Karen Mok

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Karen Mok

Karen Mok at 2007 Taipei IT Month
Chinese name 莫文蔚
Pinyin mo4 wen2 wei4 (Mandarin)
Jyutping mok6 man4 wai3 (Cantonese)
Birth name Karen Joy Morris
Origin Hong Kong
Born June 2, 1970 (1970-06-02) (age 38)
Hong Kong
Instrument(s) Piano, Oboe, Gu Zheng
Label(s) Sony BMG Music Entertainment
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Mok.

Karen Joy Morris, or Karen Mok Man-Wai, or Mò Wénwèi is a Hong Kong-based actress and singer. Mok attended Diocesan Girls' School, Hong Kong (from primary to secondary) before attending United World College of the Adriatic near Trieste, Italy, and majored in Italian literature when studying in the University of London. She is the sister of the writer and producer Trevor Morris and the descendant of Alfred Morris, the first principal of King's College, Hong Kong. Mok speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian, French.[1] She is Eurasian as her mother is quarter-Persian, quarter-German on her father's side, half-Chinese from her mother's; father is half-Welsh on his father's side, half-Chinese from his mother's.[2][3]

Mok is often credited as Karen Mok in Chinese movies, but as Karen Joy Morris (her birth name) in Hollywood movies. She supplied the voice of Princess Kida for the Cantonese dub of Disney's Atlantis (2001). Mok performed in the international tour of the hit Broadway musical "RENT" as Mimi during the Hong Kong stops in December 2005.

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[edit] Filmography

Years Movie
2008 Lost Indulgence
2007 Mr. Cinema
2006 The Heavenly Kings (cameo)
2005 Wait 'Til You're Older
DragonBlade (voice for animated film)
2004 Around the World in 80 Days (USA)
(credited as Karen Joy Morris)
Enter the Phoenix
2003 The Twins Effect
2002 So Close
The Irresistible Piggies
Haunted Office
2001 La Brassiere
Shaolin Soccer
Goodbye, Mr. Cool
All the Way
2000 The Roaring Wheels
The Teacher Without
Dragon Heat
1999 Tempting Heart
The King of Comedy
1997 Task Force
Lawyer Lawyer
First Love: The Litter on the Breeze
Young and Dangerous 4
1996 God of Cookery
Viva Erotica
Black Mask
Best of the Best
Kitchen
Four Faces of Eve
Young & Dangerous III
Sexy and Dangerous
Those Were the Days
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1995 Fallen Angels
Out of the Dark
Heaven Can't Wait
A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella
A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box
1994 Family Affair

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Album Title Language Year of Release
1st Karen Cantonese 1993
2nd Karen Mok In Totality Cantonese 1996
3rd To Be Chinese 1997
4th I Say Chinese 1998
5th 就是莫文蔚 Chinese 1999
6th You Can Chinese 1999
Karen More (Compilation Albums) Chinese 2000
7th Karen Mok on the Twelfth Floor Chinese 2000
8th Golden Flower Cantonese 2001
9th [i] Chinese 2002
10th X Chinese 2003
11th Without You Chinese 2006
12th L!VE is Karen Mok Chinese 2007

[edit] EPs

No. Title Language Year of Release
1st Love Yourself Chinese 1997
2nd Silently English 1998
3rd Back Cantonese 1999
4th Live Show Chinese 1999
5th Karen Mok Cantonese 2000
6th Live Again Cantonese 2000

[edit] Movie Soundtracks

No. Title Year of Release
1st I Love You 1998
2nd Flowers of Shanghai 1998
3rd King of Comedy 1999
4th So Close 2002

[edit] Awards

Years Awards
1995
1996
2000
2002
  • 14Th Golden Melody Awards, Taiwan: Won The Best Female Singer
2006

[edit] References

  1. ^ GiantRobot profile and interview
  2. ^ TIMEasia Karen Mok: 'My Best is Yet to Come' 3/13/2000
  3. ^ Beech, Hannah (April 23, 2001) "Eurasian invasion", Time Asia.

[edit] External links