Maggie Cheung is ready for her close-up, Mr. DeMille!

Contributing Writer; Toronto, Canada
Maggie Cheung is ready for her close-up, Mr. DeMille!

As a ScreenAnarchy-O-Meter, this post will remain up on top of the page for most of the day (or, being a "Mr. DeMille" article, until it gets fully guessed). Gaze upon the lovely visage Ms. Cheung, but do not forget to scroll down for additional news and articles!

"No matter where I'm going, I feel like I'm leaving something behind. Every time I get on a plane, I cry. The flight attendants on Cathay Pacific must think I'm mad."

Cosmopolitan, gorgeous, multi-lingual, and one of cinemas great ladies, Maggie Cheung went from Hong Kong model to European festival juror with many accolades and prizes in between. Whether she is posing beside Jackie Chan or for Wong Kar Wai she has a presence on the screen. She can can be icy cold and distant or warm and generous. Sometimes, as in the case of several films with her ex-Husband, director Olivier Assayas, both extremes in the same picture. At her prime, she worked with a great many of the top HK directors, Tsui Hark, Johnnie To, wkw, Zhang Yimou, Stanley Kwan and Ching Siu-Tung. With her British upbringing and cultural fluency, she has worked for a number of directors in Europe and America. Over the past half-decade, she has slowed down her voluminous output, doing only two nearly-cropped-entirely-from-the-film cameos (That would be Inglorious Basterds and 2046). They say always keep 'em wanting more, but please Maggie, a few more films would make us happy, happy folks.

How well do you know the faces of Maggie Cheung? This is not a competition, there are no prizes, bragging rights in the comment section. Friends don't let friends use the IMDB as a crutch.
I will post the answers just before this post drops off the main page, that is, if all you smart folks out there do not get them first! Extra points for the cropped 'cover-image at the top of the post.

Good luck!

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