Kathy Chau Hoi Mei

Kathy Chau Hoi Mei was born on December 6, 1966. She is a Manchu. Her surname is Guarjia, and her Manchu name is Martata. She made her debut after losing the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant in 1985. She was a popular actress on the front line of TVB from the 1980s to the 1990s. She then settled in Beijing and developed in mainland China, owning her own studio. On December 12, 2023, the studio announced that Zhou Haimei passed away due to ineffective treatment of illness on December 11 at the age of 57. Chow Hoi-mei is a native of Hong Kong. She grew up in the Islands District when she was a child, and later grew up in Shek Lei Estate, Kwai Chung and Yau Oi Estate, Tuen Mun. She studied at Lai Chak Tam Shiu Hong Memorial School and graduated from Shunde Friendship Association Tam Boyu Secondary School. Zhou Haimei's ancestors were Manchus with a white flag in Manchuria. They served as fifth-rank officials in Guangzhou and were in charge of provincial affairs in Guangdong during the Qing Dynasty. When she was young, she went to her ancestral home in Zhoujia Village, Guangdong. The whole village was still surnamed Zhou and was inhabited by Manchus. Because Zhou Haimei was a Manchu aristocrat, her father had been very strict with her since she was a child. She kept Manchu rules in both her studies and her lifestyle. She and the famous actors Guan Zhilin and Guan Baohui are both descendants of Guarjia, one of the eight major surnames in the Qing Dynasty. In 1985, Zhou Haimei started her acting career after her father signed up for TVB's Miss Hong Kong Pageant. Although she failed to advance to the finals, she was invited by TVB and auditioned to enter the first artist training class of TVB's artist training class. Became an artist contracted by TVB. As soon as he debuted, he participated in the Taiwanese celebration drama "The Yang Family General" in the same year. In the mid-to-late 1980s, Zhou Haimei participated in many drama performances, among which the more familiar ones include "Rogue Tycoon" and "The Journey of Life". Until her performance in "Intolerance" became even more popular, she quickly became a popular actress on TVB. . In the early 1990s, she continued to star in many major productions, including "Smiling Proudly Tomorrow", "No Regrets in This Life", "The Last Emperor" and "The Raging Sword Roaring Sands", among which "The Last Emperor" made her famous in Taiwan. Notability rises. In 1994, Zhou Haimei became famous in Taiwan and mainland China with her role as Zhou Zhiruo in the Taiwan Television Company's TV series "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword". This role has also become one of the most representative roles in her acting career. In the play, Zhou Zhiruo, played by Zhou Haimei, is as if Zhou Zhiruo has come out of the book alive, no matter in terms of external appearance and attire, facial expressions and eyes, personality and behavior, and inner emotional drama. Transcendent acting achievements. And because Zhou Haimei's perfect performance interpreted the role of Zhou Zhiruo, which is recognized as extremely difficult to perform due to the huge differences in personality and complex psychological state, this drama established her unshakable acting status in the Chinese entertainment industry. Zhou Haimei herself also received a copy of the novel "The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Slayer" signed by Jin Yong as a gift from Jin Yong after the show was broadcast. In 1995, Zhou Haimei participated in the Taiwanese drama "This Life", produced and starred by the original cast of "The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon", and TVB's "Love in the Earth". Zhou Haimei once said that one of her favorite roles in her acting career is Liu Yacai in "The Land of Love" because the role requires her to play from the age of 18 to 80, giving her room to perform, and she also likes the script of the play. . In the same year, Zhou Haimei began to enter the music scene and released her first Mandarin album "Sunrise Love" in 1995. Since 1996, Zhou Haimei has gone to Japan to develop and take large-scale underwear photos. In 1997, the J-Phone mobile phone series advertisement filmed with Japanese actor Nagase Masatoshi attracted attention and received extensive personal reports in many Japanese media, including Nikkan Sports, Chinese Dragon News, and FLASH magazine. In 1997, Zhou Haimei played the heroine, the female ghost Xiao Furong, in "The Big Bang", and her popularity rose again. With this drama, she became one of the favorites for the Best Actress in the 1997 Thousand Stars Festival (she made it to the top seven) In the end, Zhou Haimei and the male lead Lin Jiadong won the "Best Touching Romance Award" for this drama. The drama even became the 1997 TV drama ratings champion and was one of the dark horses of the year. In the same year, the second Mandarin album "Infatuated with You" was released. In 1998, Zhou Haimei completed her contract with TVB after filming "The Love of Heaven and Earth"; in the same year, she joined Asia Television and starred in "Across the World", "Cinema Tycoon" and "Across the World". Among them, "Across the World" broke the inertia of ratings, bringing Hong Kong's prime-time ratings close to those of TVB Jade. She left Asia Television at the end of 2002, and then shifted her focus to development in mainland China. In 2008, Zhou Haimei returned to TVB as a foreign aid to film the third series of "Starting to the World", and went to Morocco, Africa for the first time; she set foot in the Sahara Desert, and filmed "School Police Sniper" and "Cai E and Xiao Fengxian" in the same year, once again In front of the live TV screen. In 2012, she returned to TVB as a foreign aid to film the TV series "Sniper". She played the role of the tragic character Wang Ruoling and once again served as the leading actress. For this drama, she was nominated for the "Best of the Year" at the 2013 Thousand Stars Awards Ceremony. Leading Actress" and rarely attends award ceremonies. In 2014, she renewed her contract with TVB and ended the 6-year guest-host relationship with TVB. In December 2014, "The Legend of Wu Mei Niang" in which Zhou Haimei participated was broadcast on major TV stations in mainland China. Her role as Concubine Yang Shu in the drama was well received and her popularity rose again. Her acting skills have also been accepted by mainland audiences, and her acting skills are undoubtedly well received. Her role in this drama attracted the attention and uproar of many netizens because of her "career line". Netizens said that "the goddess of the past is still well-maintained" and was dubbed the "ageless goddess" by the media. In 2015, Zhou Haimei Studio was established, and said that in the future, it will still focus on the mainland market, and there is little chance of returning to TVB to film dramas, and will focus on behind-the-scenes production, but is still interested in acting and will continue to participate in front of the screen. show. In November 2017, the TVB talk show "Best Partner" hosted by Li Zhishan invited Lin Jiadong and Zhou Haimei, the protagonists of the epic "human-ghost love" story in "The Big Bang" to share, among which Zhou Haimei shared a number of " "Breaking a ghost" experience. In October 2018, she was invited to attend the 53rd Taiwan Television Golden Bell Awards Ceremony, partnering with Zhang Xuanrui as the award presenter. In 2019, Zhou Haimei played the role of Miejue Shitai in the new version of "Eternal Dragon Sword" and was named "The Most Beautiful Miejie Shitai". Because 25 years ago she played Zhou Zhiruo in Ma Jingtao's version of "The Legend of Heaven and Sword of the Dragon", but now she has transformed into Zhou Zhiruo's master, Miejie Shitai, so she is talked about by netizens.She once revealed that she initially cast the role of Master Miu three times, but in the end she was moved by the crew's sincerity. In addition, Zhou Haimei often sings Ma Jingtao's version of the ending song "Love the country more than the beauty" in the show. In the same year, because she played the role of the villain Tu Yao (the queen of heaven) in "Sweet Honey as Ashes as Frost", she was attacked by some mainland Chinese netizens on Weibo and announced that she would no longer update Weibo. After that, she mainly shared her current situation on other social platforms such as Toutiao. In 1986, Zhou Haimei and Lui Liangwei, who had just debuted at that time, gradually fell in love and started dating after cooperating in the filming of the wireless TV series "Little Island Storm". In 1988, Zhou Haimei and Lu Liangwei secretly registered their marriage in Las Vegas, USA, but filed for divorce after only one year of marriage. In 1990, there were rumors of an affair between Zhou Haimei and Liming while filming the wireless TV series "Back to When I Was Married", but nothing happened afterwards; December 11, the date of Zhou Haimei's death, happened to be Liming's birthday. In 1994, Zhou Zengchuan dated Hong Kong swimming coach and actor Lam Weiliang; Lam later became a monk in 2009. In 1997, it was also reported that Zhou had intervened in the marriage of Japanese actor Masatoshi Nagase, whom she met while filming a phone commercial. Zhou was even accused of being the reason for the divorce between him and Kyoko Koizumi. In 1998, it was reported that Chow was pursued by Dickson Group executive director Ng Shi Wing, and the latter two were engaged in 1999. In 2000, it was reported that Zhou was dating Asia Television assistant director Zhou Jiawen and even lived together for a time. The latter two got married in 2002. In 2010, Zhou Haimei was interviewed by the program "Very Quiet Distance" and mentioned that she had moved to Beijing as early as 2004 and talked about her relationship with her architect boyfriend. However, she said that she had no plans to have children yet and decided not to get married or have children and to enjoy her freedom and pleasure. In 2009, it was reported that Zhou was in love with mainland Chinese singer Li Guifu. Later, during an interview in Taipei in 2015, Zhou Haimei announced that she had ended her 12-year relationship with her boyfriend. She has lived in mainland China for a long time and settled in Houshayu Villa in Shunyi District, Beijing. During the COVID-19 epidemic, on April 28, 2021, she, who lives in Beijing, received the first shot of the domestic Beijing Biotech COVID-19 vaccine using inactivated virus technology, the second shot on May 17, and the third shot on December 11. On December 22, 2022, she received the fourth dose of Beijing Wantai’s nasal spray COVID-19 vaccine. Zhou Haimei was rumored to have suffered from lupus erythematosus several times during her lifetime and after her death. In 2006, Christine Yang publicly mentioned the matter on her blog, which aroused criticism. Christine Yang later concealed the name of the person involved and apologized. After the news of her death was announced, Zhou Haimei's artist friend and the then president of the Hong Kong Film Workers Federation, Tian Qiwen, also pointed out that Zhou Haimei had actually been suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus during her lifetime, which often affected her immunity. Zhou Haimei denied suffering from lupus erythematosus during her lifetime, saying she had only had unexplained low platelets since childhood. On November 24, 2023, Zhou Haimei attended the "Kail International Racing Pigeon Loft 2023 Autumn Racing Grand Prix Award Ceremony" held in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, and sang the 1989 wireless TV series "Justice" in which she had participated. "No Mercy" theme song "What I Want in Life" was Zhou Haimei's last public appearance before her death. On December 11, 2023, Zhou Haimei died in Beijing due to ineffective treatment at the age of 57.