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Her Chinese father and Vietnamese mother left Vietname and settled in Montreal. She then went to Hong Kong, in her first trip away from home, to participate in the Miss Chinese International pageant in January , which she won despite not knowing a single Chinese word. Despite not speaking a word of Cantonese at the time, and acting experience that stretched only to an uncredited ten-second non-speaking role as a gum-chewing prostitute in Denys Arcand's Love And Human Remains , Christy headed off to Hong Kong to launch a career in acting. A role in The Bride With White Hair 2 brought her instant recognition, and she rapidly became one of Hong Kong cinema's biggest stars and female sex symbols. Christy Chung returns regularly to her native Montreal and hit headlines during the city's infamous Ice Storm when giving birth to her daughter Jasmine.