Zhu Hong

Biography

Zhu Hong is a Hong Kong actress born in Kunming, Yunnan, China on October 21, 1941. Her original name was Zhu Yuanyuan. She moved to Hong Kong in 1955 and entered the film industry by chance when director Ren Zhixi and Liu Su, wife of Bao Fang, discovered her. She became an actress at the Phoenix Film Company, where director Zhu Shilin gave her the stage name Zhu Hong. She rose to fame in 1957 with the comedy film "First Love" and became the company's leading actress. She starred in numerous films including "Little Moon", "The Painted Skin", "Qu Yuan", "Popular Figure", and "Father and Son". She retired from acting in 1981 after completing "Father and Son" and moved to behind-the-scenes work. Since 1985, she served as public relations executive and executive producer at Yin Du Institution. She was a council member of the South China Film Workers Association, an advisor to the Film Group of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, and a member of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. She studied gemology in Britain in 2002 and obtained a gemologist qualification. She married Phoenix Film Company manager Chen Jingbo in 1970; they had one son who works in computer science in the United States.