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Zoe Tay
Singaporean actress (born 1968)
In this Chinese name, the family name is Tay.
Zoe Tay (born 10 January 1968)[1] is a Singaporean actress and former model.
She has been referred to as the "Queen of Caldecott Hill" and "Ah Jie".[2][3][4]
To date, Tay has received four Star Awards for Best Actress.[5]
Early life
Tay is the sixth of seven children born to Teochew parents.
She was three when her biological mother died in an accident. Her father remarried and had a daughter with Wong Pong Chin.[6] Her father worked at a pig farm in Lim Chu Kang while her stepmother was a housewife.
Tay attended Kay Hua Primary School and later, Yuan Ching Secondary School,[7] where she completed her O-level examinations. She studied fashion design at the Baharuddin Vocational Institute.[7]
When she was 13, she thought of using "Jenny" as her English name as people pronounced her hanyu pinyin surname Zhen