Rosamund Kwan

Biography

With its eyes in fines filled of a divine softness, Rosamund Kwan will remain forever one of the emblematic actresses of the cinema of Hong Kong of the period 1985-1995. Although, to its beginnings, having been confined in the role of the nice idiot, it gradually managed to impose characters intelligent, spiritual and independent, characteristics which will be magnifiées with the famous role of Aunt Yee in the series of IlOnce Upon A Time In Clouded. Born on September 24, 1962, in Hong Kong, within a family of actors made up of the father, Kwan Shan, a famous actor of the Sixties, and a mother Cheung Bing Sai, itself in the trade, Rosamund Kwan makes its beginnings with television at the 17 years age. Very quickly, it passes at the higher speed and makes a first appearance with the cinema in 1983 in The Head Hunter, a film with Chow Yun Fat at the head of poster. The actor having at that time only little success in the rooms, the film is a bide without call. After some productions of second zones (Lost Generation, Challenge one Chasing Girls), it obtains the first personal success with the boxoffice with The Frog Princess, a drama with Wong Jing with the realization and Maggie Cheung in principal role. Between 1985 and 1987, Rosamund Kwan turns very little, but with the good people since one can successively see it in films of Sammo Hung (Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars, Millionaire' S Express), then in those of Jackie Chan (Armour of God, Project A II). Nevertheless, like much of productions of this time, the actresses are regularly confined in roles of jug and the characters proposed with Rosamund Kwan do not escape this rule. Since 1988, Rosamund Kwan largely increases rate, turning between five and six films per year, in the most various kinds, taking part even in "Rape Vengeance Drama", of Lee Chi-Ngai. At that time, it becomes also the appointed partner of Andy Lau with which it turns in more than ten lesques films parmis one can quote Casino Raiders, Crocodile Hunter, Tricky Brains, Saviour of the Soul 2, The Sting and Gameboy Kids (aka Gameboy Kids). Their couple formed with the screen is so convincing that the rumour is not long in lending a real relation to them, fact which nevertheless will never be established. During the period covering 1988 to 1995, Rosamund Kwan shows a particularly amusing eclecticism, alternating ambitious films and the light or heavy series B. Having an extended dramatic range, it can in addition use of its charm, in particular of its single glance, like anybody of other. Paradoxically and in spite of this talent to be adapted to all the kinds of the cinema, it is above all for its films of action that Rosamund Kwan exerts such a fascination on the Western public. Indeed, force is to admit that for much, Rosamund Kwan, the actress, was born at the time of the first episode of the series Once Upon A Time In Clouded (It was once in China), initiated by Tsui Hark in 1991. It plays there with tenderness the role of Aunt Yee, the occidentalized girl friend of Wong Fei-Hong whom it hopelessly tries to convert with the joys of modernity. Present in all films of the saga, except for the fourth shutter produced by Yuen Bun, its discrete dynamism, its undeniable beauty, its sensitivity imparable and its good communicative mood largely contributed to the success so much public which criticizes met by the series. In addition, this first incursion into the world of the martial arts will not be only, since thereafter, it will also play the flying epeists in Swordman 2, the player of zither in Blade of Fury, the character of Butterfly Lam in The Magic Crane, or the splendid woman of snows of delirious Saviour of the Soul 2. In 1997, Rosamund Kwan leaves temporarily cinematographic industry hongkongaise, not without having for the last time to interpret the role of Aunt Yee in Once Upon A Time In Clouded And America (Dr. Wong in America). The year 2001 will be the year of the come-back since it appears in Big Shot Funeral, a Chinese production which enables him to interpret the role of the adoptive girl of Donald Sutherland. The following year, it continues its efforts of rehabilitation while playing in dispensable The Wesley' S Mysterious Story d' Andrew Lau, before completing the year with Mighty Baby, the pseudo-continuation of the Life jacket carried out by Patrick Leung and Chan Hing-Kar.