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Tony Leung Chiu Wai Wikipedia

Not to be confused with actor Tony Leung Ka-Fai

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style="background:#ccf; border-bottom:1px solid" colspan=2|Chinese name|Names
align=right|Known in English as:	Tony Leung Chiu Wai
align=right|Chinese language|Chinese:	梁朝偉
align=right|Pinyin:	Li?ng Ch?owěi or Liang2 Chao2 Wei3
align=right|Wade-Giles:	Liang Ch'ao-wei
align=right|Cantonese notation:	Leung4 Tsiu4 Wai5

Tony Leung Chiu Wai (born June 27, 1962) is a Hong Kong film|movie and ex-television actor.

Born in Hong Kong, with origins in Taishan, Guangdong Province, China, he was brought up under a single-parent family. In 1982, after passing the training courses of the television channel "TVB", Tony Leung became an actor and became known for his comedy roles in television and film. During his career he soon showed his versatility in about 60 films.

Many consider Tony Leung's breakthrough role to be in director John Woo's 1992 action film Hard Boiled acting alongside with Chow Yun-Fat. Leung however first gained international exposure through Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 1989 film A City of Sadness, which won the Venice Golden Lion.

Tony Leung often collaborates with director Wong Kar-Wai and has appeared in many of his films. His most notable roles in Wong Kar-Wai's films include his lonely policeman in Chungking Express (1994), his homosexual Chinese ex-patriate living in Argentina in Happy Together (1997), and a repressed victim of adultery in In the Mood for Love (2000), for which he won the Best Actor award at Cannes Film Festival|Cannes.

He is considered by many to be the finest actor in Hong Kong of his generation. He is good friends with actor and comedian Stephen Chow. His well-known life partner since 1989 is actress Carina Lau.

Leung also has an on-and-off Cantopop singing career.

Last Modified:   2005-03-09