Zoe Tay, Acting - KorPlix:Korean Person Archives

Back

Back

Top

Korplix
Korean Online
Content Archives

0
2.279

Zoe Tay
Acting

Zoe Tay
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1968-01-10,Singapore
Gender
Female
Biography
Zoe Tay is a Singaporean actress , a former model and was named as "Queen of Caldecott Hill" by local media and fellow referred to as "Ah Jie" (senior actress) due to her status. Tay started out as a model at the age of 16. In 1987, she was named Model of The Year. After Tay was crowned champion of the inaugural Star Search in 1988, she was offered a 3-year contract with the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), now known as Mediacorp. While Tay had initially disliked acting, she began feeling passionate for her craft after her role in Crime and Passion in 1991. Her breakthrough performance as a materialistic young woman in Pretty Faces catapulted her into stardom. Her popularity was affirmed with a Top 10 Most Popular Female Artiste Award at the Star Awards every year for ten consecutive years since its inception in 1994. In 1996, Zoe won the Best Actress award for her role in The Golden Pillow at the annual Star Awards. In 2004, she was the first actress to have been awarded the prestigious All-Time Favourite Artiste . Other than television dramas, Tay also forayed into films. In 2010, she starred opposite Hong Kong actor Kenny Ho in Love Cuts, playing the role of a terminally ill woman who has breast cancer. In 2013, she appeared in her first fully English-speaking role in Mister John with Irish star Aidan Gillen. Tay has collaborated with many artistes in her various projects. Her on-screen chemistry with Li Nanxing in The Unbeatables and other serials has put them in the list of the Top 5 Best Onscreen Couples at the Star Awards 25th Drama Anniversary show. In 2015, she collaborated for the first time with Huang Biren, in The Dream Makers II. Due to her contributions to the television industry in Singapore, a wax figurine was modelled after her by Madame Tussauds Singapore, and is currently on display in the museum. Tay won her second Best Actress at the Star Awards 2017 for You Can Be an Angel 2, 21 years after her first. In an interview, she revealed that after her first win in 1996, she had contemplated quitting as she felt "strangely empty and lost". Instead, she enrolled in an acting class in New York, an experience which transformed her to "someone who is focused on improving my acting and who can be exemplary to other actors." Guiding her are three Chinese words from her father: 毅力 or perseverance, 耐力 or endurance , 勇气 or courage. In Star Awards 2019, Tay won her third Best Actress for the drama, A Million Dollar Dream.

Filmography

6.8

Love Cuts
2010-09-09

5.2

Mister John
2013-06-27

0

Recipe
2013-09-29

Asian Beat: Love from Temasek

0

Asian Beat: Love from Temasek
1991-09-01

Liang Po Po: The Movie

8.25

Liang Po Po: The Movie
1999-02-11

0

The Tree
2001-04-26

Love... And Other Bad Habits

0

Love... And Other Bad Habits
2013-02-14

0

The Scoop
1997-12-22

Pointed Triangle

0

Pointed Triangle
1995-05-18

Love Knows No Bounds

0

Love Knows No Bounds
1995-01-01

0

Love Dowry
1994-01-01

The Unbeatables

0

The Unbeatables
1993-11-04

The Return of the Condor Heroes

7

The Return of the Condor Heroes
1998-06-02

The Dream Makers

0

The Dream Makers
2015-12-03

My Guardian Angels

0

My Guardian Angels
2020-04-06

A Million Dollar Dream

0

A Million Dollar Dream
2018-04-09

0

How Are You?
2019-01-04

0

Eat Already?
2016-09-09

0

All is Well
2019-03-01

You Can Be an Angel

0

You Can Be an Angel
2015-05-05

0

VIC
2018-04-19

A Million Treasures

0

A Million Treasures
2006-12-04

2

The Ultimatum
2009-05-27

0

Double Bonus
2012-01-03

5

Baby Boom
2003-09-01

0

Devotion
2011-06-28

0

La Femme
2008-06-02

0

Man at Forty
2004-05-17

Strange Encounters

0

Strange Encounters
1987-10-26

The Last Swordsman

0

The Last Swordsman
1991-01-01

My Mighty-in-Laws

0

My Mighty-in-Laws
2004-11-17

0

Pretty Faces
1991-01-01

0

Lost Soul
1999-01-01

My Home Affairs

0

My Home Affairs
2000-01-01

While We Are Young

0

While We Are Young
2017-11-06

0

Hero
2016-11-22

The Teochew Family

0

The Teochew Family
1995-08-08

0

The Stratagem
2001-01-01

A Different Life

0

A Different Life
1996-01-01

The Millennium Bug

0

The Millennium Bug
1999-01-01

Carlsberg Lunar New Year Variety Show 2010

0

Carlsberg Lunar New Year Variety Show 2010
2010-01-17

Terms of Endearment

0

Terms of Endearment
1992-01-01

My One and Only

0

My One and Only
2023-07-27

0

出人头地
1990-03-20

0

窈窕淑女
1988-01-01

The New Adventure of Wisely

0

The New Adventure of Wisely
1998-09-15

The Dream Makers

0

The Dream Makers
2013-06-24

The Golden Pillow

0

The Golden Pillow
1995-11-21