Anita Chui (Chinese: 崔碧珈, born 27 May 1988) is a Hong Kong female actress and singer.
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Anita Chui | |
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崔碧珈 | |
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Born | (1988-05-27) 27 May 1988 (age 34) Hong Kong |
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Years active | 2014–present |
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Notable work | Special Female Force |
Height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) |
Awards | CANNES World Bloggers Awards 2019 — Best Asian Actress Account |
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Instruments | Vocal, piano |
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Chui was born and raised in a middle-class family in Hong Kong. Her father works in financial industry. He cultivated Chui's interest in mathematics from her young age. Her mother is a housewife, her sister is a psychiatric nurse, her younger brother is a financial PR manager and her brother-in-law is a fireman. Chui's parent divorced when she was around 18.
Chui achieved excellent academic record since she was a child. She studied at the York International Kindergarten and York English Primary School in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. Then, her secondary school was assigned to the Pentecostal School in Ho Man Tin, Hong Kong.
Chui was active in various sports and performing arts in school. She was one of the table tennis players in the school team at the York English Primary School. During her life at secondary school, she has being trusted by the Pentecostal School and she was one of the few students to represent the school in English poetry competition individually at the Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival and she's a soprano at the school choir as well as a volleyball school team player for four consecutive years.
Other than at the formal school, she began to learn piano at the age of three and she received the grade 8 qualification by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) when she was 13. Also, she began to study in Kumon Method at the age of five, focusing on English and mathematics.
As Chui's grandmother lived in UK, after she completed her secondary school, her parents sent her to UK for further study. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Accounting and Marketing from the University of Central Lancashire. She then studied a two years program of master's degree in business administration at the University of Sheffield. At the university, Chui participated in a number of drama and dance performances in the UK, she was a cheerleader of the University of Sheffield, representing her school in several competitions across 120 universities in the UK.
In January 2012, Chui, 23, during her second year of master's degree, she met Paco Wong, the famous artist manager of Sun Entertainment Culture Ltd, during her term-break in Hong Kong. She decided to abandon the British Master's degree and stayed in Hong Kong to develop her career with signing a five-years actress contract. At the same year, Sun Entertainment Culture Ltd arranged a few tutors to advance her acting skills, including Jim Chim Sui-Man and Kearen Pang. Also, she has been starting to participate in a few movies with a speaking role.
In February 2014, she was cast by film director Wilson Chin Kwok-Wai and earned her very first lead role in the movie, Female Special Force, the role name is Ling Ling. She was playing a clumsy but sexy policewoman in the film and required her a lot of stunt trainings. The film was filmed in Malaysia in April 2014 until July 2014 and was released in the summer of 2016 in Asia.
In 2016, Chui has launched her first photo book Sweat Anita, which was sold in book stores and convenience stores in Hong Kong, Macau and Malaysia as well as online platforms. The photo book was shot in Hong Kong and Macau by Ronald Lam and took seven days to complete it.
During the years 2012 to 2017, she participated in over 20 local Hong Kong films. In January 2017, she discussed with Paco Wong that she wanted to take further study about film production in UK, so they didn't renew the acting contract after five years of working relationship with both good understanding.
In 2017, Chui studied in acting and film production at the London Met Film School, one of the top film school in UK, for one-year program. At the same time, she formed a company Golden Shadow Entertainment Ltd, and recruited her own team to manage her artistic career.
On the 9 May 2018, she was invited by Sasha Waseem, the journalist of the international Fashion TV channel, to attend the red carpet of the movie “Sorry Angel” screening at the 71st Cannes Film Festival along with an Italian actress Patricia Gloria Contreras, by wearing a gown from Christophe Guillarme, a popular French fashion designer. At Cannes, she met Charles Guerin Surville, a French director with an Italian education background, and she decided to co-produce a French-Italian feature film with him, the film is called “Follia”. This is Chui's very first producing film project and also acting a role in it.
From May 2018 to January 2019, the pre-production of the film “Follia” took place in Paris, she traveled back and forth between Paris and Hong Kong to produce the film during the year.
In January 2019, the French- Italian feature film “Follia” started to shoot in Sicily Italy and Paris for three months. The main casts are Manal Issa (French actress), Stefano Cassetti (Italian actor), Nicola Nocella (Italian actor), Daniil Vorobyov (Russian actor), and Chui.
In May 2019, the film “Follia” finished the whole shooting. Chui was invited by Caroline Scheufele, co-president of Chopard, the Swiss-based luxury watches and jewellery manufacturer, to attend the red carpet of the closing ceremony at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. During the time in Europe, Anita was working on writing her second book Anita's Keto Diet, which was themed in ketogenic diet, and she finished writing in 3 months. Then, she went to Tokyo, Japan to do photo shooting for the book and it took seven days to complete the shoot. Chui's Keto Book was officially launched in July 2019 in Hong Kong, along with publishing in several countries in Asia, e.g. Macau, Malaysia and Singapore etc., as well as online book stores platform.
From December 2019 to March 2020, Chui went to Los Angeles, US, to do casting for a Hollywood blockbuster action movie and she got a supporting role. So, she began to receive professional movie stunt training by Tim Storms in Los Angeles. Until March 2020, LA and HK announced it will be locked down soon, the action film stopped the entire training and decided to postpone the production. By the time, she went back to Hong Kong.
In 2021, Bizhan Tong, a British- Chinese film producer and director, cast Chui in the film called “Lockdown”. The entire film was filmed separately in US, UK, Italy and Hong Kong. Her acting part was filmed at indoor studio of ATV in Hong Kong.
During the years of 2020 to 2022, due to the restrictions of COVID, there were less film projects. Chui spent time on taking vocal training with professional tutors in Hong Kong, such as Christine Samson, Clayton Cheung and Jessica Lam, and also took pop piano lessons with John Weiffenbach at the New Wave Music and dance classes at the Ones To Watch Dance Company. Besides music, she has been working on her British and American accent with a Hollywood acting coach, Tara Chiusano, by zoom lessons.
In January 2022, Chui signed a ten-year artist management contract with Honger Music Venture Ltd at its 15th anniversary in Hong Kong, her manager is Audrey Winsome Tang Wai Sze. She began to do recording for her debut song and started her career in singing along with acting. Her debut song《Get It Right》has been officially released on most of the online music platform and radio in Asia, e.g. ITunes, KKBox, Spotify, JOOX and MOOV etc., on the 14th June 2022, by making a grand announcement at the press conference in Kowloon Shangri-La hotel ballroom, Hong Kong.