Fiona Xie. The second best thing to have happened to Singapore since independence. (The first being independence.)

The actress is returning to Channel 5 in August to star in an upcoming drama where she will play a psychiatrist.

She is currently in the midst of filming the seven-episode series, Left Behind.

This is the only time a teaser is really a tease:

According to Toggle, the actress has been on a hiatus for more than six years.

In 2009, she bowed out of Channel 8's Together drama series at the last minute, because her boyfriend was not happy with the intimate scenes she would have to film for the show.

She formally left Mediacorp in December 2009 to pursue her other interests, such as photography and fashion, in Hong Kong and New York. She had been with the company for eight years.

The 34-year-old was touted as one of Mediacorp's seven princesses, together with the likes of Joanne Peh and Rui En.

Her return to television could be one last hurrah for Singapore's legacy media, where the Internet is the new television, and where people have 90-second attention spans.

At its prime, in the 1990s and early 2000s, Mediacorp went where no other broadcaster had gone (partly because there was only one main broadcaster in Singapore): It telecast into each and every single home Xie's most iconic scene involving her running down Orchard Road in a bikini for 2004's The Champion -- for which she won the Most Memorable Scene award at the Star Awards 25th Anniversary Show in 2007.

Her subsequent roles, such as playing a ghost in 2006's Maggi & Me or as a tomboyish night market hawker in 2008's Just in Singapore, paled in comparison, as they failed to recapture the public's imagination.

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