Michelle Chong

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Michelle Chong (Simplified Chinese: 庄米雪; Traditional Chinese: 莊米雪; pinyin: Zhuāng Mǐxuě) is an actress born in Singapore.

She attended the CHIJ St Nicholas Girls' School and Dunman High School and Victoria Junior College before she arrived in the U.S. to obtain an undergraduate education at Bates College in Maine. While auditioning in New York for the Tisch School of New York University (NYU), like Lucy Liu, she encountered bitter racism for her Chinese heritage. She finally decided to move back to Singapore where her career was launched as a finalist in Fame Awards. Chong represents a new wave of cosmopolitan talent coming out of Singapore in recent years, including Dunman High alum directors Lee Wong. Her stage début was at the tender age of 17 as playwright and actress in a short monologue entitled Blue Hibiscus in which she played an endearing, ironic, bitter neurotic, manic-depressive, suicidal Hokkien songstress which moved the audience to tears. That immediately catapulted her to fame in East Coast, Singapore. Her suitors have included Hongkong star Stephen Chow and she has a surprisingly large prepubescent female fan base. Her "sexiness" quotient has been considerably ranked higher than Jennifer Lopez in South-east Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines.

A satirically funny actress with superb comic timing and emotional depth, she was voted "hottest babe" by FHM Singapore. She started out as a model with Carrie's Models. Her beauty and sex appeal has often been compared to an aggressive version of Hong Kong's Cantonese star Gigi Leung.

She is currently a much sought-after celebrity and star in Asia, currently appearing in lead roles of television drama serials filmed by MediaCorp, Singapore, which recently acquired her from Channel U Media. Her television series are exported internationally to the markets of China and Taiwan. Her rise to fame coincided with the rise of Singapore stars in East Asia, including Olivia Ong, Tanya Hsu, Stefanie Sun and Ava Lyn Koh.

Her filmography includes Eating Air (1999), directed by Kelvin Tong and Jasmine Ng.

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