Charmaine Sheh

Charmaine Sheh
Charmaine Sheh in 2009
Background information
Chinese name	佘詩曼 (traditional)
Chinese name	佘诗曼 (simplified)
Pinyin	Shé Shīmàn (Mandarin)
Jyutping	Se4 Si1-maan6 (Cantonese)
Born	(1975-05-28) 28 May 1975 (age 41) Hong Kong
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	1997–present
Ancestry	Zhongshan, Guangdong, China
Website	http://www.weibo.com/charmainesheh http://instagram.com/sheh_me/
Awards TVB Anniversary Awards Best Actress 2006 Maiden's Vow 2014 Line Walker My Favourite Female Character 2006 Maidens' Vow 2010 Can't Buy Me Love 2014 Line Walker My Favourite Television Characters 2000 Return of the Cuckoo 2001 Country Spirit 2003 Perish in the Name of Love 2004 War and Beauty My Favourite On-screen Partners (Drama) 2000 Return of the Cuckoo Asian Television Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role 2011 Can't Buy Me Love

Sheh Sze-man (Charmaine Sheh) (born 28 May 1975) is a Hong Kong actress and a contracted artiste under TVB best known for acting in many television series produced by TVB since 1998.

Sheh graduated in 1994 from the International Hotel Management Institute Switzerland in Lucerne, Switzerland, with a diploma in hotel management. On October 1997, she signed on with the 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. Since then, Sheh has grown over the years to be a highly acclaimed and revered thespian in Hong Kong.

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. In 2014, Charmaine Sheh has received multiple awards for her performance in Line Walker. She won both Best/Favourite Actress and Favourite TV Character at TVB 48th Anniversary Award Presentation, TVB Star Awards Malaysia 2014 and Singapore StarHub TVB Awards 2014. Sheh is the third actress to win Best Actress for a second time (leading with Liza Wang and Sheren Tang and it's 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 a second time.