Josephine Koo

{{short description|Chinese film actress}}

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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1952}}

| birth_place = Shanghai, China

| years_active = 1975-2004

| awards = Golden Goblet Awards for Best Actress
2004 Shanghai Story
{{awards|award=Hong Kong Film Awards|name=Best New Performer
1985 Homecoming}}{{awards|award=Golden Horse Awards|name=Best Supporting Actress
1992 To Liv(e)}}

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| t = 顧美華

| s = 顾美华

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Josephine Koo Mei-Wah or Gu Meihua ({{zh|c=顧美華}}) is a Chinese film actress. She had a bright start to her film career, starring in Yim Ho's Hong Kong New Wave classic Homecoming (1984). The film won her the Best New Performer Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 1985, and also a nomination for Best Actress, but she was beaten by Siqin Gaowa from the same film.{{Cite web|url= http://www.hkfaa.com/history/list_04.html|script-title= zh:第四屆香港電影金像獎得獎名單|access-date= 2010-03-03|language= zh|publisher= Hong Kong Film Awards|archive-date= 2016-03-04|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304085556/http://www.hkfaa.com/history/list_04.html|url-status= dead}}

After Homecoming, Koo appeared in Yim Ho's Red Dust (1990), Stanley Kwan's Full Moon in New York (1990) and Evans Chan's To Live(e) (1992).

She disappeared from the screen in the late 1990s but suddenly returned in Peng Xiaolian's Shanghai Story (2004). For her role in this film, Koo was awarded the Best Actress Award at the Shanghai International Film Festival, beating out Zhang Ziyi and Joey Wong.