigon. She also produced music demo tapes with fellow students, which culminated in her first recording contract with Star Records. She decided to put her theatre dreams on hold, returning to Hong Kong and releasing Karen in 1993, her first Cantonese album. To Be's first Mandarin album To Be, she had her musical breakthrough in 1997. Karen Mok in Totality (1995), Without you (2006), [i] Karen Mok, (2000), The most popular ones being a (2007), Without you (2004), a child of Jesus, a mother of 2 children (1995), L!VE (2006), She has released 17 studio albums, including Ta Bu Ai Wo,..., Without you.
She released her first English album Somewhere I Am, an East-meets-West reinterpretation of jazz classics in 2013. On several tracks, the album is recorded in China with Asian musicians and the guzheng. On the 30th of May 2013, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London, showcased this album. Mok's song title says "It's about what I do, when I feel confident, that's when I'm doing what I love most, that's performing on stage, and just singing my heart out, sharing my emotions." "So, where I belong."
Mok has released several EPs and compilations, and her music has been featured in more than 324 CD compilations. In 2018, she launched Mok-a-by-baby Records, which was a joint venture with Sony Music.
In 2000, she performed her debut solo concert The very Karen Mok show in Taipei attracted 20,000 people. She began her international concert tours with the Extremely Karen Mok Show (2009–2011) and the tour The Age of MOKnificence (2014/2015), which commemorates her 20th anniversary of show business. She took on the role of creative director and producer in her concert tours starting in 2005.
Mok’s most recent concert tours are:
Regardez (2015-2016). This tour started in Taipei and took Mok to 27 cities in Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand. She was the first Chinese pop artist to perform solo concerts in Madrid and Milan as part of this tour.
Ultimate (2018-2021): This tour started on June 23, 2018, with the performance in the Hong Kong Football Stadium in Shanghai, drawing more than 20,000 spectators and totaling 48 concerts in 40 cities in Asia, Europe, and Australia. The tour was largely conducted in outdoor stadiums, with a maximum attendance of 40,000 in Beijing Workers' Stadium on September 22nd, 2019. She appeared in Lhasa (Tibet) on October 12th, setting the Guinness World Record for the Highest Altitude Mass-Attended Music Concert and being the first solo stadium concert in Tibet. The Taipei Arena (Taipei), which took place on 07 and 08 December 2019, had the unique feature that she performed entirely different song lists on each night. In London, she and her first Chinese pop singer to perform in this venue made it to the Folies Bergère and in Paris. Mok was on the 25th anniversary of show business with the Ultimate tour. The tour concluded with three concerts in Hong Kong in June 2021, which was interrupted by the worldwide Covid pandemic.
Mok revealed in May 2019 that this would be her last major concert tour tour as she shifts her attention to other artistic pursuits going forward.
With many leading international artists, Mok has collaborated on stage and in the studio. She appeared together with The Black Eyes, Andrea Bocelli, Far East Movement, Lang Lang, John Legend, Sergio Mendes, Mika, Keanu Reeves, and Pharrell Williams, among others.
Acting career
In the film The Legend of Canton, Mok made her film debut in 1993. In 1995, she appeared alongside Stephen Chow in A Chinese Odyssey for the first time. She appeared in Wong Kar Wai's film Fallen Angels this year, for which she was named Best Supporting Actress at the Hong Kong Film Award and the Golden Bauhinia Awards. She appeared in more than 40 films in total.
She appeared in Around the World in 80 Days with Jackie Chan (credited as Karen Joy Morris, her birth name) and in the Thai horror film The Coffin, which was outside Greater China. She appeared in Keanu Reeves' debut male lead role in Man of Tai Chi, a female lead.
Mok has often branched into other areas of performance throughout her career. In the tenth Anniversary of the Broadway musical Rent in 2005/2006, she appeared as the female lead Mimi. Princess Kida appeared in Atlantis: The Lost Empire's Cantonese dub in 2001. Mok performed the theme tune of the Hong Kong TVB drama Flying Tiger II in 2020. ", Breathing Is Hazardous" was the theme tune on all radio, TV, and digital television broadcasting stations in Hong Kong, a first in Cantopop.
She appeared in the two reality TV shows Up Idol () of Hunan Television and The Next () of Dragon Television in 2016 and 2017.
At Weibo Starlight Awards 2020, Mok received the coveted Breathing is Hazardous award.