李沛妍

简介

Elizabeth Li Pui Yan was born in 1978 in New York, USA, and raised there, into a prominent Cantonese opera family from Hong Kong. Her grandfather Li Jianchao was a Cantonese opera playwright and impresario, her grandmother was a martial female role actor, and her father Li Qifeng was considered a child prodigy actor, playwright, and opera troupe administrator. Her mother Yu Huifen was a disciple of the famous actress Fang Yanfen, and her aunt Nan Hong was a Cantonese opera and Cantonese film actress. After graduating from Wellesley College with a degree in Chinese language and literature, she worked in the internet industry in Boston for two years before dedicating herself to Cantonese opera in 2002 under her father's tutelage, receiving training in singing and martial arts from teachers in Guangzhou, Shenyang, and Shanghai. In 2007, she was selected to play Princess Changping in a youth edition of "The Flower Princess" at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, marking the start of her Hong Kong career. In 2011, she became the goddaughter of Cantonese opera stars Luo Jiaying and Wang Mingquan. In 2014 and 2015, she was chosen by legendary actress Long Jiansheng as a performing partner, and participated in the "West Kowloon Rising Stars" showcase and "Ci Lang Zhou". She served on the Cantonese Opera Development Advisory Committee of the Home Affairs Bureau from 2010 to 2016 and is a board member of the Hong Kong Cantonese Opera Artists Association (39th term).