Shirley Pang Mei-sheung

Biography

Shirley Pang Mei-sheung is a Hong Kong actress born in Hong Kong in 1933. At the age of eight, when the Japanese army attacked Hong Kong, her family was forced to move to Shenzhen where they lived in a hut, then returned to Hong Kong. Later, the family went back to mainland China again as her father needed to find work. The family settled in Zhongshan, where Pang spent her adolescence and participated in cultural activities. She tried to join the military art troupe but was unable to due to being born in Hong Kong, though she continued performing with the troupe until she married and had children. In the 1980s, she moved with her husband to Shenzhen and switched to human resources work, occasionally participating in amateur singing performances. After retiring in her fifties, she returned to settle in Hong Kong while her family remained in mainland China. She was discovered by a talent scout on the street and invited to shoot an advertisement, her first being a sesame cookie advertisement. She later participated in filming movies and TV series, working for many years as a contract actor at TVB, playing various roles most of which were uncredited. In the 2010s, she also participated in film dubbing, such as the mermaid teacher in The Mermaid.