Actor: Maggie Cheung

Maggie Cheung won Best Actress at Cannes for Clean, the first Asian performer to do so, and has worked extensively with Wong Kar-wai across several films.

In the Mood for Love is the achievement, playing a woman in a relationship conducted almost entirely through restraint and cheongsam dresses, and she wears a different one in nearly every scene. Police Story and Hero fill out the commercial work. She has largely stopped acting.

In the Mood for Love (2000) film posterMaggie Cheung

In the Mood for Love (2000)

Wong Kar-wai's 2000 1960s Hong Kong romance. In the Mood for Love is Wong Kar-wai's 2000 Hong Kong romantic drama depicting the unconsummated relationship between Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen, neighbors in 1962 Hong Kong who discover their respective spouses…

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