She grew up in Brossard, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, with and as mother-tongues. She later learned , and .
While studying for a career in the tourism industry at the Université du Québec à Montréal , she entered and won the "Miss Chinese Montreal" contest in 1992. She then went to Hong Kong, in her first trip away from home, to participate in the Miss Chinese International pageant in January 1993, in which she won despite not knowing a single Chinese word. This opened doors for her to launch her acting career there, despite not speaking a word of Cantonese at the time, and despite her extremely limited acting experience . She had to choose between acting in Hong Kong and becoming the weather-forecast presenter at Société Radio-Canada, the French-language government television network in Canada.
A role in ''The Bride with White Hair 2'' brought her instant recognition, and she became a well-known star in Chinese-language popular culture, acting in a large number of films including some films starring Stephen Chow, as well as ''The Bodyguard from Beijing'' starring Jet Li. She was married for a time to Glen Ross, and gave birth to daughter in Montreal in the middle of the 1998 Ice Storm. Christy and Ross were divorced in 2002, but remain on good terms. Christy has sole custody of Yasmine.
Giving birth to Yasmine temporarily had a negative effect on her career because of a stereotypical impression that a mother could not function as a sex symbol, but her career recovered in 2000. More recently, she had roles in '''' and Jackie Chan's movie ''The Medallion''. She added to her language repertoire when she starred in Nonzee Nimibutr's 2001 film ''Jan Dara''. Singapore FHM magazine voted her the "Sexiest Woman in Asia" in 2000.
In August 2003, Christy remarried to a music producer named Jon in Beijing.
She is also known to be a fan of English football club .
Despite her success, she remains mostly unknown in Quebec, where she was born and grew up, because she has done most of her film work in Cantonese.
Christy was recently seen at the 2007 Sina Awards and is currently working on an album.
Filmography
* ''Astonishing'' - Mandy
* '''' - Jane Lam, aka Little Britney
* ''Tian Long Ba Bu'' - Ming, Kang
* ''The Medallion'' - Charlotte Watson
* '''' - Pema
* ''Jan Dara'' - Khun Boonlueang
* ''Asian Charlie's Angels''
* ''Gen-X Cops 2'' - Inspector Chung
* ''Conman in Tokyo'' - Banana
* ''Tau mung'' - Sophia
* ''Troublesome Night'' - Mrs. To
* ''All's Well, Ends Well 1997'' - Little Shien
* '''97 Aces Go Places'' - Li Lai-Shen
* ''God of Cookery'' - High School Fantasy Girl
* ''Tai Chi Boxer'' - Rose
* ''Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star'' - Christie Lee/Angel of Nine Heavens
* ''The Red Wolf'' - Lai
* ''Doctor Mack'' - Jamie
* ''Passion 1995'' - Tina
* ''Faithfully Yours'' - Miss Tang
* ''Man Wanted'' - Yung
* ''Love on Delivery'' - Lily
* ''Hail the Judge'' - Stone Mansion
* ''Modern Romance'' - Ady
* ''Mermaid Got Married'' - Wong Siu May, the mermaid
* ''I Wanna Be Your Man'' - Ron
* '''' - Michelle Yeung
* ''Whatever You Want'' - Pearl Ko
* ''The Sting 2'' - Lily
* ''The Bride with White Hair 2'' - Moon
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