Josie Ho

Josie Ho
Chinese name 何超儀 (traditional)
Chinese name 何超仪 (simplified)
Pinyin Hé Chāoyí (Mandarin)
Birth name Josephine Ho Chiu-yi
Born (1974-12-26) 26 December 1974
Hong Kong
Occupation actress, singer (contralto)
Years active 1994 - present
Spouse(s) Conroy Chan
(2003-present)
Parents Stanley Ho
Lucina Laam

Josephine "Josie" Ho Chiu-yi (Chinese: 何超儀), born 26 December 1974) is a singer and actress from Hong Kong. She is the daughter of Macao casino magnate Stanley Ho.

Acting career

She has played many roles, including a few as prostitutes, which contrasted strongly with her own wealthy upbringing as a billionaire's daughter. For the film Exiled, Ho did not work with a script. Recalling the experience in a recent interview, she said of director Johnnie To, "[He] basically tells actors what to do ... Johnnie wants us to come to the set with our mind completely clean, like a white piece of paper. That way, he can draw whatever he wishes on us."[1] Ho starred alongside Eason Chan in the Pang Ho-cheung directed slasher film, Dream Home.[2]

In 2009, Ho along with husband Conroy Chan, and Andrew Ooi, co-founded 852 Films, a film production company.[3]

Personal life

Ho is the youngest daughter of businessman Stanley Ho and Ho's second wife Lucina Laam. She has 3 elder sister and 1 younger brother Pansy, Daisy, Maisy and Lawrence.

In November 2003, Ho married musician-actor Conroy Chan Chi-chung in Australia.

She credits her eldest sister Pansy with supporting her early efforts to establish a singing career over the objections of their father.[4]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1994 Victory Disappearance
1995 Tragic Commitment Blacky
1995 Black Dream Naked shopkeeper
1996 Those Were the Days Man-Sze
1996 Lost and Found Yee
1997 All's Well, Ends Well 1997 Kung's secretly loved girlfriend
1997 Chinese Box Lilly
1998 The End of Love Generation
1998 You Light Up My Life Joyce
1998 Anna Magdalena Michelle
1999 Slow Fade Kim
1999 Purple Storm Guan Ai
2000 Sexy and Dangerous II Nozzle
2000 For Bad Boys Only Jean
2001 Forever and Ever Fion
2001 The Enemy Wendy
2001 The Legend of a Professional Jenny
2001 City of Desire Pepper
2001 Horror Hotline... Big Head Monster Mavis Ho
2002 Color of Pain Ching Yin
2002 Dead or Alive: Final Jun
2002 Women from Mars Tom's ex-girlfriend
2002 Tai Tai Clara Short film
2002 Frugal Game Mrs. Lai
2002 So Close Ching
2003 My Lucky Star Mrs. Ma
2003 And Also the Eclipse
2003 The Twins Effect Lila
2003 1:99 Shorts Segment: "8"
2003 Naked Ambition Tess
2004 Six Strong Guys Eva
2004 Butterfly Flavia
2005 House of Fury GJ
2006 McDull, the Alumni Office girl
2006 Isabella Woman at herbal tea shop
2006 The Heavenly Kings Herself Cameo
2006 Men Suddenly in Black 2 Mrs. Turtle
2006 Exiled Jin (Wo's wife)
2007 Simply Actors Working girl
2007 The Drummer Sina
2008 A Decade of Love Segment: "Open Rice"
2009 Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li Cantana
2009 LaMB Keiko Suzuki Voice for English and Cantonese
2009 Cut Short Josie Short film
2009 Murderer Minnie
2009 Poker King Ms. Fong
2010 Dream Home Cheng Lai-sheung
2011 Contagion Li Fai's sister
2012 Floating City
2012 The Courier Anna
2012 Motorway Wei
2013 Badges of Fury Head Chief Cameo
2013 Open Grave Brown Eyes
2014 The Apostles
2014 Naked Ambition 2 Shodaiko Hatoyama
2014 The Seventh Lie Femme Fatale
2015 Full Strike Ng Kau-sau
2015 In the Room Orchid Completed
2016 House of Wolves
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1996 The Criminal Investigator
1997 Mystery Files
1997 A Road and a Will Yue Wing-kam
1999 At the Threshold of an Era
2000 At the Threshold of an Era II
2010 The Fugitive: Plan B Hwai
2014 Tomorrow Is Another Day Ting Ho-ho TVB Anniversary Award for Best Supporting Actress

References

  1. "Josie Ho speaks to Ukula Magazine".
  2. Korean Trailer for "Dream Home' Punishes the Audience, bloody-disgusting.com; accessed 17 September 2015.
  3. "Hong Kong's 852 Films begins production on first feature Dream Home". Screen International. 23 March 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  4. Seno, Alexandra A. (8 January 2008), "Josie Ho: Tracking a star, from Hong Kong to Sundance", The New York Times, retrieved 19 March 2010

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