Yip Yuk Ping

Biography

Yip Yuk Ping is a Hong Kong actress of Shantou, Guangdong origin, born in 1962 in Chaozhou City. She graduated in 1981 from the RTV artist training program and officially began her acting career. She worked as an actress for Asia Television (RTV/ATV) from 1982 to 1991, appearing in many martial arts dramas, most notably as "Drunken Girl" in "Drunken Fist King Wújì" and in "The Thirteen Dynasties of the Qing." In 1983 she won the Best Newcomer Award at the ATV anniversary gala. In the early 1990s she moved to TVB, then married at the end of 1993 and retired from acting, gradually stepping away from the entertainment industry from 1995 onward to work in insurance. In 2012 she appeared on the program "ATV's 100 People," sharing memories of her days as a martial arts actress. She studied at Cuihua English College, Causeway Bay Branch. She married Yang Deshi in 1993 and had a son and a daughter before the couple later divorced.