Cynthia Khan
| Cynthia Khan | |
|---|---|
| Chinese name | 楊麗菁 (traditional) |
| Chinese name | 杨丽菁 (simplified) |
| Birth name | Yang Li-Tsing |
| Born |
13 December 1968 Chiayi County, Taiwan |
| Occupation | Actress and martial artist |
Yang Li-Tsing, better known by her stage name Cynthia Yang (born 13 December 1968, Chiayi County) is a Taiwanese actress and martial artist.
Yang studied Chinese and jazz dance at school. At the age of 17, she won a national talent contest run by a Taiwanese television station. Later she practised taekwondo, achieving a high level in this martial art.
In 1987, she signed a contract and made her film debut in In the Line of Duty 3. The film was a box office success and started her long career. Sequels and other films followed, many of them in the girls with guns genre, most notably In the Line of Duty 4: Witness, directed and choreographed by Yuen Woo-ping and co-starring Donnie Yen.
Her screen name is a combination of the names of established Hong Kong stars Cynthia Rothrock and Michelle Yeoh (then known as Michelle Khan), whom she replaced in the In the Line of Duty movie series.
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