Tony Leung

Name: Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Nickname Wai Jai
Birthday 6/27/1962
Birthplace Hong Kong
Origin Guandong Taishang
Chinese Zodiac Tiger

Weight 66kg
Height 175cm
Blood Type A
Family members Mother, One Younger Sister
Favorite Colors Red, Black, Blue
Favorite Flower Lily
Favorite Fruit Watermelon
Favorite Sports Swimming, Surfing, Driving
Favorite Veggie Carrots
Favorite Snack Chocolate
Cars he own Land Rover, NSX
Fave Moviestar Robert De Niro
Fave Music Blues; Light Rock
Favorite Singer Eric Clapton
Favorite Writers Sheng Chong-wen; Haruki Murakami
Favorite Book On Meeting My 100 Percent Woman one fine April Morning By Haruki Murakami
Favorite toy Car models
Favorite Cartoon (TV) ¤p³¾ËÛËÛ
Favorite Cartoon (book) ¤p¬y¥Á
Something you might not know Tony plays pretty good Guitar
Collects Watches, Suits(Matsuda, Versace, Armani, Gabanna)
Most Satisfied TV work Police Cadet 84 (1984)
Most Satisfied movie work Days of Being Wild (1990)

Born in Hong Kong, with ancestry in Taishan, Guangdong, China, Tony Leung was brought up by his mother in 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.

Many consider Tony Leung’s role in director John Woo’s 1992 action film Hard Boiled where he acted with Chow Yun-Fat as his breakthrough role. However, Leung first gained international exposure through Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s 1989 film A City of Sadness, which won the Venice Golden Lion.

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 the lonely policeman in Chungking Express (1994), a homosexual Chinese expatriate 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.

He is considered by many to be the finest actor of his generation in Hong Kong. Robert de Niro, who is an admirer of his work, has called Leung Asia’s answer to Clark Gable.

He is good friends with actor and comedian Stephen Chow.

Carina Lau, a fellow actor, has been in a steady relationship with him since 1989. Despite this, the couple have no intention of marrying.

Leung also has an on-and-off Cantopop and Mandarin pop singing career and sang the theme song of Infernal Affairs with Andy Lau.

Leung speaks fluent and impeccable English and is well read and well versed on historic issues. During the late 1990’s, some predicted that it would be difficult for him to break into Hollywood since he would not take on degrading roles because of Leung’s pride and character. To date, he has not done a Hollywood movie, but is primed to appear in one after signing on with an American film agent.

During the promotion of the movie Hero, pro-British and pro-colonial politicians and commentators in Hong Kong attacked Leung for expressing his view on the historic impacts of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstration. Under constant political pressure, Leung made single statement that he may have been quoted out of context. [3] However, the movie magazine editor said that the orginal statement was not out of context.

Leung’s views are similar to that of most overseas-based Chinese scholars such as Dr. Pei Minxin.

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