Anna Choy

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Anna Choy
Born (1978-10-11) 11 October 1978 (age 44)
Hong Kong

Anna Choy (born 11 October 1978 in Hong Kong) [1] is an Australian actress and presenter. [2] She attended Fort Street High School in Petersham, Sydney. She also attended Boronia Park Public School in Gladesville, New South Wales, Australia.

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She started her career appearing in small roles on television (she played Rose in Cassidy, a two-part mini series for television and starred as Kumiko in Escape from Jupiter and Return to Jupiter ), but soon landed a break in 2000 co-hosting morning children's show The Big Breakfast, which was later rescheduled and retitled The Big Arvo . She left the show in 2004 and became a reporter for Beyond Tomorrow in 2005. [1] [3] Choy presented the SBS documentary Change My Race in 2013. [4] She was a weather reporter for Sky News Australia between 2016 and 2017.

Choy served as an Australia Day ambassador between 2001 and 2006. In 2005 and 2006 she also served as a judge for the Chinese Community Service Awards.[ citation needed ]

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  3. 8 June 2005. "Pet project". The Sydney Morning Herald, Retrieved 6 August 2009
  4. SBS uncovers the Australians who want to change their race. News.com.au, Retrieved 16 June 2022