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Zoe Tay

Zoe Tay

Known For Acting
Birthday Jan 10, 1968 (57)
Birthplace Singapore
Popularity 0.2 (history)
Updated Aug 05, 2024
Entry Date Apr 26, 2024
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Biography

Zoe Tay is a Singaporean actress , a former model and was named as "Queen of Caldecott Hill" by local media and fellow referred to as "Ah Jie" (senior actress) due to her status. Tay started out as a model at the age of 16. In 1987, she was named Model of The Year. After Tay was crowned champion of ... the inaugural Star Search in 1988, she was offered a 3-year contract with the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), now known as Mediacorp. While Tay had initially disliked acting, she began feeling passionate for her craft after her role in Crime and Passion in 1991. Her breakthrough performance as a materialistic young woman in Pretty Faces catapulted her into stardom. Her popularity was affirmed with a Top 10 Most Popular Female Artiste Award at the Star Awards every year for ten consecutive years since its inception in 1994. In 1996, Zoe won the Best Actress award for her role in The Golden Pillow at the annual Star Awards. In 2004, she was the first actress to have been awarded the prestigious All-Time Favourite Artiste . Other than television dramas, Tay also forayed into films. In 2010, she starred opposite Hong Kong actor Kenny Ho in Love Cuts, playing the role of a terminally ill woman who has breast cancer. In 2013, she appeared in her first fully English-speaking role in Mister John with Irish star Aidan Gillen. Tay has collaborated with many artistes in her various projects. Her on-screen chemistry with Li Nanxing in The Unbeatables and other serials has put them in the list of the Top 5 Best Onscreen Couples at the Star Awards 25th Drama Anniversary show. In 2015, she collaborated for the first time with Huang Biren, in The Dream Makers II. Due to her contributions to the television industry in Singapore, a wax figurine was modelled after her by Madame Tussauds Singapore, and is currently on display in the museum. Tay won her second Best Actress at the Star Awards 2017 for You Can Be an Angel 2, 21 years after her first. In an interview, she revealed that after her first win in 1996, she had contemplated quitting as she felt "strangely empty and lost". Instead, she enrolled in an acting class in New York, an experience which transformed her to "someone who is focused on improving my acting and who can be exemplary to other actors." Guiding her are three Chinese words from her father: 毅力 or perseverance, 耐力 or endurance , 勇气 or courage. In Star Awards 2019, Tay won her third Best Actress for the drama, A Million Dollar Dream.

Known For

Filmography

Mister John

Mister John

2013

as Kim Devine

Liang Po Po: The Movie

Liang Po Po: The Movie

1999

as Cameo

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

All is Well

as Zhang Bi Zhu

Episodes: 86

First Aired: Mar 01, 2019

The Unbeatables

as Luo Qi-Fang

Episodes: 80

First Aired: Nov 04, 1993

The Golden Pillow

as Zhou Xiaodan

Episodes: 40

First Aired: Nov 21, 1995

My Guardian Angels

as Mandy

Episodes: 30

First Aired: Apr 06, 2020

The Ultimatum

as Ye Yu-Chen

Episodes: 30

First Aired: May 27, 2009

Pretty Faces

as Bobo Wu

Episodes: 30

First Aired: Jan 01, 1991

Hero

as Deborah

Episodes: 30

First Aired: Nov 22, 2016

The Teochew Family

as Cai Chong-mei

Episodes: 30

First Aired: Aug 08, 1995

出人头地

as 叶蓓

Episodes: 30

First Aired: Mar 20, 1990

The New Adventure of Wisely

as Bai Su

Episodes: 30

First Aired: Sep 15, 1998

Devotion

as Liu Zhao Di

Episodes: 25

First Aired: Jun 28, 2011

Strange Encounters

as Zhu Xiu Juan

Episodes: 25

First Aired: Oct 26, 1987

Terms of Endearment

as Shu Qing

Episodes: 25

First Aired: Jan 01, 1992

My One and Only

as Ma Limin

Episodes: 24

First Aired: Jul 27, 2023

A Million Dollar Dream

as Hu Jiao Fen

Episodes: 20

First Aired: Apr 09, 2018

You Can Be an Angel

as Wang Ruojun

Episodes: 20

First Aired: May 05, 2015

VIC

as Zoe

Episodes: 19

First Aired: Apr 19, 2018

窈窕淑女

as 傅桂花

Episodes: 18

First Aired: Jan 01, 1988

The Return of the Condor Heroes

as Lu Erniang

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Jun 02, 1998

Emerald Hill

as Liu Xiuniang

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Mar 17, 2025

The Dream Makers

as Zhou Wei Yun

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 03, 2015

How Are You?

as Dr. Michelle Soong

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 04, 2019

Eat Already?

as Dr. Tay

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 09, 2016

A Million Treasures

as Bai Xing Xing

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 04, 2006

Double Bonus

as Mei Feng

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 03, 2012

Baby Boom

as Kim

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 01, 2003

La Femme

as Fang Bao Yu

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jun 02, 2008

Man at Forty

as Jian Jie

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 17, 2004

The Last Swordsman

as Hong Xiu

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 01, 1991

My Mighty-in-Laws

as Yao Mei Mei

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 17, 2004

Lost Soul

as Pian Pian

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 01, 1999

My Home Affairs

as Zhang Xiao Tong

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 01, 2000

While We Are Young

as Fang Ting

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 06, 2017

The Stratagem

as Ye Kai Shuang

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 01, 2001

A Different Life

as Pan Gui Kai

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 01, 1996

The Millennium Bug

as Huang Si Jie

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 01, 1999

The Dream Makers

Episodes: 30

First Aired: Jun 24, 2013

Carlsberg Lunar New Year Variety Show 2010

Episodes: 5

First Aired: Jan 17, 2010

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