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also made an impression and garnered her a Hong Kong Film Award nomination. Her career took a sharp turn when she played the role of a "homewrecker" in a hugely popular television series. The role was ill-received and the image of seductress came to be closely associated with Chow, perhaps further
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One of Chow's acting credits is a TV series filmed in mid-2004, but did not air until
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