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Janice Koh
许优美
Nominated Member of Parliament
In office
14 February 2012 – 31 July 2014
Personal details
Born (1973-12-10) 10 December 1973 (age 50)
Singapore
SpouseLionel Yeo
Children2
Alma materGoldsmiths College
National University of Singapore
OccupationActress, politician
Websitehttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Janice-Koh
Janice Koh
Simplified Chinese许优美

Janice Koh (born December 10, 1973) is a Singaporean actress and a former Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore.

Education

Koh had her secondary school education at Singapore Chinese Girls' School. She later graduated from the Theatre Studies and Drama programme at Victoria Junior College and the National University of Singapore with an Honours degree in Theatre Studies. She also has a master's degree in Theatre with Distinction from Goldsmiths College, London.[1]

Career

On television, Koh is well known for her role as the ambitious lawyer Angela Ang on the MediaCorp Channel 5 legal drama The Pupil. Her performance earned her an Asian Television Awards 2010 nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. Other projects include Fighting Spiders and Chase for Channel 5 and the award-winning Singapore Short Story Project. More recently, she played the quirky mom of Amos Lee in Okto’s The Dairy of Amos Lee.

A familiar face in the theatre scene, Koh won the coveted Life! Theatre Award for Best Actress in 2003 for her performance as Catherine in David Auburn's Proof and received a Life! Theatre Award Best Actress nomination in 2008 for her role in Ovidia Yu’s acclaimed play Hitting (On) Women. Recent work include Pangdemonium’s Swimming with Sharks, Alfian Sa'at’s sold-out play Cooling Off Day by W!LD RICE, Tan Tarn How's critically acclaimed Fear of Writing,《我爱阿爱》 by The Theatre Practice, Poop by The Finger Players, which was also nominated for the Life! Theatre Best Ensemble Award, The Crab Flower Club by Toy Factory, 120 and Diaspora by TheatreWorks.

Internationally, Koh has toured with a number of productions to major venues and festivals in Europe and Asia, including The King Lear Project to the Kunsten Festival des Arts in Brussels and TheatreWorks' Diaspora at the Edinburgh International Festival.[2]

Koh made her international acting debut in the rom-com Crazy Rich Asians, directed by Jon M. Chu, starring Constance Wu and Henry Golding, and based on the critically-acclaimed novel of the same title by Kevin Kwan. Filming was done on location in both Malaysia and Singapore, where much of the first of three books in the series is based. The film was released globally in 2018, by Warner Bros.

Politics

In 2012, Koh was selected to be one of nine new Nominated Member of Parliament (NMPs) in Singapore.[3][4] She was nominated by the Arts community and was chosen from 47 eligible candidates. Koh is known for her support of the Singaporean arts scene,[5] and her desire for transparency in regards to the MDA's censorship rulings.[6]

Personal life

Koh is married to Lionel Yeo and they have two sons.[7]

In later July 2022, Koh was diagnosed with tongue cancer and received treatment for it.[7]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2004 Love Poetry Dana TV movie
2013 Mister John Lek
2018 Crazy Rich Asians Felicity Young [7]

Television

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2010 Fighting Spiders Mabel Lee [7]
2010–2011 The Pupil Angela Ang [7]
2013 C.L.I.F. 2 Chen Yuqi
2020 Code of Law Angela Ang Season 5

Theatre

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
1998 Descendants of the Eunuch Lead
2003 Proof Catherine
Jointly & Severably Zee
2005 Skylight Kyra Hollis
Lovepuke Louise
Quills Mdm Royer-Collard
2006 Diaspora Main Ensemble
2009 The Crabflower Club Lead
2012 Swimming with Sharks Lead
Cooling Off Day Lead
2013 Rabbit Hole Lead

Awards

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Janice Koh.

References

  1. ^ "Fly Entertainment - Janice Koh". Archived from the original on September 4, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
  2. ^ "Fly Entertainment - Janice Koh". Fly Entertainment. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  3. ^ "Member's Profile". Parliament of Singapore. Archived from the original on 2012-12-01. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
  4. ^ Hoe, Yeen Nie; Musfirah, Hetty (2 February 2012). "Nine Nominated MPs selected". Archived from the original on 17 October 2012.
  5. ^ "NMP Janice Koh impresses many with her passionate maiden speech - inSing.com". Archived from the original on 2012-03-05. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
  6. ^ "Janice Koh: 'Censorship process must be transparent' - inSing.com". Archived from the original on 2013-12-24. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Actress and ex-NMP Janice Koh reveals battle with tongue cancer". AsiaOne. 2022-11-14. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
  8. ^ "Six Degrees". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
  9. ^ "2021 Nominees". Asian Television Awards. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  10. ^ Loh, Genevieve Sarah (8 June 2022). "Singaporean actress Janice Koh awarded knighthood by French government". CNA Lifestyle. Retrieved 8 June 2022.

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