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Amy Cheng

b. 1968

Singaporean actress

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Born 1968. Amy Cheng is a Singaporean art director and actor.

Amy J. Cheng (born 1970 ) is a Singaporean actress and creative director of ACT 3 Theatrics. She is best known for her role as Karen Tay in the television series Growing Up and as Jacqueline Ling in the 2018 romantic comedy-drama Crazy Rich Asians.

Career Stage Cheng is a co-founder and creative director of Act 3 Theatrics. She has performed in live theatre shows through Act 3 including Footsteps in the Night, 41 Hours, and Confessions of the Three Unmarried Women. She has had other stage roles in Singapore Repertory Theatre's Forbidden City and The Good Citizen and Escape Productions' The Deap Blue Sea and Esplanade's Letters from Home. In 2006 she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Life! Theatre Awards for her role as the Banana Tree Spirit in the mandarin musical 10 Brothers.

In 2012, Cheng become Act 3 Theatrics' creative director.

Television From 1996 until 2001 Cheng was a regular cast member of the Singaporean television drama Growing Up (1996 - 2001) as Karen Tay, the wife of Andrew Seow's character, Gary Tay. In 2001 she was nominated for Best Actress at the Asian Television Awards for her role in Growing Up. She played Dr. Winnie Leong in the television series First Touch (2002 - 2003) She had a small role as Felicia Chin's mother in the television movie Hong Bao + Kisses.

Film In 2018 she appeared in the American romantic comedy-drama film Crazy Rich Asians as Jaqueline Ling.

Personal life In 2000, Cheng met Rama Chandran in a children’s production, Foot Steps In The Night.

Filmography

Theatre Year Title Role Notes 2006 10 Brothers

Television series

Film

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Who is Amy Cheng?

Singaporean actress

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Amy Cheng was born in 1968 in Singapore.

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Amy Cheng is an art director and actor.

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Amy Cheng

· Wikidata: Q60531524

· DBpedia: Amy Cheng

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