{"id":2325701,"date":"2026-03-13T00:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2325701"},"modified":"2026-03-13T00:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:34:14","slug":"profile-how-carol-dodo-cheng-went-from-acting-with-chow-yun-fat-to-interviewing-hollywood-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/profile-how-carol-dodo-cheng-went-from-acting-with-chow-yun-fat-to-interviewing-hollywood-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile | How Carol \u2018Dodo\u2019 Cheng went from acting with Chow Yun-fat to interviewing Hollywood stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the 72nd instalment in a biweekly series<\/span><\/a> profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades.<\/div>\n
What do Chow Yun-fat<\/span><\/a>, Timothee Chalamet<\/span><\/a> and Doh Kyung-soo have in common? They have all had to keep up with the razor-sharp mind of Hong Kong actress and television host Carol \u201cDodo\u201d Cheng Yu-ling.<\/div>\n

From teaching Hollywood heartthrobs Cantonese to hosting the city\u2019s most prestigious galas, Cheng\u2019s presence is ubiquitous. Anyone who has watched the TVB anniversary awards or the local broadcaster\u2019s annual Miss Hong Kong Pageant has likely seen her face.<\/p>\n

One may also remember the 68-year-old entertainer for her unique moniker, fitting for a woman who seems to be able to \u201cdo\u201d it all. Named by her mother, she has even stated that she prefers Dodo over Carol.<\/p>\n

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Carol Cheng at an interview with the SCMP in 1992. Photo: SCMP<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Cheng, who is fluent in both Cantonese and English, initially aspired to be a journalist like Chinese-American news anchor Connie Chung<\/span><\/a>. When financial constraints derailed her studies abroad, Cheng pivoted to the acting programme at Commercial Television (CTV) in 1975.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scmp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the 72nd instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades. What do Chow Yun-fat, Timothee Chalamet and Doh Kyung-soo have in common? They have all had to keep up with the razor-sharp mind of Hong Kong actress and television host Carol \u201cDodo\u201d Cheng Yu-ling. From teaching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2325702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[450687,345695,450679,450683,450682,402666,342528,450681,450680,310801,345702,450685,450686,450684,345710,23844],"class_list":["post-2325701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-beijing-olympics","tag-carol-dodo-cheng-yu-ling","tag-carol-cheng","tag-carol-cheng-yu-ling","tag-cheng-yu-ling","tag-chow-yun-fat","tag-connie-chung","tag-do-do-cheng","tag-dodo-cheng","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-film-awards","tag-jia-ren-zi-you-yue","tag-kam-kwok-leung","tag-lui-fong","tag-tvb","tag-youtube"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Profile-How-Carol-\u2018Dodo-Cheng-went-from-acting-with.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325703,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325701\/revisions\/2325703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2325702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}