Josephine Shum Po Yee

Biography

Josephine Shum Po Yee is a Hong Kong television actress and host, known by her stage name 岑寶兒. She was born on September 6, 1978 in Hong Kong. She participated in the Miss Hong Kong Pageant in 2000, where she was one of 20 candidates and won an unofficial "Most Media-Friendly Award" chosen by journalists during an Australian location shoot, though she did not make it to the final 12. After the pageant, she gained public recognition when Tsang Chi Wai openly praised her. She joined TVB and appeared in numerous TV series and films, with her most notable role being Gui Zhi in the "Virtues of Harmony" series. She left TVB in April 2012 after 12 years and subsequently joined HKTV while hosting a supernatural program on Cable TV. She married her non-celebrity boyfriend in May 2014, gave birth to a daughter in March 2015, and then retired from the entertainment industry to focus on raising her child.