Ip, Veronica

Veronica Ip was born on February 12, 1967 in a wealthy family. She graduated from the Christian school for girls 圣母 玫瑰 书院. Like many other actresses of her generation, she came to show business through a beauty contest - in this case, , in which Veronica participated in 1985, the first year the competition existed. Ip took only the third place (the first two took and , but at the same time she received two special awards: “The most beautiful girl” (最 健美小姐) and “The most temperamental girl” (最 有性格 小姐). For each award, an amount of 10,000 Hong Kong dollars was attached, Ip, in her own words, felt like she had hit the jackpot in the lottery. However, she ultimately gave the money to her mother, who borrowed Veronica funds to participate in the contest, and also acted as a trustee.

Under the terms of the contract, the winners of the competition automatically entered into contracts with the ATV channel. As Veronica recalled, filming in the series was extremely monotonous and routine. After four years of regular filming, the actress discovered that during this time she had gained some experience, but as she was, she remained an unknown actress to second-rate TV shows. Veronica decided to break into a big movie and, in order to attract attention, began to appear in erotic photo shoots for various magazines. Her plan worked and after a while she was invited to act in erotic films. The actress admitted that she could not offer her any other roles, except for “with a naked”, at that time.

The first film with Veronica’s participation was released in 1991 - it was the erotic melodrama “Take Me”. In the same 1991, “Hidden Desire” appeared (where the second major role was played by Japanese porn star Ren Murakami ) and “Pretty Woman” - also films of the third category. Ip willingly undressed on the screen, demonstrating representative forms, as for a Chinese woman, in addition, she very naturally kept on the screen, despite the complexity of the role and the quality of the film as a whole. “Take Me” and “Hidden Desire” have become very profitable tapes: the first of them collected more than 13 million Hong Kong dollars, which is simply unbelievable for a third-category film with a debutant in the title role (for comparison, the main hits in his field, “Untold Story ”And“ Sex and Zen ”, collected 15 and 18 million, respectively).

In 1992, despite the appearance in the erotic Cash for the Courier and Gigolo and the Whore 2, Veronica decided to change the vector of development: she said that she stopped shooting in erotica, released her debut album and began her career as the leading midnight program on TVB. In the same 1992, Taiwanese drama “Three Summers” appeared, where Ip played with Tony Leung, “Rose” (with Maggie Chun) and “Call Girls 1992”, where, despite the theme of prostitution, there was practically no exposure .

In Veronica, they saw a talented actress, and the next year, 1993, became the year of her triumph. In addition to the fact that nine films with her participation saw the light, of which only in “Three Days of a Blind Girl” she had to lose her clothes (while the actress did not bare her bust), but also in which films she starred in. In the "New Year" parody "Shooting Eagles Heroes" Ip appeared in the company of Hong Kong stars of the first magnitude. No less stellar was the composition of the comedy "Rose, Rose, I love you." The gangster thriller “Love Among the Triads” did not become a big box office hit, but received good reviews from critics, and Veronica was nominated for the Hong Kong film award as the best supporting actress for her role. In the same year, “Roof with a View” appeared - for this film Veronika was nominated for a Hong Kong film award in the nomination “Best Actress” (however, she did not win either one or the other).

The following year brought Veronica not many good roles - with the exception of Stanley Kwan ’s drama “Red Rose, White Rose”, in which Ip played with Joan Chen , these were pretty passable films. Great hopes were pinned on “Latin skirmish”, the Hong Kong response to “ Musician ” and “ Desperate ”, but they did not materialize: the film collected very mixed reviews and barely scraped 5 million at the box office. Perhaps this was also the reason that in 1995 Veronica starred in only two films (“Night Hour” and “Another Mother”, moreover, both are horror films), and in 1996, after filming in three more unsuccessful paintings, decided to leave the cinema.

However, the main factor that influenced her decision was her marriage. Veronica married an American businessman of Chinese descent and, in the end, moved with him to America, where her husband owned a chain of grocery supermarkets. The couple has a daughter and two sons.

TV shows in soft blue color, erotic films in pink.

• Veronica Yip at hkmdb.com
• https://www.bilibili.com/video/av11413705/