Michelle Sze Ma Yin

Biography

Sze Ma Yin (original name Han Siu Ling) was a Hong Kong actress born on 15 March 1963. She grew up in Yuen Long in the New Territories and was the seventh of eight siblings. Her father died of stomach cancer when she was three years old. After graduating from secondary school, she worked at the Hong Kong branch of the American Bank. She participated in the Miss Hong Kong pageant in the early 1980s and in 1983 took part in the casting for the role of "Huang Rong" in TVB's "Legend of the Condor Heroes", reaching the top five. She appeared in numerous films and TV series but mostly in secondary roles. In 1990 she posed for a photo spread in Penthouse magazine and became widely known. She married Wu Chung-yee, an Indonesian Chinese, in 1996 and had two sons before retiring from the entertainment industry. In 2012 she was diagnosed with stage III stomach cancer and had her entire stomach removed. She briefly recovered but the cancer returned in 2014, and she passed away on 10 January 2015 at the age of 51.