Personal Info
Birth date
1972-09-04 (52 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Also known as
Francoise Yip Fong-Wa
葉芳華
Francoise C.J. Yip
Yip Fong-Wa
叶芳华
فرانسواز ییپ
Françoise Yip
Biography
Françoise Fong-Wa Yip ( born September 4, 1972) is a Canadian actress. Her best-known roles are the redeemable bad girls in Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx and Jet Li's Black Mask. The critical and financial success of Rumble in the Bronx (and its subsequent number-one box-office bow in the United States) made Yip an instant success and garnered her two Hong Kong Film Award nominations. She continued to do movies and star in TV, but her roles were less known or temporary. The characters she plays often get killed or serve as a background character. Yip appeared in the television series Andromeda as two different characters. Her first character was arrested, and her final character was murdered. She did two movies with Jet Li, the first as a lead romantic interest in Black Mask and the second in Romeo Must Die, but this time she played a Chinese gangster motorcycle assassin killed by Jet Li and Aaliyah. An unfortunate aspect of her career is that none of the TV shows she starred in lasted beyond a full season, and if she did have a starring role in a movie it was a straight-to-video/DVD film. Her most recent appearance was in the new Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem movie, and she guest-starred in the Canadian TV show Blood Ties. Description above from the Wikipedia article Françoise Fong-Wa Yip, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Smallville
8.204
Overview:
The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.Arrow
6.826
Overview:
Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.Fringe
8.1
Overview:
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.iZombie
7.8
Overview:
A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity. But every brain she eats, she also inherits their memories and must now solve their deaths with help from the Medical examiner and a police detective.Andromeda
7.1
Overview:
Captain Dylan Hunt and his crew quest to restore a government that once presided over an extended peace and prosperity.Travelers
7.563
Overview:
Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.Sanctuary
7.2
Overview:
The adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population called Abnormals—a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans. Magnus seeks to protect this threatened phenomena as well as unlock the mysteries behind their existence.Caprica
6.934
Overview:
Set 58 years before Battlestar Galactica, Caprica follows two rival families - the Graystones and the Adamas - as they grow, compete, and thrive in the vibrant world of the peaceful 12 Colonies, living in a society close to our own. Entangled in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that will eventually lead to the creation of the Cylons, the two houses go toe-to-toe, blending action with corporate conspiracy and sexual politics.Ice
6.5
Overview:
A diamond dealer navigates the culturally diverse and treacherous world of the diamond business.Goosebumps
7.1
Overview:
A group of five high schoolers embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier of a teen named Harold Biddle – while also unearthing dark secrets from their parents' past.Wayward Pines
6.866
Overview:
Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines.Earth: Final Conflict
6.761
Overview:
Years ago, the Taelons came to Earth, offering friendship and technology to humanity. But there are those who believe the Taelons have more sinister motives.The Order
7.661
Overview:
Out to avenge his mother's death, a college student pledges a secret order and lands in a war between werewolves and practitioners of dark magic.Flash Gordon
5.5
Overview:
Flash Gordon is an American science fiction television series that debuted on Sci Fi in the United States on August 10, 2007 and continued airing new episodes through February 8, 2008. It has also appeared on the United Kingdom Sci Fi Channel and SPACE in Canada. The series was developed by Peter Hume, who served as executive producer/show runner and wrote the first and last episodes, among others.Flatland
NYR
Overview:
This Sci-Fi adventure follows the struggle between good and evil forces in an alternate universe, and what happens when their 4,000-year-long conflict crosses over into modern-day Shanghai to endanger both worlds.Blood Ties
7.576
Overview:
Blood Ties is a Canadian television series based on the Blood Books by Tanya Huff; the show was created by Peter Mohan. It is set in Toronto, Canada and has a similar premise to an earlier series also set in Toronto, Forever Knight, in which a vampire assists police in dealing with crime. It premiered in the United States on March 11, 2007 on Lifetime Television, and during fall of 2007 on Citytv and Space in Canada. In May 2008, Lifetime declined to renew the series.The Predator
5.6
Overview:
When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.The Wedding Banquet
7.2
Overview:
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
5.166
Overview:
After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring, a lone Predator arrives to "clean up" the infestation.Robocop: Prime Directives
5.5
Overview:
Ten years after the original Robocop, Delta City is city owned and operated by OCP. RoboCop finds himself nearly obsolete and his former partner, John Cable, has returned to Delta City as its new Security Commander. But slowly, new enemies arise, and Murphy and Cable begin an investigation into a mysterious villain known as the Bone Machine.Blade: Trinity
5.861
Overview:
For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of the night. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out into the daylight, where he is driven to join forces with a clan of human vampire hunters he never knew existed—The Nightstalkers. Together with Abigail and Hannibal, two deftly trained Nightstalkers, Blade follows a trail of blood to the ancient creature that is also hunting him—the original vampire, Dracula.Kung Fu
7.5
Overview:
A quarter-life crisis causes a young Chinese-American woman to drop out of college and go on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. But when she returns to find her hometown overrun with crime and corruption, she uses her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to protect her community and bring criminals to justice…all while searching for the assassin who killed her Shaolin mentor and is now targeting her.Rumble in the Bronx
6.8
Overview:
Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.Romeo Must Die
6.275
Overview:
Two warring gang families (one African-American, the other Chinese) maneuver for bragging rights to the Oakland, California, docks. Hang Sing and Trish O'Day uncover a trail of deceit that leaves most of the warring factions dead … or worse!The Pledge
6.568
Overview:
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.Everything, Everything
7.245
Overview:
A teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.Black Mask
6.2
Overview:
Tsui escapes from a super soldier project and plans to lead a peaceful life. However, when his former comrades go on a violent crime spree, he takes it upon himself to end their reign of terror.Acting
2025The Wedding Banquet as Susan
2023Goosebumps (8 Episodes) as Victoria Chen
2022Rip in Time as Dr. Zarkhai
2021Mystery 101: Deadly History as Carmela Rhee
2021Kung Fu (3 Episodes) as Diana Soong
2020A Little Christmas Charm as Sheyla Green
2019The Order (12 Episodes) as Kepler
2018The Predator as Tracking Supervisor
2018The Perfect Bride: Wedding Bells as Georgia
2017Karen Kingsbury's Maggie's Christmas Miracle as Lauren
2017Ring of Deception as Elizabeth Smith
2017Everything, Everything as Dr. Francis
2017Deadly Lessons as Beverly
2016Ice (1 Episode) as Ming
2016Travelers (1 Episode) as Judge
2016Signed, Sealed, Delivered: From the Heart as Becca
2015Wayward Pines (2 Episodes) as Sharon
2015iZombie (1 Episode) as Meg Nevins
2014The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story as Pauline Gosselaar
2014For Better or For Worse as Beverly
2013Garage Sale Mystery as Katherine Norbet
2012Arrow (2 Episodes) as The Priestess
2011Possessing Piper Rose as Margot Lace
2011Motherland as Raffi Tang
2010Caprica (2 Episodes) as Desiree Willow
2009The King of Fighters as Chizuru Kagura
2008Sanctuary (3 Episodes) as Dr. Lillian Lee
2008Fringe (1 Episode) as Dr. Rosa Oporto
2007Aliens vs Predator: Requiem as Ms. Y
2007Flash Gordon (1 Episode) as Susan Glass
2007Blood Ties (13 Episodes) as Kate Lam
2005Edison as Crow
2005The Deal as Janice Long
2005Alone in the Dark as Agent Cheung
2004Blade: Trinity as Virago
2004A Beachcombers Christmas as Constable Kelly Mah
2002The New Beachcombers as Constable Kelly Mah
2002The Dead Zone (1 Episode) as Maria
2002Flatland (22 Episodes) as Amy Li
2002Flatland as Amy Li
2001Witness to a Kill as Kirsten Lee
2001Smallville (5 Episodes) as Lia Teng
2001Cabin Pressure as Tammy
2001Mindstorm as Newscaster
2001Lunch with Charles as Cora
2001The Pledge as Bartender at Airport
2001Robocop: Prime Directives (4 Episodes) as Lexx Icon
2000Special Delivery as Flight Attendant
2000Andromeda (1, 1 Episode) as Rekel Ben-Tzion, Ashael
2000Romeo Must Die as Motorcycle Fighter
1997Web of Deception as Fion Wong
1997Earth: Final Conflict (1 Episode) as Beverly Wu
1997Enjoy Yourself Tonight as Unknown
1996Black Mask as Yeuk Laan
1996Mr. Mumble as Saeko Nogami / Yachi
1996On Fire as Francoise Yip
1996How to Meet the Lucky Stars as Francoise
1996Wild as Wai
1995Infatuation as Maggie
1995Rumble in the Bronx as Nancy