Background
Veronica Yip was born in Hong Kong and started her career in participating in the 1985 Mission Asia Pageant and received the 2nd runner-up award.
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Veronica Yip
Edit Profile叶玉卿, 葉玉卿
Career
Film career
Her career breakthrough was when she starred in adult films which previously were considered taboo for mainstream actresses in the Hong Kong market. Yip has starred in a total of three of these Category III films: Take Maine (1991), Pretty Woman (1992) and Hidden Desire (1992). All three films were regarded as commercial successes and paved the way for mainstream actresses, such as Loletta Lee and Irene Wan to act in such films.
Aside from these films, Yip has also starred in many films critically acclaimed Chinese movies, including Jeffrey Lau"s The Eagle Shooting Heroes and Stanley Kwan"s Red Rose, White Rose (1994).
Yips ability to escape the soft porn market paving the way for actresses such as Shu Qi and Pauline Chan to do the same. Musical career
In 1998, Yip invested a large sum in her brother"s project of building a Disneyland in Hong Kong.
However, the project was scrapped along with the budget causing a fallout between the two. After marrying Wu in 1996, Yip retired from entertainment and moved to the United States where Wu runs the Hong Kong Supermarket chain.
They also have substantial investments in United International Bank, a business jet trading company, and various business-use real estate projects.
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United States