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简介

Ivy Ling Po, born Huang Yu-chun in Swatow, Guangdong, was sold as a child to a family in Xiamen, Fujian, where she was renamed Chun Hai-tong. She fled to Hong Kong with her adoptive mother in 1949. She began her career in the 1950s starring in Amoy-dialect films and later moved to Cantonese and Huangmei-dialect films with Shaw Brothers in the 1960s. She achieved international fame for her cross-gender role in "The Love Eterne" (1963), making her a superstar in Taiwan and Hong Kong. She won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress for "My Love, My Sin" (1967) and the Asia-Pacific Film Festival Best Actress for "Lady General Hua Mulan" (1964). Her career was marked by personal struggles with her adoptive mother's attempts to control her professional and personal life, but she ultimately freed herself and built a lasting artistic legacy.