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Françoise Yip

Actor • Born 1972

Françoise Yip

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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...

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Smallville posterSmallvilleSeries • 2001Arrow posterArrowSeries • 2012Fringe posterFringeSeries • 2008Earth: Final Conflict posterEarth: Final ConflictSeries • 1997Andromeda posterAndromedaSeries • 2000iZombie posteriZombieSeries • 2015The Dead Zone posterThe Dead ZoneSeries • 2002Millennium posterMillenniumSeries • 1996Travelers posterTravelersSeries • 2016Sanctuary posterSanctuarySeries • 2008Goosebumps posterGoosebumpsSeries • 2023Wayward Pines posterWayward PinesSeries • 2015Caprica posterCapricaSeries • 2010The Order posterThe OrderSeries • 2019Blood Ties posterBlood TiesSeries • 2007Ice posterIceSeries • 2016The Predator posterThe PredatorMovie • 2018Men in Trees posterMen in TreesSeries • 2006Kung Fu posterKung FuSeries • 2021Aliens vs Predator: Requiem posterAliens vs Predator: RequiemMovie • 2007Blade: Trinity posterBlade: TrinityMovie • 2004Flash Gordon posterFlash GordonSeries • 2007Romeo Must Die posterRomeo Must DieMovie • 2000Rumble in the Bronx posterRumble in the BronxMovie • 1995