Gigi Fu

Biography

Fu Mingxian is a Chinese actress from Hong Kong, born in Hong Kong on 13 October 1970, with ancestral roots in Ningbo, Zhejiang. She is the daughter of actors Fu Qi and Shi Hui from Changcheng Film Studios. Due to her parents' political stance which led to them being listed by the Chinese government as "rebel artists", she was forced at the age of 14 to use another stage name, Sun Hui, when participating in the film "開心鬼放暑假" to avoid affecting the film's release. After that she continued her education and graduated from Diocesan Girls' School in 1989. She studied at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles, USA, then obtained a degree from the University of York in the UK in 1994 before returning to Hong Kong. She joined TVB television network and officially began her career in the entertainment industry. She married in 1999 to Ye Jianbo, chairman of Haiyu Group, then divorced in 2008. She currently serves as the president of the Hong Kong Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and also served as executive director of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals board in 2006-2007. In 2017, she fulfilled her dream of diving in the Red Sea after obtaining multiple diving certifications, and expressed extreme fear when a oceanic whitetip shark passed by her, which is among the aggressive species. She later obtained a cave diving certification.