Zoe Tay is a Singaporean actress , a former model and was named as "Queen of Caldecott Hill" by local media and fellow referred to as "Ah Jie" (senior actress) due to her status. Tay started out as a model at the age of 16. In 1987, she was named Model of The Year. After Tay was crowned champion of the inaugural Star Search in 1988, she was offered a 3-year contract with the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), now known as Mediacorp. While Tay had initially disliked acting, she began feeling passionate for her craft after her role in Crime and Passion in 1991. Her breakthrough performance as a materialistic young woman in Pretty Faces catapulted her into stardom. Her popularity was affirmed with a Top 10 Most Popular Female Artiste Award at the Star Awards every year for ten consecutive years since its inception in 1994. In 1996, Zoe won the Best Actress award for her role in The Golden Pillow at the annual Star Awards. In 2004, she was the first actress to have been awarded the prestigious All-Time Favourite Artiste .
Other than television dramas, Tay also forayed into films. In 2010, she starred opposite Hong Kong actor Kenny Ho in Love Cuts, playing the role of a terminally ill woman who has breast cancer. In 2013, she appeared in her first fully English-speaking role in Mister John with Irish star Aidan Gillen.
Tay has collaborated with many artistes in her various projects. Her on-screen chemistry with Li Nanxing in The Unbeatables and other serials has put them in the list of the Top 5 Best Onscreen Couples at the Star Awards 25th Drama Anniversary show. In 2015, she collaborated for the first time with Huang Biren, in The Dream Makers II.
Due to her contributions to the television industry in Singapore, a wax figurine was modelled after her by Madame Tussauds Singapore, and is currently on display in the museum.
Tay won her second Best Actress at the Star Awards 2017 for You Can Be an Angel 2, 21 years after her first. In an interview, she revealed that after her first win in 1996, she had contemplated quitting as she felt "strangely empty and lost". Instead, she enrolled in an acting class in New York, an experience which transformed her to "someone who is focused on improving my acting and who can be exemplary to other actors." Guiding her are three Chinese words from her father: 毅力 or perseverance, 耐力 or endurance , 勇气 or courage.
In Star Awards 2019, Tay won her third Best Actress for the drama, A Million Dollar Dream.
2023
as Ma Limin
2020
as Mandy
2019
as Zhang Bi Zhu
2019
as Dr. Michelle Soong
2018
as Zoe
2018
as Hu Jiao Fen
2017
as Fang Ting
2016
as Deborah
2016
as Dr. Tay
2015
as Zhou Wei Yun
2015
as Wang Ruojun
2013
as Qiu Yun
2013
as Kim Devine
2013
2013
as Mei
2012
as Mei Feng
2011
as Liu Zhao Di
2010
as Sissy
2010
2009
as Ye Yu-Chen
2008
as Fang Bao Yu
2006
as Bai Xing Xing
2004
as Yao Mei Mei
2004
as Jian Jie
2003
as Kim
2001
as Guo Mei Feng
2001
as Ye Kai Shuang
2000
as Zhang Xiao Tong
1999
as Cameo
1999
as Pian Pian
1999
as Huang Si Jie
1998
as Bai Su
1998
as Lu Erniang
1997
as Joey
1996
as Pan Gui Kai
1995
as Zhou Xiaodan
1995
as Cai Chong-mei
1995
as Shi Jia
1995
as Xu Xiu Hui
1994
as Zheng Min
1993
as Luo Qi-Fang
1992
as Shu Qing
1991
1991
as Bobo Wu
1991
as Hong Xiu
1990
as 叶蓓
1988
as 傅桂花
1987
as Zhu Xiu Juan