关南施 (1939) Nancy Kwan
演员 制片人 配音
At just 18, Nancy Kwan was studying dance with England's Royal Ballet
School, when she was spotted by producer
Ray Stark, who tested her and gave her the
starring role of a free-spirited Hong Kong prostitute who captivates
artist William Holden in
The World of Suzie Wong (1960).
She followed it the next year with the hit musical,
Flower Drum Song (1961), and
became one of Hollywood's most visible Asian actresses. Born in China
to a Chinese father and British mother, Kwan spent the 1960s commuting
between film roles in America and Europe (including the pilot for
Hawaii Five-O (1968)), but
faded from view in the West, when she returned to her native Hong Kong
in 1972 to be with her critically ill father. Divorced from her second
husband, screenwriter David Giler, and with
a young son from her first marriage to Austrian hotelier Peter Pock,
Kwan intended to stay a year, but wound up staying a decade.
As managing director of her own production company, she produced and directed dozens of commercials for the Southeast Asia market. She also acted in a spate of films made for Southeast Asian audiences, including "Fear" (1977) (aka Night Creature (1978)), which introduced her to filmmaker Norbert Meisel, who became her third husband. They returned to the US in 1979 so that her teenage son, Bernie Pock, could complete his education. He was a martial-arts master, fluent in Chinese, and became a stunt coordinator and actor before his untimely death.
After returning to the US, Kwan appeared in numerous TV series, the NBC miniseries, Noble House (1988), and the CBS made-for-TV movie, Miracle Landing (1990). She's politically active as the spokeswoman for the Asian-American Voters Coalition, and touts a beauty product, Oriental Pearl Cream, in TV spots. Kwan was at the ceremonies in Los Angeles at Hollywood Park, where the Asian community gathered to watch the handover of Hong Kong to the government of China.
As managing director of her own production company, she produced and directed dozens of commercials for the Southeast Asia market. She also acted in a spate of films made for Southeast Asian audiences, including "Fear" (1977) (aka Night Creature (1978)), which introduced her to filmmaker Norbert Meisel, who became her third husband. They returned to the US in 1979 so that her teenage son, Bernie Pock, could complete his education. He was a martial-arts master, fluent in Chinese, and became a stunt coordinator and actor before his untimely death.
After returning to the US, Kwan appeared in numerous TV series, the NBC miniseries, Noble House (1988), and the CBS made-for-TV movie, Miracle Landing (1990). She's politically active as the spokeswoman for the Asian-American Voters Coalition, and touts a beauty product, Oriental Pearl Cream, in TV spots. Kwan was at the ceremonies in Los Angeles at Hollywood Park, where the Asian community gathered to watch the handover of Hong Kong to the government of China.
