Candice Yu

Candice Yu (Yu On On; born Yu De Ying; 22 October 1959) is a Hong Kong film actress and occasional singer best known for her films with Shaw Brothers Studio of the 1970s and 1980s. She was the first wife of Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-fat. Film career Yu made her debut in film at the age of 16 in "Let's Rock" and was instantly signed by the Shaw Brothers Studio in 1976 after starring in the film Massage Girls with Chow Yun-fat, her future husband and in Forever and Ever alongside Alan Tang. Between 1977 and 1979, she starred in six of Chu Yuan's sword films, including Death Duel, The Sentimental Swordsman, Legend of the Bat, Murder Plot and two Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre films. In the late 1970s, Yu also began appearing on television, notably the Rediffusion TV series Reincarnated and her appearances as Princess Xiang Xiang in the martial arts series Book and Sword (書劍恩仇錄). In 1984 she portrayed a lesbian in the film Lust For Love of a Chinese Courtesan. In 1992, Yu had a cameo role in Swordsman 2, directed by Tsui Hark.