Fang Ying方盈

Fang Ying方盈 was born in Hong Kong on April 20, 1948. Her real name is Ni Fangning, her ancestral home is Guizhou. One of the "leading actresses" of Shaw Brothers in the 1960s, she has served as a TV host, film art director, costume designer, chairman of the Hong Kong Film Art Society, columnist, etc. Fang Ying lived a wandering childhood. When she was five years old, she returned to the mainland to live with her grandmother. She lived in Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing, and returned to Hong Kong when she was twelve years old. She is interested in music and literature (she has won the Hong Kong Inter-School Music Festival Piano Competition). Due to her poor family situation, she wanted to make money to supplement her income, so she applied for the "Southern Film Training Class" of "Shaw Brothers" and became the same as Li Jing, Zheng Peipei and Pan Yingzi. Second batch of students. In 1963, she signed a seven-year contract with "Shaw Bros." (and another three-year contract, totaling ten years). Fang Ying attracted attention for her collaboration with "Brother Liang" Ling Bo in "Seven Fairies", and the two of them successively starred in period dramas such as "A Romance of Two Phoenixes" and "The Romance of the West Chamber". In 1964, Taiwan Credit Information News held the "First China's Top Ten Movie Stars Election" event. More than one million people participated in voting. Fang Ying, who was only 16 years old, was selected with 370,000 votes, ranking seventh. . Later, she switched to making fashion and literary films, starring in films such as "Aunt Lan" and Qiong Yao's original "Cold Smoke" with Qiao Zhuang, Wang Yu, Yue Hua and others. She also went to Japan to shoot the Hong Kong-Japanese collaboration "Asian Secret Police" and other films. The action film "The Flying Girl" is set in a circus and has a wide range of possibilities. Fang Ying has a fresh and natural temperament and does not like to show off. She is very valued by Shaw Brothers. Since her debut, she has been the leading heroine in more than ten films she has officially participated in. She was a popular star of Shaw Brothers in the 1960s. In mid-1968, Fang Ying married Huang Xixiang, the two-year-old boss of "Kee Wah Bakery", and soon became pregnant and gave birth to a child. When the seven-year contract expired, she retired from the film industry. The two had a son and a daughter, but in 1978 Divorced. Fang Ying was invited to come back in 1976, serving as the host of Jiayi TV's "Movie Circle" program and starring in TV series. In 1978, "Jiayi" closed down, and Fang Ying ceased acting again. In 1999, she was invited to serve as a judge for the Golden Horse Awards. Fang Ying is also enthusiastic about the welfare and education of the industry, and was elected as the president of the "Hong Kong Film Arts Society" from 2007 to 2009. Unfortunately, Fang Ying died of cancer in a hospital in Hong Kong in January 2010 at the age of 62.