Tiara Jacquelina

       Tiara Jacquelina Eu Effendi is a Malaysian a famous actress and film producer. She was born on 3 October 1967. In addition, she was born Jacqueline Eu in Kuala Lumpur. She is famous for her part in Puteri Gunung Ledang, the biggest budget movie in Malaysia up to 2005, which she played the lead role and sang the theme song, “Asmaradana”. Besides appearing on the stage and on camera, Tiara Jacquelina is the Managing Director of Enfiniti Productions, a Malaysian company in the arts & entertainment and television production fields.

        In the family background of Tiara Jacquelina, she has a Burmese Chinese father and an Indonesian Chinese mother. Her grandmother was Chinese and her grandfather, Datuk Eddie Eu Eng Hock, who started out as a shipping clerk riding a humble bicycle to work. He was of Burmese descent and originally came to Malaya from China a few years before the war. Her husband is Dato’ Seri Mohd Effendi Norwawi, a business man from Sarawak, who also formerly served as a senator and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department. She converted to Islam and she was previously married to an actor and celebrity Hani Mohsin, from 1993 until they divorced in 1998. She is a mother of two children, Hani Karmila and Mohd Eridani.

        Jacquelina has been involved in the arts at a very early stage, and while at school, was part of the Theatre Society, the Literary Society, and was the President of the Film Society. She also enjoys horse-riding as a form of relaxation with her family, good food and painting. From her early days as a student who acted in TV commercials to pay her way through college to play lead roles in award-winning productions and now helming Enfiniti Media, a significant contributor to the Malaysian arts and entertainment scenes, Puan Sri Jacquelina has certainly come full circle with her career. She has also proven to the world that you can make a living in the arts and entertainment industry.

       She first began her film career in 1988. In 1995, costarred with Academy Award winner, Frances McDormand, who played the lead role in the movie, Beyond Rangoo. In the twelfth Malaysia Film Festival that year, she won the best actress award in the movie, Ringgit Kassorrga, a social drama concerning a sex scandal involving a politician and young models. In 2004, she appeared in Puteri Gunung Ledang. The movie was submitted to the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards in 2004 but was not nominated.  Following the success of the movie, Jacquelina moved on to translate it on to the stage as Puteri Gunung Ledang: The Musical. As a successful entrepreneur, producer, actress and philanthropist, she has made it her mission to push Malaysia’s arts and entertainment industry to the international stage. Puan Sri Jacquelina says, ‘It all began with the dream of producing a really well-made Malaysian movie that would be good enough to present the country at the most religious film festivals.”

        In conclusion, I think Tiara Jacquelina is a successful and famous Malaysian. She has a lot of talents, such as the talent in arts, the talent as a film career. She is the model to us and can let us to be a more successful person. She is the proud of Malaysian too.

 

Written by: Wong Yan Khei (1 Delphi)