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Biography

Chen Shaoxia is a Chinese film and television actress from Hong Kong. She was born on September 9, 1970, in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, and spent her early years with her family between Huizhou and Guangzhou before moving to Hong Kong with her parents at age six. Her parents divorced when she was in third grade, and she grew up with her brother under her mother's care. She was discovered by the crew of the film "My Father's Son" produced by Sylvia Chang in 1992 when she was a seventeen-year-old student, playing the young lead role and receiving a Hong Kong Film Award nomination for Best New Performer. She later joined Hong Kong Television and delivered several notable television roles such as Ling Shan in "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" and Shuang'er in "The Deer and the Cauldron" and Yin Li in "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber". She retired from acting in 2000 after marrying an Australian-Chinese businessman, with whom she had two daughters, but returned after her ex-husband's bankruptcy and death in 2012. She married wealthy businessman Li Wenhui in 2016 and gave birth to a daughter in 2019. Chen Shaoxia is regarded as one of the most prominent actresses in Hong Kong during the 1990s and was considered the most promising actress of her time.