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简介

Leung Bo-chu is a Hong Kong Cantonese opera actress and film actress, born in 1948 in Guangzhou with ancestral roots in Guangdong province. She is one of the daughters of renowned Cantonese opera master Leung Hing-bor. She attended school for only four years before dedicating herself to studying traditional opera arts. In 1957, she formed the "Ma Bau Troupe" with Chan Po-chu, Chan Ho-kau, her father Leung Hing-bor, and Chan Fei-nong to perform Cantonese opera. She also studied Beijing Opera and Northern-style martial arts under the tutelage of Fen Juhua. She began her film career as a child actress, appearing in films such as "The Suffering Girl Jiang Haiyan" and "Our Children." As an adult, she appeared in the film "Nyonya Romance." Later, she partnered with male lead opera performer Yam Gim-sheng in Cantonese opera performances and frequently toured Southeast Asia. She moved to the United States at age 21 and married, but divorced at 26, remaining in America. In the late 1970s, she returned to Hong Kong several times to visit her ailing father, and after his death in 1981, she avoided returning for seven years. In 2003, she returned to live permanently in Hong Kong to care for her mother, Kuo Wen-juan.