Doris Young Siew Keen (born November 25, 1959) is a Singaporean director, producer, writer and actress.
[1] Following her graduation from St Anthony’s Convent Secondary School, Young worked as a restaurant usher in a nightclub or restaurant at Shenton Way in about 1976,[2] where she was discovered by a scouting team from Hong Kong and received her first acting role, a minor role as a female detective based in Singapore for the Hong Kong film Showdown at the Equator.
[3] Aged 18, Young shot to fame portraying the title character Cleopatra Wong in 1978's They Call Her Cleopatra Wong, a martial arts film shot in Singapore and Philippines about a female Interpol agent written and directed by Suarez.
Young retired from acting in 1981 and managed a dance troupe, The Devil's Angels (named after the members from her third Cleopatra Wong film), for two years, while starting a family.
When Suarez died of a heart attack on February 8, 2010, Young inherited the franchise rights of Cleopatra Wong and its website.
[10][11][12] In December 2012, Young started a filmmaking hobbyist group, Reel Frenz Productions,[13] working as a director, producer and writer.
She later established a filmmaking company Singapore Cinema Pte Ltd in February 2015 to oversee her feature film projects.