Beatrice Hsu
Beatrice Hsu | |||||||
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Born | 13 November 1978 Taipei, Taiwan | ||||||
Died | 28 January 2007 Taichung, Taiwan | (aged 28)||||||
Occupation(s) | Actress, singer | ||||||
Years active | 2001–2007 | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 许玮伦 | ||||||
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Musical career | |||||||
Also known as | Xu Weilun | ||||||
Instrument(s) | Piano, Harp, Drums, Guitar, Erhu, Konghou | ||||||
Website | www |
Beatrice Hsu Wei-lun traditional Chinese:
Career
[edit]Hsu was a well-known actress from Taiwan and had been acting for about 5 years. She started her career as a model, and was a trained musician from a young age as she could play the piano and but her charm and beauty were quickly noticed by television producers. She started acting while in university, and gradually gaining her fame and popularity. She was not only known for her looks, but her lovable performances in acting as well. She also co-starred in a few super hit MVs and was a very popular figure in television commercials in Taiwan.
She was first noticed by the press for her role in a television commercial for the convenience store chain 7-Eleven, and later for her role in the GTV drama True Love 18 (
She was first noticed by audience for her brief appearance in the popular TV drama "Meteor Garden". Her first popular leading role was the Taiwan TV drama "Love Storm" where she starred with her ex-boyfriend Vic Chou, one of the members of F4.
She was the girlfriend of actor-singer Lee Wei before being linked with Vic Chou in 2004.[1] Her relationship with Zhou did not last and ended in 2005 due to his talent company's "no-relationship clause". She starred in 2005 Taiwan hit TV drama "Express Boy" (
Hsu was also a talented musician, capable of playing piano, harp, konghou (Chinese harp), guitar, drums, and erhu. She had a duet with Gary Cao in the song Freedom for the Nine-Ball TV drama OST in 2004. She is also fluent in Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, English and French (she majored in French at university).
Death and memorial
[edit]Hsu was involved in a fatal accident on the Taichung stretch of Taiwan's National Highway No. 1 at 23:15 on 26 January 2007, while travelling with her assistant to Nantou for the filming of Daughter of the Sun (Traditional Chinese:
Having come to a halt, and thinking that it was safe, Hsu unbuckled her seat belt before the Mini Cooper's rear-end was hit by a truck. When the collision occurred, only the passenger side's airbag was deployed. The front airbag failed to deploy (airbags are not designed to deploy in rear impact collision). Contrary to witness' testimony, her assistant denied being the driver at the time of the accident. She developed post-traumatic hydrocephalus in which the increased pressure crushed the brainstem.
Despite 43 hours of emergency treatment, her heartbeat stopped at 17:09 and she died on 28 January 2007, at 19:37 local time, leaving behind her father, mother and a younger brother.[3]
A posthumous memorial concert was held in her memory on 9 February 2007, fulfilling Hsu's dream of holding her own concert, a day after her body was cremated.[4]
Despite her passing, Lee Wei, Cyndi Wang and Rainie Yang continues to send birthday messages on social media on her birthday every year.[citation needed]
Filmography
[edit]Television series
[edit]- (2007, CTS) Daughter of the Sun
太陽 的 女兒 - (2007, CTS) Fly with Me
想 飛 - (2005, CTV) Double Jade Legend
雙璧 傳說 - (2005, TVBS-G) Express Boy
惡 男 宅 急電 [5] - (2004, GTV) Nine-Bal
撞球 小 子 - (2004, TTV) Scent of Love
戀 香 cameo - (2003, CTV) The Only in the World
天下 無雙 - (2003, CTS) Love Storm
狂 愛 龍 捲 風 cameo - (2002, CTS) Secretly Loving You 偷偷
愛 上 你 - (2002, GTV) True Love 18
十 八 歲 的 約定 - (2001, CTS) Meteor Garden I
流星 花園 cameo
Film
[edit]- (2002) Victor U-Turn 180 degrees
- (2003) Turn Left, Turn Right
向 左 走 ·向 右 走 cameo - (2005) Slap the Monkey
二 千 三 百 萬 種 死 法 [1]
Music video
[edit]- (2002) Sammi Cheng, Willing 〈捨得〉
- (2001) Victor Huang
品 冠 , Responsibility of Being Fond Of You 〈疼你的 責任 〉 - (2001) Leehom Wang, Sense Of Safe 〈
安全 感 〉 - (2001) Nicholas Tse 〈慌〉, Fluster
- (2001) Eason Chan, King of Karaoke Songs 〈K
歌 之 王 〉 - (2001) Jacky Wu,
吳 宗 憲 , Strangers, Who Love Me? 〈陌生人 、誰 愛 我 〉 - (2001) MAYDAY, Will You? 〈
好 不 好 〉 - (2000) Maggie Chiang, Lonely Flight〈
寂寞 飛行 〉
Music
[edit]- (2004) Freedom – Nine-Ball OST duet
Books
[edit]許 瑋倫蛋蛋日記 2004/7/7 ISBN 957-29637-1-6許 瑋倫的 美麗 7堂 課 2006/2/27 ISBN 986-133-136-0
References
[edit]- ^ Taiwan actress critically injured
- ^ "Taiwan Quick Take, Actress Beatrice Hsu dies". Taipei Times. 30 January 2007. Retrieved 28 December 2007.
- ^ "Taiwan News, Young actress dies in hospital from severe injuries after crash". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2007.
- ^ "Farewell concert honors actress Hsu". China Post. 10 February 2007. Retrieved 18 December 2007.
- ^ "STAR". TVBS. Archived from the original on 2 February 2007. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
External links
[edit]- (in Chinese) Official site[permanent dead link]
- Beatrice Hsu at IMDb
- Beatrice Hsu at the Hong Kong Movie Database