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Jeanette Lin Tsui: meet Kenneth Tsang siblings

Jeanette was born in Shanghai but moved to Hong Kong with her family in 1949 to attend St. Stephen’s College. She joined Liberty Film at the age of seventeen.

Jeanette Lin was one of Hong Kong’s most well-known Mandarin actresses in the 1950s and 1960s, playing in a variety of films ranging from tearjerkers to James Bond rip-offs.

Jeanette Lin Tsui: meet Kenneth Tsang siblings

Tsang returned to Hong Kong in the early Tsang returned to Hong Kong as an architect in the early 1960s, but found the work uninteresting. Jeanette Lin, Tsang’s two-year younger sister, was a film star at the time and gave Tsang a slew of industry connections that aided his acting career.

Tsang made his film debut at the age of 16 in The Feud (1955), followed by Who Isn’t Romantic? (1956) the 1960s as an architect but was bored by the work.

His younger sister by 2 years, Jeanette Lin, was a film star at the time and provided Tsang with several connections in the industry which boosted his acting career.