Zoe Tay

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

50

Gender

Female

Birthday

1968-01-10 (57 years old)

Place of Birth

Singapore

Zoe Tay

Biography

Zoe Tay is a Singaporean actress , a former model and was named as "Queen of Caldecott Hill" by local media and fellow referred to as "Ah Jie" (senior actress) due to her status. Tay started out as a model at the age of 16. In 1987, she was named Model of The Year. After Tay was crowned champion of the inaugural Star Search in 1988, she was offered a 3-year contract with the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), now known as Mediacorp. While Tay had initially disliked acting, she began feeling passionate for her craft after her role in Crime and Passion in 1991. Her breakthrough performance as a materialistic young woman in Pretty Faces catapulted her into stardom. Her popularity was affirmed with a Top 10 Most Popular Female Artiste Award at the Star Awards every year for ten consecutive years since its inception in 1994. In 1996, Zoe won the Best Actress award for her role in The Golden Pillow at the annual Star Awards. In 2004, she was the first actress to have been awarded the prestigious All-Time Favourite Artiste . Other than television dramas, Tay also forayed into films. In 2010, she starred opposite Hong Kong actor Kenny Ho in Love Cuts, playing the role of a terminally ill woman who has breast cancer. In 2013, she appeared in her first fully English-speaking role in Mister John with Irish star Aidan Gillen. Tay has collaborated with many artistes in her various projects. Her on-screen chemistry with Li Nanxing in The Unbeatables and other serials has put them in the list of the Top 5 Best Onscreen Couples at the Star Awards 25th Drama Anniversary show. In 2015, she collaborated for the first time with Huang Biren, in The Dream Makers II. Due to her contributions to the television industry in Singapore, a wax figurine was modelled after her by Madame Tussauds Singapore, and is currently on display in the museum. Tay won her second Best Actress at the Star Awards 2017 for You Can Be an Angel 2, 21 years after her first. In an interview, she revealed that after her first win in 1996, she had contemplated quitting as she felt "strangely empty and lost". Instead, she enrolled in an acting class in New York, an experience which transformed her to "someone who is focused on improving my acting and who can be exemplary to other actors." Guiding her are three Chinese words from her father: 毅力 or perseverance, 耐力 or endurance , 勇气 or courage. In Star Awards 2019, Tay won her third Best Actress for the drama, A Million Dollar Dream.

Known For

  • All is Well

    All is Well

  • The Unbeatables

    The Unbeatables

  • Love Cuts

    Love Cuts

  • The Return of the Condor Heroes

    The Return of the Condor Heroes

  • The Teochew Family

    The Teochew Family

  • The Golden Pillow

    The Golden Pillow

  • Love Knows No Bounds

    Love Knows No Bounds

  • Liang Po Po: The Movie

    Liang Po Po: The Movie

  • Emerald Hill - The Little Nyonya Story

    Emerald Hill - The Little Nyonya Story

  • Recipe

    Recipe

  • Love Dowry

    Love Dowry

  • Devotion

    Devotion

  • The Ultimatum

    The Ultimatum

  • The Tree

    The Tree

  • Strange Encounters

    Strange Encounters

  • 窈窕淑女

    窈窕淑女

  • The New Adventure of Wisely

    The New Adventure of Wisely

  • The Last Swordsman

    The Last Swordsman

  • VIC

    VIC

  • My One and Only

    My One and Only

  • Asian Beat: Love from Temasek

    Asian Beat: Love from Temasek

  • My Guardian Angels

    My Guardian Angels

  • The Dream Makers

    The Dream Makers

  • Pretty Faces

    Pretty Faces

  • The Dream Makers

    The Dream Makers

  • You Can Be an Angel

    You Can Be an Angel

  • 出人头地

    出人头地

  • Hero

    Hero

  • Terms of Endearment

    Terms of Endearment

  • The Millennium Bug

    The Millennium Bug

  • Eat Already?

    Eat Already?

  • Mister John

    Mister John

  • Man at Forty

    Man at Forty

  • Love... And Other Bad Habits

    Love... And Other Bad Habits

  • La Femme

    La Femme

  • The Stratagem

    The Stratagem

  • How Are You?

    How Are You?

  • My Home Affairs

    My Home Affairs

  • Baby Boom

    Baby Boom

  • Lost Soul

    Lost Soul

  • My Mighty-in-Laws

    My Mighty-in-Laws

  • A Million Treasures

    A Million Treasures

  • A Different Life

    A Different Life

  • A Million Dollar Dream

    A Million Dollar Dream

  • Carlsberg Lunar New Year Variety Show 2010

    Carlsberg Lunar New Year Variety Show 2010

  • Double Bonus

    Double Bonus

  • While We Are Young

    While We Are Young

  • 惊天大阴谋

    惊天大阴谋

  • The Scoop

    The Scoop

  • Pointed Triangle

    Pointed Triangle