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Françoise Yip

Françoise Yip

Birthday: 1972-09-04 | Place of Birth: North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Françoise Fong-Wa Yip ( born September 4, 1972) is a Canadian actress. Her best-known roles are the redeemable bad girls in Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx and Jet Li's Black Mask. The critical and financial success of Rumble in the Bronx (and its subsequent number-one box-office bow in the United States) made Yip an instant success and garnered her two Hong Kong Film Award nominations. She continued to do movies and star in TV, but her roles were less known or temporary. The characters she plays often get killed or serve as a background character. Yip appeared in the television series Andromeda as two different characters. Her first character was arrested, and her final character was murdered. She did two movies with Jet Li, the first as a lead romantic interest in Black Mask and the second in Romeo Must Die, but this time she played a Chinese gangster motorcycle assassin killed by Jet Li and Aaliyah. An unfortunate aspect of her career is that none of the TV shows she starred in lasted beyond a full season, and if she did have a starring role in a movie it was a straight-to-video/DVD film. Her most recent appearance was in the new Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem movie, and she guest-starred in the Canadian TV show Blood Ties. Description above from the Wikipedia article Françoise Fong-Wa Yip, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2020
A Little Christmas Charm

as    Sheyla Green

2018
2010
The King of Fighters

as    Chizuru Kagura

2005
The Deal

as    Janice Long

2001
Witness to a Kill

as    Kirsten Lee

2001
Robocop: Prime Directives

as    Lexx Icon

2001
Cabin Pressure

as    Tammy

1999
Black Mask

as    Yeuk Laan

1996
Rumble in the Bronx

as    Nancy