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Charmaine Yu

This is the 84th instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades.
Josie Ho Chiu-yee has spent her career dismantling assumptions and forging her own identity through unbridled creativity.
When it came to pursuing a music career, the daughter of the late Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho Hung-sun rejected the easy path of Cantopop ballads and blockbuster fluff, instead favouring 1980s-inspired punk rock and genre movies.
Today, at age 51, Josie Ho is perhaps best known for championing independent cinema – 20 years ago, she founded the production company 852 Films to back edgy projects spanning from Hong Kong to Hollywood.
“I needed to make sure I knew how much I could earn by myself, with my own hands. That’s why I kept working so hard,” Ho told the South China Morning Post’s PostMag in 2014. “It’s very important because one day those things might be gone and you might have to come out and make a living yourself.”

Escaping the gilded cage
Ho was born in 1974 into a massive business empire centred on gaming, real estate, shipping and hospitality in Macau and Hong Kong. She is one of 17 children of Stanley Ho, who was one of Asia’s richest men with a personal fortune estimated at HK$50 billion upon his retirement in 2018. Her mother was Lucina Laam King-ying.
A rebellious youngster, Josie often sneaked out of school to watch films at the cinema with friends and reportedly began clubbing at age 12. Unsurprisingly, she was drawn to the performing arts rather than the family business.
“Even at eight years old I dreamed about being a singer,” she told PostMag. “I was hanging around with my sister [Pansy Ho Chiu-king] a lot and she happened to have a lot of popular singers as friends, like Anita Mui [Yim-fong] and Danny Chan [Pak-keung].”
Mui, in particular, became Josie Ho’s hero; seeing a modern, independent woman thrive in the industry inspired her to rebel against the traditional “ladylike” expectations of her wealthy background.

But her father was not pleased when it came out that Ho wanted to join the entertainment industry. The turning point came when her singing at his Macau beauty pageant attracted the attention of Virgin Records. To prevent Ho from being sent back to university in Los Angeles, Pansy orchestrated a dinner to convince their father to support her showbiz ambitions.
“Pansy was the only one in the family who didn’t think I was crazy,” Ho said in a 2008 New York Times interview. “She knows that if I don’t do this, I would not fit in anywhere else. It is my way to express myself.”
Ho signed her first music contract in her father’s office when she was 18. In 1994, she released her debut album, Rebel, with Capital Artists. Knowing her family name would follow her, she chose a self-referential title for her 1996 follow-up, Ho Ka Suk Lui (“The lady of the Ho family”).

A shift to the alternative
Ho’s tenure with Capital Artists was short-lived; in 1997, she was reportedly dropped for singing off-key during a major performance. Amid a subsequent music hiatus filled with clubbing, she befriended influential hip-hop group LMF and met hip-hop artist Conroy Chan Chi-chung, whom she would later marry.
These connections influenced her musical trajectory. When she returned in 2003 with her album Sickid, she showed her reverence for rock music by leaning into a darker, noisier sound. In the late 2000s, she formed the alternative rock band Josie and The Uni Boys, which injected elements of electronic and emo music into her repertoire.
“Now I don’t care about the market,” she told the SCMP in 2008. “I just do what I want to do in music. I think rock means free spirit. Rock music doesn’t necessarily have to be very loud or angry, but it has to be individualistic and personal.”

Ho also pursued acting, making her feature film debut in 1994. Her breakout role came in the 1999 action thriller Purple Storm, in which she played a Khmer Rouge militant and performed her own stunts. Her star rose higher four years later when she played a prostitute in the sex comedy Naked Ambition (2003), a role that earned her the best supporting actress prize at the 2004 Hong Kong Film Awards.
The 2004 lesbian drama Butterfly, in which she played a married teacher navigating repressed desires, earned her a best actress nod at the 2005 Golden Bauhinia Awards. She then played the daughter of a mobster (Tony Leung Ka-fai) in The Drummer, which in 2008 became the first Hong Kong production to compete at the Sundance Film Festival.
Despite proving herself as a serious actor, Ho has admitted to feeling underrated and has expressed frustration that her family’s high profile often overshadowed her artistic efforts. She even trained with Zuni Icosahedron, an experimental theatre company in Hong Kong, to broaden her skills.

Taking control behind the lens
In 2006, she co-founded the production company 852 Films with Chan and her manager, Andrew Ooi. The goal was to back international indie films and generate the complex roles she felt the mainstream industry was unwilling to offer her.
The company’s first production, the 2010 slasher Dream Home, remains one of the most disturbingly gruesome films in contemporary Hong Kong cinema. Ho and Chan were inspired to make it after watching the outrageously gory cult classic Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991).
Directed by Pang Ho-cheung, Dream Home earned Ho a best actress nomination at the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards and the best actress prize at Spain’s Sitges Film Festival for her role as a woman who goes on a killing spree to lower local property values and secure a flat.

She later merged her interests in filmmaking and music by producing Finding Bliss: Fire and Ice (2019), a documentary that followed Josie and The Uni Boys on a trip to the rugged landscapes of Iceland.
Around the same time Josie was recognised with a lifetime achievement award at the 2022 Hawaii International Film Festival, Chan suffered a near-fatal ruptured aorta. Josie halted her work commitments to serve as his primary carer during a prolonged recovery.
An uncompromising path
More recently, she has returned to nurture her dual loves for music and cinema. In February 2025, she headlined the Dragon Rock Concert in London, leading Josie and The Uni Boys in a showcase of Hong Kong rock.
On the filmmaking front, she has two titles ready to launch: director Mike Figgis’ psychological thriller Mother Tongue, in which she plays an acclaimed actress attempting to reconnect with a daughter she gave away; and The Mage, a Hong Kong crime/horror movie directed by Danny Pang Fat in which she also stars.

For decades, she has received occasional advice from her siblings to retire from entertainment. But whether defying expectations surrounding her family’s business empire or resisting the 1990s pop machine, her stance remains uncompromising: retreating is not an option.
As she made clear to Edmund Lee, now the SCMP’s film editor, in a 2010 interview, her life’s objective has always been “to be an outstanding performer”.
“If I weren’t a performer, there would be no point of me living,” she added. “I’d be living dead, a zombie. I hope that when I’m old, people will only say one thing: ‘I remember a certain scene of a certain movie, in which that Josie Ho touched me very deeply.’ I can then die without regrets.”
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Cheng pictured in 1988. Photo: SCMP

Cheng at a performance in 1993. Photo: SCMP

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Cheng (right) in a still from “Lost Love” (2023).

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Cheng pictured in 1996. Photo: SCMP

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Chung and her husband, Mike Chu, in 1992. Photo: SCMP

Chung pursued a long-standing interest in photography. Photo: Handout

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Chung at an interview with the Post in 2014. Photo: SCMP

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Lau Ching-wan at an interview with the Post in 2009. Often cast to play the tough guy, Lau has shown his talent for romance and comedy too, and is a 14-time best actor winner in various film awards shows. Photo: SCMP

Lau at an interview with the Post in 1996. Photo: SCMP

Lau and Anita Yuen in a still from “C’est la vie, mon cheri” (1993).

Lau at the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards in 2023, where he won best actor for a third time. Photo: Sam Tsang/SCMP

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Lau at the 18th Hong Kong Film Awards with his wife, Amy Kwok, in 1999. Photo: SCMP

ProfileHow Josie Ho rejected her billionaire heiress destiny for punk rock and indie filmmaking

Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho’s eighth child has built her own legacy as a musician, award-winning actress and movie producer

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Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho’s eighth child has built her own legacy as a musician, award-winning actress and movie producer