Yung Siu Yee

Biography

Yung Siu Yee, born in 1919 with the original name Rong Jin Zhi, was from Zhongshan County in Guangdong Province. Her older sister, Yung Yuk Yi, was also a famous opera and film actress. Both sisters were skilled in dance and performed as actors in a song and dance troupe. Yung Siu Yee began her film career in 1941 with the film "Zi Xia Bei" (The Purple Cup). She was known for portraying spoiled young ladies or seductive women in most of her films. In 1941, she married actor-director Li Ching, and they had one son and two daughters. Yung Siu Yee passed away on March 17, 1974, at Queen Mary Hospital on Hong Kong Island due to leukemia, at the age of 55. Her funeral was held on March 19 at the Kowloon Funeral Home, and she was buried at the Catholic Cemetery in Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon.