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After complaining about the direction of the Cantopop industry and falling out with her then label, Black and White, Ip chose to retire from music in 1988 and went into semi-retirement, with occasional roles in movies.
After complaining about the direction of the Cantopop industry and falling out with her then label, Black and White, Ip chose to retire from music in 1988 and went into semi-retirement, with occasional roles in movies.
Her Cantopop albums were released by Universal Music Group and several local labels. A Hakka of Huiyang ancestry, she speaks Cantonese, Dapeng dialect, Mandarin and English. Deanie Ip is frequently referred to as Deanie Yip although her surname is officially romanized as Ip.
In the 1980s, Ip released five albums with a local producer.
She returned to the Cantopop scene in 2002 with an European Parliament, which, along with a live recording of her 2002 concert in Hong Kong, were both released by Universal Music Group.
Ip has been recognised on several occasions for supporting actress roles except for her role in A Simple Life, where she won Coppa Volpi for the Best Actress at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. Ip has won the Best Supporting Actress awards at the Hong Kong Film twice, for her roles in Dances with Dragon (11th Hong Kong Film, 1991), and in My Ain"t Suzy (5th Hong Kong Film, 1985). Ip also had three other nominations for Best Supporting Actress for Wrong Wedding Trail (4th Hong Kong Film, 1984), Spiritual Love (7th Hong Kong Film, 1987) and for Murder (13th Hong Kong Film, 1993). She has also won Best Supporting Actress at the 36th Golden Horse for Crying Heart. She won Coppa Volpi for best actress at the 68th Venice Film Festival in 2011 for A Simple Life. Hong Kong"s Secretary for Commerce & Economic Development Gregory So congratulated her for winning the award. Mr So said this award is not only an international recognition of Ms Ip"s outstanding achievement, but a testimony of the level of excellence of the Hong Kong film industry.
