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Angela Mao, More than just a pretty face She's a Lady Whirlwind.
Angela Mao Ying, Daugter of Mao Yung Kang, a Peking Opera star was born in Taiwan in September 20, 1950. Like many of her colleagues in Kung Fu Cinema, Mao was an artist with the Peking opera actress before becoming the most famous Kung Fu woman in cinema. As a child she had studied dance and ballet and attended The Fu Sheng or Lu Kwan Peking Opera school Peking Opera school in 1958. Other Kung Fu stars that came out of Fu Sheng Peking Opera school include Chiang Sheng and Philip Kwok, two of the Venoms in "
The Five Deadly Venoms
"; Robert Tai from "Shaolin vs Ninja" and "The Brave Archer"; and James Tien Chun from the Bruce Lee's movies "
The Big Boss
", and "
The Chinese Connection
".
She quickly became a favorite of his starring in other movies like "Hapkido", and "Lady Whirlwind" Along with those 2 movies, Angela's best movies are generally considered to be "Dance of Death", "The Tournament", "Broken Oath", "Hapkido" "Stoner", "When Taekwando Strikes", "Back Alley Princess", and "Swift Shaolin Boxer". In 1973 Angela Mao made her International film debut in " Enter the Dragon " getting to perform as Bruce Lee's sister. In 1989 at the age of 30, Angela married her longtime boyfriend Kelly Lau and retired from Kung Fu movies. An interesting tidbit is that she was presented with an Honorary second degree black belt in Hapkido due to her movies helping with world wide recognition of Hapkido. What woman can say she is The Martial Arts representitive of a specific style. Angela Mao may not be the first woman to perform martial arts in Kung Fu Movie History but she is certainly credited now to be the First Lady of Kung Fu. And she looks beautiful doing it! OTHER PAGES YOU WILL LOVE:
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Angela Mao studied Hapkido at a young age as well as many different styles of martial arts. Huang Feng, the Golden Harvest director who gave shots to Famous Kung Fu stars