Best Actress 2002 Chinese Odyssey 2002 Golden Melody Awards Best Female Mandarin Artist 2004 To Love Other Awards Stockholm Film Festival Best Actress 1994 Chungking Express Faye Wong (王菲) (born August 8, 1969) is a Chinese singer-songwriter and actress. Early in her career she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong (王靖雯). Born in Beijing, she moved to Hong Kong in 1987 and rose to stardom in the early 1990s by singing Cantonese ballads. Since 1995 she recorded mostly in her native Mandarin and created her own style by combining alternative music with mainstream Chinese pop. In 2000 she was recognized by Guinness World Records as the Best Selling Canto-Pop Female. Following her second marriage in 2005 she withdrew from the limelight, but returned to the stage in 2010 amidst immense interest in the Sinosphere..