Amy Cheng

Cheng is a co-founder and creative director of Act 3 Theatrics.[1][2] She has performed in live theatre shows through Act 3 including Footsteps in the Night, 41 Hours, and Confessions of the Three Unmarried Women. She has had other stage roles in Singapore Repertory Theatre's Forbidden City and The Good Citizen and Escape Productions' The Deap Blue Sea and Esplanade's Letters from Home.[3] In 2006 she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Life! Theatre Awards for her role as the Banana Tree Spirit in the mandarin musical 10 Brothers.

From 1996 until 2001 Cheng was a regular cast member of the Singaporean television drama Growing Up (1996 - 2001) as Karen Tay, the wife of Andrew Seow's character, Gary Tay.[4] In 2001 she was nominated for Best Actress at the Asian Television Awards for her role in Growing Up. She played Dr. Winnie Leong in the television series First Touch (2002 - 2003) and also had roles in Like My Own, Happily Ever After (2007), Machine, Stay, and Anita's Complaint. Cheng has worked as a television presenter and host for My Perfect Child and The Good Life. She landed roles in the Chinese dramas She's the One, Destiny, and Making Miracles (2007). She had a guest role in the German television movie Perfect Harmony. She played the leading role in Zhao Wei Films' Stories About Love and starred alongside Gurmit Singh and Fann Wong in Jack Neo's movie named Just Follow Law (2007).[5] She had a small role as Felicia Chin's mother in the television movie Hong Bao + Kisses.

In 2018 she appeared in the American romantic comedy-drama film Crazy Rich Asians as Jaqueline Ling.[6][7][8][9]