Chrissie Chau Sau-na

Biography

Chrissie Chau Sau-na is a Hong Kong actress and model, born on May 22, 1985, in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China, of Chaoshan heritage. She moved with her family to Hong Kong at the age of ten and settled in Shek Kip Mei. She was educated at St. Clare's College in Mo Sing Ling and graduated from St. Margaret's Girls' College. She worked in retail before being scouted by a modeling agency. She participated in the anime model competition at the Hong Kong Anime Festival in 2005 and won second place. She began her acting career with minor roles in films such as "Mahjong Heroes" and "The New Cops 3". Early in her career, she was dubbed the "copy version" of famous model Gaile Lai. In 2009, she signed with GME and released her first photo book "Kissy Chrissie" which sold nearly 30,000 copies. She participated as a runway model in the Tokyo Girls Collection in Japan in 2009. She gained widespread fame in mainland China after starring in Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" in 2013, which grossed over $215 million worldwide. She received two nominations for Best Actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards, first in 2018 for "29+1" and again in 2022 for "Moda di Genova".