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Françoise Yip

Sep 04, 1972 (52 years old) in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Françoise Fong-Wa Yip ( born September 4, 1972) is a Canadian actress. Her best-known roles are the redeemable bad girls in Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx and Jet Li's Black Mask. The critical and financial success of Rumble in the Bronx (and its subsequent number-one box-office bow in the United States) made Yip an instant success and garnered her two Hong Kong Film Award nominations. She continued to do movies and star in TV, but her roles were less known or temporary. The characters she plays often get killed or serve as a background character. Yip appeared in the television series Andromeda as two different characters. Her first character was arrested, and her final character was murdered. She did two movies with Jet Li, the first as a lead romantic interest in Black Mask and the second in Romeo Must Die, but this time she played a Chinese gangster motorcycle assassin killed by Jet Li and Aaliyah. An unfortunate aspect of her career is that none of the TV shows she starred in lasted beyond a full season, and if she did have a starring role in a movie it was a straight-to-video/DVD film. Her most recent appearance was in the new Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem movie, and she guest-starred in the Canadian TV show Blood Ties.

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Known For

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Smallville
Lia Teng
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Arrow
The Priestess
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Fringe
Dr. Rosa Oporto
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Earth: Final Conflict
Beverly Wu
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Andromeda
Rekel Ben-Tzion
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The Dead Zone
Maria
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Sanctuary
Dr. Lillian Lee
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Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
Ms. Y
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Travelers
Judge
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iZombie
Meg Nevins

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