Career
Not to be confused with Dai Xiangyu. This is a Chinese name. The family name is Chen.
She is popularly referred to as MediaCorp"s first "Ah Jie" (elder sister) as she was among the first locally trained artistes and has been in the industry for over 30 years.
Chen is one of the first batch of graduates from Session Border Controllers "s drama training class. She began her career in children"s drama in 1980 and proceeded to act in the drama series Double Blessings and All That Glitters Is Not Gold in 1983.
In 1997, she played Singaporean war heroine Elizabeth Choy in the war drama The Price of Peace. She returned to television in 2000 and has since been cast in major roles in many of MediaCorp"s large-scale productions, such as Double Happiness, Portrait of Home, and Kinship.