Josie Ho
| Josie Ho | |||||||||||||
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| Chinese name | 何超儀 (traditional) | ||||||||||||
| Chinese name | 何超仪 (simplified) | ||||||||||||
| Pinyin | Hé Chāoyí (Mandarin) | ||||||||||||
| Birth name | Josephine Ho Chiu-yi | ||||||||||||
| Born |
26 December 1974 Hong Kong | ||||||||||||
| Occupation | actress, singer (contralto) | ||||||||||||
| Years active | 1994–present | ||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) |
Conroy Chan (2003–present) | ||||||||||||
| Parents |
Stanley Ho Lucina Laam | ||||||||||||
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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
| 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 |
| 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
- ↑ "Josie Ho speaks to Ukula Magazine".
- ↑ Korean Trailer for "Dream Home' Punishes the Audience, bloody-disgusting.com; accessed 17 September 2015.
- ↑ "Hong Kong's 852 Films begins production on first feature Dream Home". Screen International. 23 March 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- ↑ Seno, Alexandra A. (8 January 2008), "Josie Ho: Tracking a star, from Hong Kong to Sundance", The New York Times, retrieved 19 March 2010
External links
- Josie Ho at the Internet Movie Database
- Josie Ho at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
- Official Josie Ho website
- Josie Ho at Hong Kong Cinemagic
- Josie Ho at ChineseMov
- Josie Ho interview (video)
- The Establishing Shot talks to Josie Ho about Dream Home (video)
- Clifford Coonan: Hong Kong's poster girl is not your average heiress, Irish Times, 4 October 2011
- Alexandra A. Seno: Josie Ho: Tracking a star, from Hong Kong to Sundance, New York Times, 8 January 2008
- Johannes Pong: Billionaire heiress Josie Ho, hk.asia-city.com, 20 May 2010