Mimi Kung Che Yan

Biography

Mimi Kung Che Yan is a Hong Kong actress and television host, formerly known as Gong Shi Qian, with the nickname "公仔". She grew up in Hong Kong in the Wong Nai Chung Road area of Wan Chai as the only child of her family. Her father was an accounting department manager and her mother worked behind the scenes in a Cantonese opera section. She graduated from St. Paul's Catholic Primary School and New Method College. Before joining the TVB artist training course in 1984, she worked as a secretary at barrister Hu Hanching's law firm. She began her acting career with the TV drama "Qiu Jin". Her portrayal of Guanyin in the 1996 series "Journey to the West" was considered one of her most successful roles. She married twice: first to a construction businessman in 1990 (divorced 1991), then to actor Lam Wai in 1999, with whom she has a son and a daughter. She returned to TVB in 2018 and gained wider recognition in mainland China for her role as "Zheng Shi" in the 2017 drama "Nothing Gold Can Stay".