Janis Chan

Janis Chan (Chinese: 陳貝兒; born 14 June 1979) is a Hong Kong television presenter, actor, and business executive. She is currently the Executive Director of the social enterprise Green Monday and a contract artist under TVB. Chan is best known for hosting the No Poverty Land (《無窮之路》) documentary series, for which she won the Best Host award at the TVB Anniversary Awards in 2021, 2022, and 2024. Chan is dedicated to promoting vegetarianism and environmentally friendly living. In April 2013, she formed a Hong Kong team to participate in the Arctic Marathon to encourage vegetarianism and environmental protection. The trip was widely reported by Apple Daily's "Dynamic News", and the "Arctic Run" program was produced for TVB. Canada, amid the wave of emigration from Hong Kong in the early 1990s. She later attended Simon Fraser University, where she majored in journalism and communication and minored in education.

Career In 2003, Chan was discovered by TVB executive Yu Wing-shan and joined Hong Kong Cable Television's newly launched Entertainment News Channel. She returned to Hong Kong to work as a news anchor and reporter, becoming one of the city's first generation of entertainment news presenters. Her early assignments included covering Michael Joseph Jackson events, the Academy Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and fashion weeks in Milan and New York City. She interviewed celebrities such as Takuya Kimura, Lee Byung-hun, and Ang Lee, earning her the nickname "Queen of Cable Entertainment News." In 2009, she joined BMA Entertainment as an artist and a sports marketing executive, managing Hong Kong First Division League football clubs. South China and TSW Pegasus, as well as managing the company's publishing business, promoting both sports and culture. During this time, Due to BMA affiliation with the Hong Kong Recording Industry Alliance (HKRIA) amid an ongoing copyright dispute, she stopped hosting on TVB. Subsequently, she became a guest host on the NOW 101 Channel program 'Action to Money' until she was appointed as the channel head of NOW Star Channel upon its launch. In 2017, she hosted the TVB program 'Faraway Brides', traveling to countries such as Germany, Denmark, Thailand, and Abu Dhabi. That year, she finalized her divorce.

In 2022, Chan won the "Best Female Host" award at the TVB Anniversary Awards 2021 and was selected as one of the "2021 Touching China " for her TVB program " Infinite Road ". The program was also selected by the expert review team of the General National Radio and Television Administration as one of the 20 "Outstanding Overseas Communication Works" of 2021. In 2024, Chen Bei'er won the "Best Female Host" award at the TVB Anniversary Awards 2024 for the third time. On March 30, 2022, Bonnie Chan was interviewed via video by the Greater Bay Area Channel of China News Service on the program Bay Area Youth Talk.

Filmography

Television Dramas

2018: Another Era – as Tsang Yi-ning 2020: Hong Kong Love Stories – as Lee Ting-kwan

Films

2022: Sunshine of my Life – as Miss Chan

Television Hosting

TVB

Radio Programs (as Guest)

Commercial Radio 903 25 October 2008: RTHK Radio 2 – Leave it for Later

Magazine Appearance

2009: Choice Monthly, Issue No. 397

Music Works Song

2022: Together Under the Lion Rock Against the Pandemic, performed with various artists

Books

"Entertainment is my news – Chen Bei'er" (January 7, 2007, Jia Publishing Co., Ltd., ISBN 9789628955275 ) "Free Life" (December 2009, Bomei Publishing House, ISBN 9789881874832 )

Awards and nominations