Aileen Tan

Aileen Tan Lay Ching (born 18 October 1966) is a Singaporean actress.

Life and career
Tan studied at Willow Secondary School. Tan worked in sales for more than a year before becoming an office administrator at an advertising agency.

Tan participated in Singapore Broadcasting Corporation's inaugural Star Search in 1988 and was placed second behind Zoe Tay. She also won the award for Most Photogenic.

Tan was often cast in leading roles in the first 15 years of her acting career, but has since played supporting roles in recent years.

She has been nominated multiple times in the Best Actress category at the annual Star Awards. She was nominated for the award in 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, and 2003; she won the award once in 2001 for her role in Three Women and a Half, playing a manager in an advertising company who would make use of her looks and charms to climb up the corporate ladder. Tan took a break from television in 2005. In 2006, she appeared in two Singapore dramas, Women of Times and Measure of Man, the latter drama clinching the runner-up position in 2006's television viewership ratings.

Tan also ventured into English dramas. In 2000, she played Mae in MediaCorp Channel 5's longest-running drama series, Growing Up. Later in 2009, she played Suzanne Kong, the wife of a tycoon in the 40-episode drama Red Thread. In 2013, Tan won Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 18th Asian Television Awards (ATA) for her role in The Day It Rained on Our Parade which consisted of four episodes. On 29 May 2015, it was announced that Tan will play the lead role in Jack Neo's film, Long Long Time Ago alongside Mark Lee and Wang Lei. At Star Awards 2017, Tan received the Best Supporting Actress award for the drama Hero. At Star Awards 2018, she landed her 4th nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the drama, Have a Little Faith.

Tan has won 2 Star Awards for Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes in 1994 and 1997.

Personal life
Tan's parents are of Hokkien descent.

She married Hong Kong film director Gerald Lee in 2002. She experienced an ectopic pregnancy in 2006, which eventually led to an abortion.