Leslie Cheung
Birthday: 1956-09-12 | Place of Birth: Hong Kong, ChinaLeslie Cheung (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003) was a Hong Kong singer-songwriter, actor, film director, record producer, and screenwriter. Cheung is considered one of the "founding fathers of Cantopop" by "combining a hugely successful film and music career." He rose to prominence as a teen heartthrob and pop icon of Hong Kong in the 1980s, with the turning point in his acting career coming in 1986 with his starring role in John Woo's A Better Tomorrow, which broke Hong Kong's box office record. In the following years Cheung was praised for his performances in films which found popularity with audiences worldwide, including A Chinese Ghost Story (1987), Rouge (1987) and Wong Kar-Wai's Days of Being Wild (1991). Cheung won the 1991 Hong Kong Film Award (Days of Being Wild) and the 1994 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award (Ashes of Time) for best actor. He had also won the 1994 Japan Film Critics Society Award for best actor for his performance in Farewell My Concubine and ten other best actor nominations, five Golden Horse Awards, three Cannes Film Festival Awards, an Asia Pacific Film Festival Award, and a Venice Film Festival Award. Cheung's music and movies not only captured fans in Hong Kong but also other Asian countries including Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Japan and South Korea. He is the first foreign artist to hold 16 concerts in Japan that has yet to be broken and the record holder as the best-selling C-pop artist in Korea. Cheung was ranked as the favorite actor in the 100 years of Chinese cinema. In 2010, he was voted the third "Most Iconic Musician of All Time" (after Michael Jackson and The Beatles). CNN considered Cheung as the "Most Beautiful Man from Hong Kong Cinema" and one of "Asia's 25 Greatest Actors of All Time."
Known For
Acting
Role
as Self (archive footage)
as Ho Po-wing
as Ouyang Feng
as 欧阳锋
as 欧阳锋
as 欧阳锋
as 欧阳锋
as Ouyang Feng / Malicious West
as 欧阳锋
as 歐陽鋒 Ouyang Feng
as Jim Law
as Jimmy Tong
as Lawrence
as Rick Y.H.Pang
as Tatsuya Misawa / Shek Karbo
as Wing / Daniel
as Editor
as Ma Lun Cheung / Tok Choi
as Chung Kwok Keung
as Hui Man Keung
as Sam Koo Gai Ming
as Sing
as Yu Zhongliang
