Category Archives: Actresses

Christy Chung

Christy Chung

In my post yesterday, I mentioned that Coco Lee was voted the 47th sexiest woman in Asia by FHM magazine in 2000. So who was number one? Hong Kong actress Christy Chung.

Born in Montreal, Canada to Vietnamese parents of Chinese descent, her native language is actually French, although she also speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Vietnamese(!). She first came to prominence when she won the Miss Chinese International Pageant in 1993.I recently became aware of this actress myself from her role in the absolutely brilliant art house film Samsara. If you haven’t seen this film then I highly recommend that you do (unless you’re only into Hollywood blockbusters), as it a bona fide masterpiece. It is a truly beautiful and often very sensual film, and Christy’s performance compliments it perfectly – the main sex scene featuring Christy is by far the most beautiful I’ve ever seen.

Although she has appeared in nearly 30 films, I can’t say any of the others are of the same quality. Still, she’s never afraid to take her clothes off! She’s also released one (sadly out of print) photo album – together with an accompanying DVD (still available) – entitled “Feel…”, shot on a remote island in Thailand. This is a truly classy and artistic piece of work.

Interestingly, I don’t find her exceptionally pretty, but she has a real inner beauty that is truly captivating. She also really knows how to be sexy, as evidenced by the aforementioned sex scene and these photos (mostly taken from Feel…). The best fan site I’ve found is Totally Christy Chung, which features links to several videos from around the net. There’s plenty of pics too, but they can be hard to find.

Shu Qi: Actress and occasional adult model

Shu Qi

You guys may have mentioned her before, but I figured she is hot enough to warrant a post.

One of East Asia’s most popular actresses, Shu Qi (a/k/a: Hsu Chi, Shu Kei, Li-Hui Lin) is a frequent star of the region’s best films. In addition to being an onscreen force, she is a stunningly beautiful woman whose soft features and exotic face make us want to learn Cantonese as soon as possible.After establishing herself as a model and soft porn actress, Shu Qi branched out into mainstream film. She is known for starring in Gorgeous with Jackie Chan and the international hit, So Close. Shu Qi is by and large an actress in Chinese films, but she impressed American audiences in her first and only English film, 2002’s The Transporter.

Full story and some *nice* hi-res (and weak) semi-nude low-res movie stills on the full story.

Having the luxury of a Reuters/AP wire photo database in China, I have to admit I got lazy and only did a cursory Google investigation for nudes. Now I leave it to you experts to scour for the good stuff (and tell the rest of us!) 🙂

Star Trek babe: Linda Park

Star Trek babe: Linda Park

A couple of years ago I was a Star Trek fan. But that passion (unlike my passion for Asian women ;-)) faded away. I did see the first season of the newest TV series Star Trek Enterprise, and immediately noticed Korean beauty Ensign Hoshi Sato played by Linda Park. So now it’s time to do some research on her.

I found out she posed for FHM in September 2003. The photo’s can be seen here and here. And smaller sizes at the bottom of this posting. There was some fuss about Linda being misquoted in the FHM article. She wanted to clear the air about that herself. Read what she had to say. Want to read everything she has to say? Then go to Linda’s Post Archive.

Linda Park official site with info and photo’s
Linda Park @ Star Trek.com
Linda Park @ IMDB.com
Linda Park featured in a forum (lot’s of pictures!)
More and better pictures@ RobbsCelebsA mini biography

Born in Korea in 1978 and raised in San Jose, California, Linda Park began performing in theatre productions in high school and went on to study acting at Boston University where she received a B.F.A. Only one year after graduation, she joined the cast of Enterprise as Ensign Hoshi Sato.

Prior to landing that role in 2001, Park had just completed filming “Jurassic Park III.” She has also guest-starred on the television series Popular. Her stage credits include “Mad Forest,” “Lysistrata,” “Cyrano,” “Richard III” and “The Trojan Women.”

Park currently lives in Los Angeles. She is a bronze-level international Latin ballroom dancer and a certified actor combatant by the Society of American Fight Directors.

(biography from: StarTrek.com)

To be honest, I don’t really like the make-up she has in this FHM photoshoot:

Linda Park in FHM (Photography: Eric Cahan)

Linda Park in FHM (Photography: Eric Cahan)

Linda Park in FHM (Photography: Eric Cahan)

I like her more natural style:

Star Trek babe: Linda Park

Or with this make-up:

Star Trek babe: Linda Park

Pace Wu (in MAXIM Hong Kong)

Pace Wu (Photography: Fu)

When I was in Hong Kong at the beginning of this month, I picked up some magazines. One of them was the MAXIM. (I also bought a more explicit magazine, but I will post from that one later on ;-)) Featured in this September issue is a beautiful lady named Pace Wu. Allmosty all text is in Chinese, so the only info I could extract was her name. But then a Google search was more informative.

Pace Wu (born 1978) is a Chinese (Taiwanese) actress, pop-singer and model! On her official site there are some nice glamour style photo’s and some information, unfortunately mostly in Chinese. There is quite a lot of info on her to be found on the web, so if this posting isn’t enough for you, be my guest and Google on! Or just check these photo’s on ChinaStar.com

But here I present to you 5 of the original 11 MAXIM photo’s. (Scanning is very time consuming! ;-))I totally agree with MAXIM: she is very sexy!

Pace Wu (Photography: Fu)

Pace Wu (Photography: Fu)

Pace Wu (Photography: Fu)

Pace Wu (Photography: Fu)

Vanessa Minnillo – Current Maxim covergirl

Vanessa Minnillo

Vanessa Minnillo is the current Maxim covergirl as can be seen in the above picture. You can find 4 pictures plus an excerpt of her interview with Maxim on maximonline.com. Maxim subscribers can view 10 more pictures including some web exclusives plus a video clip in the Maxim lounge. Thanks to northman (for providing the links), those who aren’t Maxim subscribers can view all of her Maxim pictures and the video clip too.

Vanessa is half Filipina and half Italian/Irish and as noted in the Maxim feature is an MTV VJ and Entertainment Tonight reporter. She got her start in the entertainment business competing and winning beauty pageants most notably Miss Teen USA.

There are not a lot of pictures of Vanessa online based on a google image search but here is a nice one in a bikini (not from Maxim):

Vanessa Minnillo

Vanessa has previously been featured as model of the week on askmen.com which includes her biography and comments about how they rate her according to certain criteria.

Trivia about Vanessa from tv.com:

1. Has dated Derek Jeter off and on since 2003.
2. in the Skintimates shaving gel commercial (spring/summer 2004).
3. Vanessa is the cover girl for the June 2004 issue of American Cheerleader magazine.
4. Vanessa’s currently a VJ at MTV and hosting shows, such as Morning After, TRL, and MTV Hits. She visited TRL at the end of her Miss Teen USA reign in 1999.
5. former high school varsity cheerleader; Universal Cheerleading Association All-Star.
10. was crowned Miss Teen USA and received the Congeniality award in 1998; brought home the “bacon” as the first delegate from South Carolina to capture the title; received the highest score in Interview, Swimsuit, and Evening Gown.
11. pilots: WB’s Top of the Pops (host; 2001); FOX’s The Break (Malia; 2003).
12. she’s an avid surfer; she even surfed in The Break.

Thanks to northman for the suggestion to feature her on Asian Sirens!

Vietnamese beauty: Tran Nu Yên-Khê

Tran Nu Yen-Khe

Yesterday my recent fascination with Vietnam made me watch the film Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000) which I bought in Saigon for only 70 cents. I think the film was too pretentious and too slow, but the scenery and cinematography were absolutely great! And so were some of the women! Tran Nu Yên-Khê was the one that really made it all worth while for me.She was born in 1968 in Anxiuan, Vietnam and also starred in Cyclo and The Scent of the Green Papaya. Not very strange, as she is married to the director Anh Hung Tran 😉 I Will have to watch these two films!

Try a Google image search.

Tran Nu Yen-Khe

Tran Nu Yen-Khe

Tran Nu Yen-Khe

Tran Nu Yen-Khe