黎灼灼

简介

Li Zhuo Zhuo was a Hong Kong Cantonese film actress, originally named Li Xing Qiu, with ancestral roots in Guangdong province. She was born in 1905 in Hong Kong into a wealthy family and received a good education from an early age, becoming fluent in English and developing a love for music, painting, and dance. She was the niece of Li Min Wai, the father of Hong Kong cinema, the aunt of television actress Gigi Li, and the sister of television actress Lai Suen. She was one of the actresses known as the "Twelve Golden Hairpins" of Hong Kong cinema. In 1932 she travelled from Tianjin to Shanghai to visit her uncle Li Min Wai, where director Bu Wan Chang cast her in a film that made her an instant star and a famous actress in 1930s Chinese cinema. In the 1970s she worked as an actress for Shaw Brothers and RTV, appearing in the 1977 RTHK television drama "When We Were Young" playing a grandmother. She retired from acting in 1980 and passed away in 1990 at the age of 85.