The Forbidden City [SEP] cast member
The Forbidden City
The Forbidden City is a 1918 American silent drama film starring Norma Talmadge and Thomas Meighan and directed by Sidney Franklin. A copy of the film is in the Library of Congress and other film archives.
Plot.
The plot centers around an inter-racial romance between a Chinese princess (Talmadge) and an American (Meighan). When palace officials discover she has become pregnant she is sentenced to death. In the latter part of the film Talmadge plays the now adult daughter of the affair,
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". 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".
Career Television.
From 1996 until 2001 Cheng was a regular cast member of the Singaporean television drama "Growing