Ada Choi

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title: "Ada Choi" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["chaoshanese-people", "1973-births", "living-people", "hong-kong-protestants", "hong-kong-expatriates-in-china", "hong-kong-film-actresses", "hong-kong-people-of-vietnamese-descent", "hong-kong-television-actresses", "tvb-veteran-actors", "20th-century-hong-kong-actresses", "21st-century-hong-kong-actresses"] description: "Hong Kong actress (born 1973)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Choi" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Hong Kong actress (born 1973) ::

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Field	Value
name	Ada Choi
image	Ada Choi-201904.png
caption	Choi in 2019
birth_date
birth_place	Hong Kong
spouse
children	3
awards
module	{{Infobox Chinese
child	yes
c	蔡少芬
p	Cài Shàofēn
j	Coi3 Siu2-fan1
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| name = Ada Choi | image = Ada Choi-201904.png | alt = | caption = Choi in 2019 | birth_date = | birth_place = Hong Kong | spouse = | children = 3 | awards = | module = {{Infobox Chinese | child=yes | c = 蔡少芬 | p = Cài Shàofēn | j = Coi3 Siu2-fan1 Ada Choi Siu-fan (; born 17 September 1973) is a Hong Kong actress. She gained recognition with films, such as Hail the Judge (1994) and A Chinese Odyssey Part Two - Cinderella (1995), and rose to prominence with TVB dramas, such as Healing Hands (1998–2000) and Where the Legend Begins (2002). She shifted her career to mainland China in the 2010s, where she found success with Empresses in the Palace (2012).

Career

Choi was born in 1973 in Hong Kong to a Chaoshanese family. Her parents divorced when she was five years old. She speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, Teochew and English. In 1989, at the persuasion of her family, Choi participated in a modeling contest held by TVB at age 15. Two years later, she was a contestant in the 1991 Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant. During the semi-finals she placed first with an overall score of 483. She eventually finished as the second runner-up during the finals. As a result, she signed a contract with TVB and starting taking on acting jobs. She won the TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actress for her performance in Secret of the Heart (1998). Along with Maggie Cheung Ho-yee, Kenix Kwok, Flora Chan and Jessica Hsuan, Choi is known as one of the Top 5 "Fa Dans" (term used for actresses with high popularity) of TVB from the mid-1990s to mid-2000s.

Followed by a stalled career and limited earnings at TVB, Choi shifted her focus to mainland China in the 2010s, where she found success with the costume drama Empresses in the Palace (2012). Since then, she appeared mainly in variety and reality shows, such as Up Idol (2015), Run for Time (2015), My Dearest Ladies (2019) and Viva La Romance (2020).

Personal life

On 12 January 2008, Choi married Chinese actor Max Zhang whom she had dated for more than four years. He was her co-star in a number of Zhouyi Media television productions including The Legend of Magic Mirror (2003) and Eight Charts (2005). They have two daughters, Zoe and Chloe, born in 2011 and 2013 respectively. In 2019, they announced on social media that they were expecting their third child. They welcomed their son, Joey Zhang Le'er aka Yudan in November 2019.

Filmography and awards

Television

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Year	Title	Role
1992	Revelation of the Last Hero	Ling Seung
1993	Racing Peak	Chung Oi Ling
All About Tin	Gu Suet
The Link	Chai Suet Yi
The Buddhism Palm Strikes Back	Tin Heung
The Movie About Stupid Mr. Lee	Fat Jak Fong
Man of Wisdom	Seung Seung
1994	Shade of Darkness	Lo Siu Mei
1995	The Romance of the White Hair Maiden	Lin Ngai-seung
Justice Pao	Mang Yu Yik / Suen Siu Nga
The Fist of Law	Fa Gu
1997	File of Justice V	Lee Tung
1998	Healing Hands	Jackie Tong Chi Lai
Secret of the Heart	Diana Suen Wah
1999	A Matter of Business	Wong Yuk Fan
At the Threshold of An Era	Tin Ning
Unnatural Born Killer	Tse Ngan Giu
2000	Healing Hands II	Jackie Tong Chi Lai
At the Threshold of An Era II	Tin Ning
2001	Armed Reaction III	Wai Ying Chi
On the Track or Off	Luk Wing Yee
2002	Where the Legend Begins	Yan Fuk
2003	Fate Twisters	Sheung Hei
The Legend of Magic Mirror (水月洞天)	Dou Dou (豆豆)
The Legend of Magic Mirror II	Dou Dou
2004	Armed Reaction IV	Wai Ying Chi
To Catch the Uncatchable	Vivian Lee Wai Wai
2005	Seven Swordsmen (七劍下天山)	Flying Red Sash
Eight Charts (八阵图)	Qian Xun
2007	Tian Xian Pei (天仙配)	Fourth Fairy (Guest star)
2008	Lei Hen Jian (淚痕劍	Die Wu (蝶舞/琥珀)
2008-2009	The Gem of Life	Hong Nga-Sze (Jessica)
2010	Fly with Me	Leung Hau-chi (Yvonne) / Janet Bin
Who's the Hero (勝者為王)	Tung Fa-shun (童花順)
2011	Xi Jin Du (西津渡)	Shao Yue'e (邵月娥)
2012	The Legend of Zhen Huan	Empress Xiaojingxian
In Love with Power (山河恋·美人无泪)	Empress Xiaoduanwen
2013	Beauty at War	Bouamukchaai Sheung-ling
2015	Run for Time	Cast Member
2017	Oh My Grad
2018	Woman in Love
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Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Hail the Judge	Yu Yin
Fist of Legend	Hua's girlfriend
1995	A Chinese Odyssey Part Two - Cinderella	Princess Iron Fan
The Golden Girls	Lulu Shum
1996	Love and Sex Among the Ruins	Billie	Nominated - Golden Bauhinia Awards for Best Actress
Once Upon a Time in Triad Society 2	Deda	Nominated - Golden Bauhinia Awards for Best Supporting Actress
Bloody Friday	Ada
Mystery Files	Foo Man Dik
1997	Passionate Nights
Walk In	May
Troublesome Night	Ken's love interest
Made in Heaven	Lily Wong
Ah Fai, the Dumb	Jody
1998	T.H.E. Professionals
Casino
The Suspect	Annie Chung
Your Place or Mine!	Vivian Ng	Nominated - Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for Best Actress
Rape Trap	Li Shan-Shan
1999	The Doctor in Spite of Himself	Don
My Heart Will Go On
2000	Paramount Motel	Li Yuk-hing
2004	The Miracle Box	Dr. Joanna Tse
2009	Rebellion	Cheung Wah	Nominated - Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for Best Actress
2010	Just Another Pandora's Box	Princess Iron Fan	Guest star
2013	My Lucky Star
2014	Just Another Margin
One Step Away
2016	S Storm	Wong Man-ling
2018	Agent Mr Chan		Guest star
2019	Assassins and the Missing Gold
2025	Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants	Li Ping
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References

References

1. "蔡少芬生日和张晋过二人世界 宣布"封肚"". 8World Entertainment Lifestyle.
2. (5 June 2021). "The Independent: Netizen paid SGD930 for an injection after seeing fake ad featuring Ada Choi".
3. (5 June 2021). "The Independent: Netizen paid SGD930 for an injection after seeing fake ad featuring Ada Choi".
4. "Ada Choi Says She Joined Showbiz So She Could Stop Doing Housework".
5. "Ada Choi Says She Joined Showbiz So She Could Stop Doing Housework".
6. (19 January 2008). "Ada Choi & Max Zhang Gets Married!".
7. (12 January 2008). "Ada Choi and Actor Zhang Jin Get Married".
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9. [http://www.jaynestars.com/news/ada-choi-im-not-giving-birth-anymore "Ada Choi: I'm not giving birth anymore"] {{webarchive. link. (March 24, 2015 , jaynestars.com; accessed 25 July 2015.)
10. "3rd Baby on the Way: Ada Choi Announces Pregnancy".
11. [https://movie.douban.com/celebrity/1050946/ Ada Choi at douban.com]
12. [http://chinesemov.com/actors/Ada%20Choi.html Ada Choi at chinesemov.com]

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