Sandra Ng is widely recognized as the most bankable actress in Hong Kong, with her movies grossing over HK$750 million in the Hong Kong box office alone. Having starred in over 100 films, she is crowned the Queen of Comedy by many.
Ng entered the show business during the golden period of the Hong Kong film industry in the 80s. Her hilarious, filthy persona has made her stand out from other actresses and landed her countless comedic roles in movies such as The Greatest Lover (1988) with Chow Yun-Fat and All’s Well End Well (1992) with Stephen Chow and Maggie Cheung. But it wasn’t until her performance as a triad leader in Portland Street Blues (1998) that earned her recognition as a serious actress and won her the Best Actress award in the Hong Kong Film Awards. She continued to challenge herself in different roles such as a mob wife in Dante Lam’s Jiang Hu: The Triad Zone (2000), a Tango dancer wannabe in Andrew Lau’s Dance of a Dream (2001) and a prostitute in Samson Chiu’s Golden Chicken (2002), in which she received her second Best Actress award in the Golden Horse Awards. Her recent films include the 2009 highest grossing HK film All’s Well End’s Well 2009 (2009) and Echoes of the Rainbow (2010), which won the Crystal Bear award in this year’s Berlin Int’l Film Festival and earned Ng a Best Actress nomination in the Hong Kong Film Awards.