Françoise Yip

Biography

Françoise Fong-Wa Yip is a Canadian actress. Yip was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and was raised in Toronto, Ontario. Her father is a Canadian of Chinese descent and her mother is French-Canadian.

Her best-known roles are the redeemable bad girls in Jackie Chan’s Rumble in the Bronx and Jet Li’s Black Mask. Yip appeared in the television series Andromeda as two different characters. She did two movies with Jet Li, the first as a lead romantic interest in Black Mask and the second in Romeo Must Die, where she played a Chinese gangster motorcycle assassin killed by Jet Li and Aaliyah. She appeared in the film Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, and guest-starred in the Canadian TV show Blood Ties.