Chinese name 鄭惠玉 (traditional) Pinyin Occupation Actress Height 1.66 m | Chinese name 郑惠玉 (simplified) Birth name Tay Hui Gek Years active 1988–present Spouse Philip Chionh (m. 1995) | |
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Children Brayden Chionh, Ashton Chionh, Nathan Chionh Movies Mister John, The Tree, Recipe TV shows You Can Be An Angel Too, The Unbeatables I, The Ultimatum, The Golden Pillow, The Teochew Family Similar Li Nanxing, Jeanette Aw, Fann Wong, Chen Hanwei, Huang Biren Profiles | ||
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Zoe Tay (born 10 January 1968) is a Singaporean actress and former model. At the Star Awards 2004, Tay received the All-Time Favourite Artiste award.
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Career
Tay started out as a model at the age of sixteen. 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 Award.
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.
In 2014, a wax figurine was modelled after her by Madame Tussauds Singapore, and is currently on display in the museum.
Personal life
Tay is the sixth of seven children born to Teochew parents. Her father worked at a pig farm in Lim Chu Kang while her mother was a housewife. Tay attended the now-defunct Kay Hua Primary School and later, Yuan Ching Secondary School, where she completed her O-level examinations. She studied design at the Baharuddin Vocational Institute.
She is fluent in Mandarin, Teochew and Cantonese.
Tay is married to Philip Chionh, an RSAF pilot. They were engaged in 1995 and held their wedding ceremony in 2001. They have 3 sons together: Brayden, Ashton and Nathan.
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