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Yip met her husband, Chinese-American businessman Jeffrey Wu (胡兆明), through his nephew playing Yip's son in her movie ''Moonlight Sonata''. After marrying Wu, Yip retired from entertainment and moved to the United States where Wu runs the Hong Kong Supermarket chain. The couple have a daughter and two sons and currently reside on Long Island. They also have substantial investments in United International Bank, a business jet trading company, and various business-use real estate projects. | Yip met her husband, Chinese-American businessman Jeffrey Wu (胡兆明), through his nephew playing Yip's son in her movie ''Moonlight Sonata''. After marrying Wu, Yip retired from entertainment and moved to the United States where Wu runs the Hong Kong Supermarket chain. The couple have a daughter and two sons and currently reside on Long Island. They also have substantial investments in United International Bank, a business jet trading company, and various business-use real estate projects. | ||
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| Born | February 12, 1967 |
| Ethnicity | Asian |
| Nationality | Chinese |
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| Body type | Slim |
| Eye color | Brown |
| Hair | Brown |
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Veronica Yip Yuk Hing (葉玉卿) (born 12 February 1967) is a Chinese actress in Hong Kong, who is probably most well known for her roles in "adult" Category III films (while, not pornographic, these films do contain nudity and sexual situations that are more commonly found in softcore American films such as Basic Instinct).
Film career
She was born in Hong Kong and started her career in participating in the 1985 Miss Asia Pageant and received the 2nd runner-up award. Her career breakthrough was when she starred in adult films which previously were considered taboo for mainstream actresses in the Hong Kong market. Yip has starred in a total of three of these Category III films: Take Me (1991), Pretty Woman (1992) and Hidden Desire (1992). All three films were regarded as commercial successes and paved the way for mainstream actresses, such as Loletta Lee and Irene Wan to act in such films.
Aside from these films, Yip has also starred in many films critically acclaimed Chinese movies, including Jeffrey Lau's The Eagle Shooting Heroes and Stanley Kwan's Red Rose, White Rose (1994). Yips ability to escape the soft porn market paving the way for actresses such as Shu Qi and Pauline Chan to do the same.
Other interests
Yip also hads a brief singing career when she joined her brother's Fitto Entertainment, which was the former Emperor Entertainment Group.
Family
In 1998, Yip invested a large sum in her brother's project of building a Disneyland in Hong Kong. However, the project was scrapped along with the budget causing a fallout between the two. Yip and her brother later reconciled.
Yip met her husband, Chinese-American businessman Jeffrey Wu (胡兆明), through his nephew playing Yip's son in her movie Moonlight Sonata. After marrying Wu, Yip retired from entertainment and moved to the United States where Wu runs the Hong Kong Supermarket chain. The couple have a daughter and two sons and currently reside on Long Island. They also have substantial investments in United International Bank, a business jet trading company, and various business-use real estate projects.
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