Zoe Tay

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 3year 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 AllTime 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 Englishspeaking role in Mister John with Irish star Aidan Gillen Tay has collaborated with many artistes in her various projects Her onscreen 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