Xu Fen

Biography

Xu Fen was a Chinese theatre actress. She studied drama at the South China Academy of Arts and Literature in 1950. After graduating, she joined the South China Repertory Theatre in 1953, and continued with its successor the Guangdong Repertory Theatre from 1957 until 1982. She was a member of the China Dramatists Association Guangdong Branch and also taught at the Guangdong Art School and Guangdong Cantonese Opera Training Class. In 1983 she emigrated to Hong Kong and joined the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre as a full-time actress. In 1991 she won the Best Actress (Tragedy/Drama) award at the inaugural Hong Kong Drama Awards for her role in the play "伴我同行". In 1994 she was nominated for Best Actress at the 14th Hong Kong Film Awards for the film adaptation of the same play. She also appeared in a popular 1994 bank commercial for which she won an Outstanding TV Commercial Actress award. Xu Fen passed away in 2002.