Maggie Cheung was born in Hong Kong on September 20th 1964 but grew up mostly in the UK. Which she thinks help her in here acting because it gave her the chance to learn different languages, where many Chinese actors at the time only spoke in Cantonese.
when she return in Hong Kong in 83 she started working in beauty pageant, a year later she would start acting. Her first film was Shi lian zhuan jia. Most of Maggie Cheung early roles where just minor eye candy parts