Charmaine Sheh


Charmaine Sheh Sze-man is a Hong Kong actress. She is best known for her roles in Return of the Cuckoo, Maidens' Vow, Can't Buy Me Love, When Heaven Burns, Line Walker, and Story of Yanxi Palace. After winning second runner-up in the 1997 Miss Hong Kong pageant, she debuted as an actress in 1998 and has since won many accolades, including 10 TVB Anniversary Awards.

Career

Sheh graduated in 1994 from the International Hotel Management Institute Switzerland in Lucerne, Switzerland, with a diploma in hotel management. In October 1997, she signed with Hong Kong television network TVB after emerging as second runner-up in the 1997 Miss Hong Kong Pageant. The early stage of her career was often characterised by her coy, squeaky voice and criticisms of her acting skills. However, Sheh overcame these problems and made her breakthrough in Return of the Cuckoo in 2000, co-starring with Nancy Sit, Julian Cheung and Steven Ma.
In 2006, Sheh became the first TVB actress to win two major awards at the same TVB Anniversary Awards ceremony, clinching the Best Actress Award and My Favourite Female TV Character for her performance in Maidens' Vow.
She also won the Top Four Actresses Award with Ruby Lin, Zhao Wei and Liu Yifei. Sheh was the first Hong Kong television actress to be shortlisted for the semi-finals of the Best Actress category at the 35th International Emmy Awards in 2007. In 2011 she was awarded Best Actress at the Asian Television Awards for her performance in Can't Buy Me Love.
After 14 years, she left TVB to develop her acting career in China and returned in 2014 for a two-year contract with TVBC, a joint venture between TVB and China Media Capital and Shanghai Media Group.
Sheh returned to the small screen in 2014, playing the undercover cop Ding Siu Ka in Line Walker. She received multiple awards for her performance and won both Best Actress and Favourite TV Character at TVB 48th Anniversary Awards Presentation, TVB Star Awards Malaysia 2014 and Singapore StarHub TVB Awards 2014.
Sheh is the third actress to win Best Actress twice and her third time to win "My Favourite Female Character" at the TVB Anniversary Awards. She also became first actress to be crowned double TV Queen for the second time.
In 2018, Sheh portrayed Hoifa-Nara Shushen in the Chinese period drama Story of Yanxi Palace. For this role, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 24th Huading Awards.

Filmography

Film

Television series

Variety Shows / Game Shows

Music Videos

Discography

Awards