Lynn Hung Doi-Lam 熊黛林
To most viewers, Lynn Hung is Chen Wing-Sin, the quiet and proud wife of Master Ip Man in the films starring Donnie Yen. But she came to cinema already famous: in the early 2000s, Lynn Hung was one of China's most sought-after models, walked the runways of Paris and appeared in music videos for stars. The road to that began in a rented Shanghai apartment, where a nineteen-year-old girl sometimes had no money to buy food.
Lynn Hung, born Xiong Dailin on October 10, 1980, comes from a family with roots in Guizhou Province, and her birthplace is given variously as Guiyang or Nanjing. Her father was a surgeon, her mother a nurse, and Lynn has a brother just over a year older than she is. When the girl was seven, the family moved to Nanjing, and it was there that she spent her school years. She fell into modeling by chance: before her university entrance exams she went downtown for study guides and got absorbed in a fashion show at a shopping mall. A teacher from a modeling school spotted her and offered to train her for free. She later enrolled at Soochow University in the fashion design and modeling department, but by some accounts never graduated – work pulled her away first.
In 1999, Lynn Hung took third place at the first all-China model contest in Nanning, and that same year she left for Shanghai on her own. The start was hard. She shared a rented flat with two other girls and earned around a thousand yuan a month, seven hundred of which went to rent, and on the toughest days she was left with a little over twenty yuan in change. Many years later, on a 2026 TV show, she recalled how at Beijing Fashion Week she was given a see-through outfit, and when she asked for a replacement, the director humiliated her in front of everyone: "Who do you think you are? You were given a chance, and you're still picky. If you don't want to work – get out." She stayed in the profession and made it: in 2002, Lynn Hung entered China's top ten models and was named best professional model of the year at China Fashion Week, and in 2004 she represented Chinese models at Paris Fashion Week.
In 2006, a fashion show brought her to Hong Kong, and she stayed on to work there. That same year, Aaron Kwok Fu-Sing chose her for the lead in his music video, and from that shoot began their romance, which the Hong Kong press covered for seven years. Cinema followed fame. Her first big role was Cheung Wing-Sing in Wilson Yip Wai-Shun's Ip Man (2008), a biographical film about the Wing Chun master, Bruce Lee's teacher. Her character, the wife who tolerates her husband's devotion to kung fu and then endures the Japanese occupation of Foshan alongside him, says little, but the film's domestic thread rests on her. The picture, starring Donnie Yen Ji-Dan, became a hit and won the Hong Kong Film Award for best film of the year. Lynn Hung returned to the role in Ip Man 2 (2010), where the master's family starts a new life in a poor postwar Hong Kong, and in Ip Man 3 (2015), where her character falls gravely ill and Ip Man chooses his wife over a fight for the first time. In the final Ip Man 4 (2019), Wing-Sing is already dead, and Lynn Hung appears only briefly, in the hero's memories.
Between these films she was most often seen in comedies. Especially popular were the New Year films released in Hong Kong for the Spring Festival: Lynn Hung appeared in three installments of the All's Well, Ends Well series – 2010, 2011 and 2012 – and later in Hotel Deluxe (2013) and Hello Babies (2014). In the mainland comedy My Sassy Girl 2 (2010), a sequel to the famous Korean film, she played one of the leads, and in Love Is ... Pyjamas (2012) she acted alongside Tony Leung Chiu-Wai. In 2011 she tried television for the first time – in the mainland series Material Queen (2011) she landed the lead role.
Lynn Hung's most serious dramatic work came in Zhang Jia-Jia's film See You Tomorrow (2016), produced by Wong Kar-Wai. Her Jiang Jie is one of the heroines whose fates intertwine in a bar whose owners help people "ferry" across their grief. For this role she received an Asian Film Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Then came the Chinese-British action film S.M.A.R.T. Chase (2017) with Orlando Bloom, in which she played Mo Ling.
After the birth of her children, Lynn Hung has been working at a calmer pace, devoting more time to television and her own brand. In the 2020s she appeared in Hong Kong and mainland series – Leverage (2022), The Stories of Lion Rock Spirit (2022), Modern Dynasty (2022) – and in several web films where she finally gets leading roles: in Lamb Game (2023) and the fantasy The Guqin Requiem (2023). In 2025 she appeared in the series Homeland Guardian (2025). She is also well known from TV shows: she was a guest on the first season of Keep Running and a mentor on China's Next Top Model.
Her romance with Aaron Kwok lasted from 2006 to 2013; in 2012, according to press reports, the couple planned to marry, but the wedding was postponed because of the illness of Lynn's father – he was diagnosed with liver cancer. In March 2013, shortly after her father's death, she showed a ring on her little finger on social media, and everyone took it as a hint of a breakup; when journalists asked her about it, she confirmed it. In 2014, Lynn Hung began a romance with Ken Kwok, the younger brother of actress Kenix Kwok. In March 2016 he proposed to her right at a corporate banquet, and on 27 October of that same year they registered their marriage in Hong Kong. In April 2018, Lynn Hung gave birth to twin daughters, Kaylor and Lyvia.
