She was discovered as a teenager by a Japanese talent scout. Like many movie stars in Hong Kong, she has also pursued a career as a singer, touring in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, and she has released more than half a dozen CDs.
In her homeland, she retains a reputation for wholesomeness, and the philandering of her husband, leading to a divorce in 2000, caused a media stir. While she was married, she went into semi-retirement, enjoyed being a mother, and pursued interests in arts and crafts, primarily embroidery and clay sculpture. She graduated from Hong Kong Art School in 2008.
She is in , , Putonghua, and and is a fan of Jackie Chan , Tom Cruise, Rie Miyazawa, and . Her roles in ''Mark Six Comedy'' and ''Boxer's Story'' include brief passages of English dialogue.
Discovery by talent scout
During secondary school at Saint Ma Jiali Women's Academy, she went to Japan, and was discovered by a talent scout. She was only thirteen , took a Japanese name, At age 19, she appeared in another play, 洗腳水 .
Film career: first phase
She frequently appears in supporting roles, such as Su Rongrong , an acrobatic acupuncturist in ''The Legend of the Liquid Sword'', or the just slightly-too-young bounty hunter Fung Ling in ''Flying Dagger''. Her most noted role is Ashura the Hell Virgin, a major supporting role in ''Peacock King'', which is usually cited as her screen debut at age 15.) and a starring role in ''Saga of the Phoenix''. This role is also quite comic and often slapstick. She plays a mischievous but essentially innocent offspring of devils. She possesses great power, but essentially as a vessel for others to wield, or for her to use when she is not really trying, and thus she is a source of great danger without any malice. In both films, her character is redeemed when she helps her friends Peacock King/Kujaku and Lucky Fruit , who act as her guardians, destroy major demons. The role was more demanding in the second film, in which her childlike innocence and mischief is somewhat quelled by a mystical death sentence that attacks her like a disease.
Released half a year prior to ''Peacock King'' was the multi-award-winning comedy, ''Chicken and Duck Talk''. Her role is limited to less than a minute of screen time, playing Judy, friend of Michael Hui's son. Judy is referred to several times, is glimpsed briefly in David's Chicken, and appears in the duck restaurant at the film's finale, and never speaks, though she is spoken to. In ''Demoness from Thousand Years'', she appears only at the beginning and end of the film and is listed twelfth in the screen credits, though promotional materials, including the DVD cover, feature her prominently and give her second billing. Her character, Siu-Yi, carries the weight of a second lead in her included scenes as companion to Yun Yu-Yi , but is unconscious throughout most of the film's narrative, being frozen in the pre-credits sequence and revived during the climax, communicating with Yu-Yi through a television set, and appearing as a doll vendor in the last scene. Prior to these roles, she appeared in the 22 October 1987 and 11 November 1997 episodes of the television series, ''Goodbye Darling''.
She often plays roles that are younger than she is in real life, abetted by the fact that she is just under 5'2". In ''Saviour of the Soul'', she played Andy Lau's 12 year-old kid sister, Wai Heung, who is enamored with baseball, when she was eighteen.
Her other roles include the young bride, Belle Kao, in Jackie Chan's '''', in which much of the film's narrative is driven by her character's wedding; Gucci in ''The Blue Jean Monster'', the mysterious Alien Girl in '''', Ann in ''Pink Bomb'', and a cameo as Ricki's murdered girlfriend, Ying, in ''''. Of all her films, ''Story of Ricky'' has received the widest release in the United States, thanks to promotion by Comedy Central, although its Category III rating made it a minor film in Hong Kong.
Marriage, retirement, and arts and crafts
Her goal was to make a film that she herself would particularly like, and as such she is not particularly prolific as Hong Kong film actors go. She retired from the screen after appearing in the film, ''The Gods Must Be Crazy V: The Gods Must Be Funny in China'', to get married to toy businessman 陳柏浩 on May 25, 1995, and the birth of a son, 陳紹臻 , followed in February, 1996. The couple had a daughter, 陳衍衍 , whose name translates "Spread Out," November 30, 1999.
Yip continued to appear on television to demonstrate her hobby of embroidery, and she also wrote a magazine column on arts and crafts. In 1997, she enrolled at Causeway Bay School to study clay sculpture. She graduated from Hong Kong Art School on January 27, 2008, with her porcelain thesis work, 戀物/''Materialism'' .
Divorce and return to film
In January 2000, Yip and Chen were divorced at Chen's suggestion after he had an extramarital affair and was visiting brothels. Details of the affair were exposed to the media in 2002, including Yip publishing excerpts from her own diary concerning her feelings.) of an office of immature twentysomethings, deriving humor though being serious, in both ''Boxer's Story'', a drama, and ''Osaka Wrestling Restaurant'', a comedy, she plays serious roles as ex-wives of unsuccessful men, each with a son. In the latter film, she is not involved in any of the comic antics whatsoever, and structurally, her role, a "special appearance" with only four scenes, is designed to give the film an emotional core it might otherwise lack. In the former film, she plays the ex-wife of a character played by Yuen, and much of the film is about regaining her son now that she is married to a cardiologist and has a successful career of her own in automotive sales, primarily to English-speaking clients. In ''Breezy Summer'', her role, again eponymous, is a performance.
Later that year, she was reunited with ''Story of Ricky'' star Terry Fan Siu Wong and ''The Cat'' star Christine Ng in the television miniseries, ''Magic Sword of Heaven and Earth'', as the goddess Guanyin, which aired in 2005. This role, again serious, is a figure of divine intervention at the second act turning point, and a brief visit in the film's finale. Most of these were low budget productions shot on digital video rather than on film.
In 2007, she appeared in ''''.
Discography
The musicians who perform with Gloria Yip on her albums include Ricky Ho, Belinda Foo, Iskandar Ismail , Eddie Marzuki, Jonathan Koh, Shah Tahir , Stephen Rufus , Larry Lai , and . The songs are composed by many different people, as are the lyrics, though Yip sometimes writes her own lyrics, such as for "請你等等" .
*''Gloria Yip''
*''Ashura''
*''S.O.S.''
*''Seoul''
*欺騙你的心/''Cheat Your Heart''
*'' ''
*''Don't Hurt Me If You Love Me''
*''Have You Ever Thought About Me?''
*真的愛我就不要讓我傷心/''Really Likes Me not Likely to Make Me Sad''
*諾言/''Promise''
*''Truly Clean''
*是你答應說要對我好/''Were You Insisting That Must Be Good for Me?''
*把我放在心裡頭/Places in My Heart
Filmography
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The official English titles of the first three and are essentially literal translations. Otherwise, translations are provided when available.
*''Goodbye Darling'' /''The Blue Jean Monster'' ... Gucci
*豪門夜宴 ''Haomen yeyan'' /'''' ... Party Guest
*九一神鵰俠侶 ''Gau yat: San diu hap lui'' /''Saviour of the Soul'' ... Wai Heung
*新孖寶妙探 ''Jeung Bo Miu Taam'' /''The New Marvelous Double''
*衛斯理之老貓 ''Wai Si Li zhi Lao Mao'' /Wisely in '''' ... Alien Girl
*愛情戀曲 /''The Modern Love Story''
*霧都情仇 ''Wu du qing chou'' /''Misty''
*笑俠楚留香 ''Siu hap Cho Lau Heung'' /''The Legend of the Liquid Sword'' ... Su Rongrong "Ron"
*人生得意衰盡歡 ''Ren sheng de yi shuai jin huan'' /''Pink Bomb'' ... Ann
*神經刀與飛天貓 ''Shen Jing Dao yu Fei Tian Mao'' /''Flying Dagger'' ... Fung Ling
*''Democrats''
*開心華之裡 /''Mind Our Own Business''
*非洲超人 ''Fei zhou chao ren'' /''The Gods Must Be Crazy V: The Gods Must Be Funny in China''
*''Length Further Information and Length'' TV series
*星光伴我行 /''Starry Journey'' TV episode .... Documentary; Gloria Yip explores Thailand
*雪地裡的星星 /Starry Starry Night... ... Oncologist
*愛情白皮書寫真樂譜集 /''Tomorrow Photo Album''
*連鎖奇幻檔案之死亡音樂 /''Death Melody'' ... Xiao Xue
*傷生兒 /''Double Face Girl'' ... Tung
*多重彩 /''Mark Six Comedy'' ... Gloria
*賊盗将軍 ''Zeidao Jiangjun''/''Thieves Steal the Generals''
*赤子拳王 ''Chek ji kuen wong'' /''Boxer's Story'' ... Susan
*夏之春 /''Breezy Summer'' ... Gloria
*大阪撻一餐 ''Daai Baan Taat Yat Chaan'' /''Osaka Wrestling Restaurant'' ... Maye
*天地神劍 ''Tian di shen jian'' /''Magic Sword of Heaven and Earth'' ... Goddess Guanyin
* 魔術男 ''Mor suit nam''/''''
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