Tiara Jacquelina

Tiara Jacquelina Abdullah (born 3 October 1967) is a Malaysian actress and film producer. She rose to fame in Puteri Gunung Ledang, the biggest budget movie in Malaysia to date, in which she played the lead role, and sang the theme song, "Asmaradana". Jacquelina was born Jacqueline Eu in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to a Burmese Chinese father and Indonesian Chinese mother. She 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 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 Rangoon. In the 12th Malaysia Film Festival that year, she won the best actress award in the movie, Ringgit Kasorrga, a social drama concerning a sex scandal involving a politician and young models. In 2004, she appeared in Puteri Gunung Ledang. The movie was No. 49 on the short-list of the Best Foreign Language Film category at the Academy Awards in 2004. Following the success of the movie, Jacquelina moved on to translate it on to the stage with the successful Puteri Gunung Ledang: The Musical. The following year, she was named Choice Actress at the Fourth Oskar Awards, organized by the Film Workers Association of Malaysia in 2005. Her husband is Dato' Seri Mohd Effendi Norwawi, a senator and Minister in the Prime Minister's Department in Malaysia. She holds the Malaysian honorific title Datin Seri. She is the mother of two children, Hani Karmila and Mohd Eridani. She converted to Islam and was previously married to actor and celebrity Hani Mohsin Hanafi.