In tvB's popular family ethics drama "Seven Princesses", there is an old drama bone that everyone is very familiar with, she is the actor of Gu Million Wife - Helen Ma, who is now 73 years old, the age of the play is as long as 55 years, and there are few in the film and television circle.
As TVB's wife and mother-in-law professional household, Helen Ma has acted in many familiar Hong Kong dramas, such as "Top Gun Master Sister", "Everyone is Happy", "Towel Gangster", "Yihai Haoqing", "Pearlescent Treasure", most of them are supporting roles with few roles, where they need to move.
There are many actors who have been green leaves in TVB for many years, but Helen Ma is not simple.
At the age of 19, Helen Ma participated in the "Hong Kong Princess" campaign, won the title of "Hong Kong Jade Girl", and began to enter Shaw as an actor, although she had outstanding appearance, she has always been a supporting role. In the early 1970s, Helen Ma befriended the younger brother of the wealthy merchant He Shizhu and soon married and had children.
Ma Helen's career is still very bumpy, and then the top management of Jiayi TV invited her to come back and let her be the heroine, but she did not expect that jiayi would go out of business two years later. Helen Ma simply had another daughter, quit the circle again, and raised two children herself.
After a few years of rest, Helen Ma first arrived at ATV, and soon jumped to TVB, where she has been playing supporting roles ever since.
Although TVB's remuneration is not high, and she has always been a supporting role, Helen Ma is an invisible rich man in the film and television industry, and according to conservative estimates by the media, her net worth is more than 50 million. Look at her bag on Mother's Day this year, purple crocodile skin ostrich skin Birkin, priced at millions.
How did Helen Make So Much Money?
On the one hand, her husband is the younger brother of the wealthy businessman Ho Sai Chu, who was already the prime minister of the board of directors of the charity Tung Wah SanYuan in the 1970s, and the family itself is not simple.
On the other hand, the 90s was a period of soaring hong Kong's property market, and Ma Helen did not know whether to make a crooked mistake or a unique vision, and began to speculate in houses and make a lot of money.
Helen Ma also bought a house in the United Kingdom, in the early years of her two children to study in the United Kingdom, in order to make their lives convenient, she bought a suite for her children to live, and indeed had money and willfulness.
It is good to have money, and what is even more rare is that Helen Ma can maintain a normal heart.
First of all, Helen Ma did not give up her low-paid actor job, and she is still active on the screen at the age of 73. Helen Ma has publicly said that she intends to retire in 2014, but in 2013, she won the "Outstanding Actor Award" in Taiqing, inspiring her to continue to shine.
Secondly, Ma Helen did not get carried away in her life, plain and bland, coarse tea and light rice. Although she has posted designer bags, in most cases, her dress is very simple, no different from other colleagues.
Helen Ma likes to cook, and when she has nothing to do, she cooks and studies cooking skills herself; when she is idle, she likes to watch mainland variety shows and TV dramas, such as "Ace to Ace", "Crossover Singer King", "Roaming" and so on.
Ma Helen's ancestral home is Shanghai, and she loves to travel. In recent years, many Hong Kong stars who have developed in the north have liked to travel in the mainland, and Helen Ma has traveled to many places in the mainland many years ago.
In the past five or six years, she has also visited many Buddhist holy places in the mainland, donated money to build a meditation center, and in 2019 she also went to Nanjing Dingshan Temple to meditate, and she was going to continue to attend the meditation class in 2020, but the epidemic affected the meditation class, and the meditation class was cancelled.
Ma Helen also has a hobby that can't stop, that is, climbing, hiking, although the age is too rare, but she is old and strong, climbing the mountain for 3 hours is not a problem, casually walking is six or seven kilometers.
Helen Ma is also good at bowling and golf, and her life is plain but colorful.
In addition, Helen Ma is also a very positive person.
On the one hand, she will express her patriotic position clearly and have a sense of national pride from the heart.
On the other hand, she is a person with a good heart and a responsible heart.
A few years ago, there was a cram school that faced a crisis because the owners wanted to evict them so that they could sell their houses. Ma Helen bought the owner's house and continued to rent it out to the tuition club at the original price. When the epidemic broke out, many merchants were having difficulty in operating, and Ma Helen also reduced the rent for the tuition club, saying: "Let them pay as much rent as they want, because people must know how to be grateful and generous." ”
However, in October last year, Ma Helen once made a oolong, she posted the news of the death of the old actor Wang Yu on the Internet, although Wang Yu was once critically ill, but it turned out to be a fake news, Wang Yu's daughter also said that she hoped That Helen Ma apologized for publishing the unconfirmed news.
After learning the truth, Ma Helen quickly clarified the news of Wang Yu's death, and also revealed that the fake news came from Shao's old colleagues.
Ma Helen's oolong incident is still very defeated, but the vast majority of grandmothers, in the face of such news, it is difficult to achieve rational verification and then spread, Ma Helen's fault, extenuating circumstances, who can be blameless?
In general, the old drama bone Helen is an admirable person, she has also chased fame and fortune, but is not confused by fame and fortune, dedicated and happy, life is plain but quality, and she has helped others within the scope of her ability.