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About...
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Chinese
Name:
Leung Chiu Wai
Manadrin
Name:
Liang Chao Wei
Vietnamese
Name:
Leong Trieu Vi
Birthday:
June 27, 1962
Chinese
Horoscope:
Tiger
Astrology
Sign:
Cancer
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Tony
Leung Chiu-wai
Actor
Tony
Leung Chiu-wai was born in Hong Kong on June 27, 1962. He has become
the most sought-after actor in East Asia.
After completing
his studies, Tony Leung worked under contract to the television
channel TVB. He began by hosting a children's program, then attained
popularity by appearing on several television series.
Following
these career beginnings (comparable to those of other major Hong
Kong stars), Tony appeared in a series of "auteur" films which soon
earned him a reputation as an extremely versatile actor. Working
for several of East Asia's greatest filmmakers, he has turned in
outstanding performances.
It
is with Wong Kar-wai that Tony has enjoyed his strongest, most durable
collaboration, having appeared in five of the writer/director's
seven features. Following a cameo appearance in Days of Being
Wild (1991), portrayals for Wong have been a wandering knight
gradually going blind (in Ashes of Time [1994], for which
he won several awards); a solitary policeman in love (in Chungking
Express [1994], for which he received the Best Actor award at
the Hong Kong Film Awards); and a homosexual facing exile and a
painful separation (in Happy Together [1997], for which he
again received the Best Actor award at the Hong Kong Film Awards).
For his performance in In the Mood for Love, Tony received
the Best Actor award at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Tony has begun work on Wong Kar-wai's next film, 2046.
His
other notable films include John Woo's classics Bullet in the
Head (1990) and Hard-Boiled (1992); Stanley Kwan Kam-pang's
Love Unto Waste (1986); Derek Yee Tung-shing's The Lunatics
(1986); Ching Siu-tung's A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991);
Tran Anh-hung's Cyclo (1995); Patrick Yao Tat-chi's The
Longest Nite (1998); and Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of Sadness
(1989) and Flowers of Shanghai (1998).
In
addition to his acting career, Tony is a very popular recording
artist. Although he carefully chooses his more serious roles, he
also continues to appear in farces and B-movies, making him the
hardest actor in Hong Kong to pigeonhole.
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Related:
AC
Interviews Tony Leung Chiu-wai (In the Mood for Love)
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