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{{Short description|Hong Kong actress}}
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| education          = [[Holy Angels Canossian School]] <br> [[St. Mary's Canossian College]]
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'''Amy Fan Yik Man''' (born 28 May 1971) is a Hong Kong–based actress.
== Biography ==
Born on 28 May 1971 in Hong Kong, Fan grew up in a single-parent family after her parents divorced. Her stepfather is a Japanese engineer. Fan attend [[Holy Angels Canossian School]] and [[St. Mary's Canossian College]]. To have her able to communicate with him in Japanese, her stepfather sent her to study at the Japanese Language School of the [[Tokyo International University]] for two years.
Fan began her acting career in commercials. In 1991, she entered the [[Miss Hong Kong]] pageant and she won the Miss Photogenic award, placing 5th overall. After the pageant, Fan joined TVB and took part in numerous drama series.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.misshongkongpageant.com/nowthen4.htm|title=Miss Hong Kong Now & Then|website=www.misshongkongpageant.com|access-date=2018-04-09}}</ref>
Fan suffered from sudden hair loss for four years from 1991 to 1994.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.scmp.com/article/518720/bald-and-beautiful-gals-spot-bother|title=The bald and the beautiful - a gal's spot of bother|work=South China Morning Post|access-date=2018-04-09|language=en}}</ref> Later in 1996, she left TVB for [[Mainland China]], where she was cast in the movie ''Tai Chi Master'' on the same year. She would often return to Hong Kong due to her frequent hospitalisation and also that the living environment in China was average. She joined [[Asia Television|ATV]] from 2007 to November 2009 before focusing her acting career in China again. She returned to work in TVB in March 2012. In 2022 she was one of the 12 contestants and the winner of the second season of TVB's Variety Show: Dub of War.
==Personal life==
She currently lives with her two pomeranian dogs, Kuma and Hana in Hong Kong. In 2013, she was appointed by close friend and veteran actor [[Gordon Liu]] as his new legal guardian of his assets and Fan assisted Liu with managing his affairs as he has physical limitations on his health issues.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amy Fan Received No Financial Benefits in Being Gordon Liu's Guardian|url=https://www.jaynestars.com/news/amy-fan-received-no-financial-benefits-in-being-gordon-lius-guardian/|access-date=2021-01-16|website=JayneStars.com|language=en}}</ref>
== Filmography ==
=== Television ===
* ''Victory'' (1994)<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Hong Kong Filmography, 1977–1997: A Reference Guide to 1,100 Films Produced by British Hong Kong Studios|last=Charles|first=John|publisher=McFarland|year=2009|pages=333}}</ref>
* ''[[Highs and Lows]]'' (2012)
* [[:zh:仁心解碼II|''A Great Way To Care II'']] (2013)
* ''[[Karma Rider]]'' (2013)
* ''[[Outbound Love]]'' (2014)
* ''[[ICAC Investigators 2014]]'' (2014)
* ''[[Rear Mirror]]'' (2015)
* [[Momentary Lapse of Reason (TV series)|''Momentary Lapse of Reason'']] (2015)
* [[Lord of Shanghai (TV series)|''Lord of Shanghai'']] (2015)
* ''[[The Last Healer in Forbidden City]]'' (2016)
* ''[[Come Home Love (series 2)]]'' (2016)
* ''[[My Dangerous Mafia Retirement Plan]]'' (2016)
* [[:zh:財神駕到|''May Fortune Smile On You'']] (2017)
* ''[[Married But Available]]'' (2017)
* ''[[The No No Girl]]'' (2017)
* [[:zh:雜警奇兵|''Nothing Special Force'']] (2017)
* ''[[Come Home Love: Lo and Behold]]'' (2017-present)
* ''[[My Ages Apart]]'' (2017-2018)
* [[:zh:波士早晨|''Watch Out Boss'']] (2018)
* [[:zh:果欄中的江湖大嫂|''Apple-colada'']] (2018)
* [[:zh:街坊財爺|''My Life As Loan Shark'']] (2019)
* [[:zh:殺手 (無綫電視劇)|''Death By Zero'']] (2020)
=== Variety Show ===
* [[:zh:好聲好戲|Dub of War]] (2022)
=== Films ===
* ''All About Love'' (2010)
* ''I Love Hong Kong 2013'' (2013)
* ''[[Office (2015 Hong Kong film)|Office]]'' (2015)
<ref>[http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=10836&display_set=eng Amy Fan at hkmdb.com]</ref>
<ref>[http://chinesemov.com/actors/Amy%20Fan.html Amy Fan at chinesemov.com]</ref>
=== Dubbing ===
* Dub of War's Second Season's Graduation Project: [[Spider-Man: No Way Home]] (2022) -  [[May Parker (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|May Parker]]  <ref>{{Cite web |title=【娛樂熱話】 《好聲好戲》第二屆畢業作品《蜘蛛俠：不戰無歸》 畢業藝員聲演荷里活猛片 |url=http://tvbweekly.com/c/details.asp?page=entertainment&subid=62033&fbclid=IwAR0cDJk9-tX9EuK-34tW3xGiJt-SZ4n7CS_kh7BBnIkHjNAc2enHK0zEhQc |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=tvbweekly.com}}</ref>
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[[Category:1971 births]]
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[[Category:20th-century beauty pageant contestants]]
[[Category:Hong Kong film actresses]]
[[Category:Hong Kong television actresses]]
[[Category:20th-century Hong Kong actresses]]
[[Category:21st-century Hong Kong actresses]]
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