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Leslie Cheung

Leslie 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."


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Born:
Sep 12, 1956 In Hong Kong
Movie/TV Credits:
59
First Appeared:
In the movie Encore 1980-10-02
Latest Project:
Movie Duckweed 2017-01-28
Known For
Poster of All's Well, Ends Well
Poster of Fatal Love
Poster of First Time
Filmography
Movie Duckweed (archive footage) 2017-01-28
Movie Inner Senses Jim Law 2002-03-28
Movie Double Tap Rick Y.H.Pang 2000-05-27
Movie From Ashes to Ashes Lawrence 2000-08-01
Movie Okinawa Rendez-vous Jimmy Tong 2000-07-27
Movie Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of 'Happy Together' Self 1999-01-01
Movie Moonlight Express Tatsuya Misawa / Shek Karbo 1999-01-01
Movie The Kid Wing / Daniel 1999-10-14
Movie Ninth Happiness Ma Lun Cheung / Tok Choi 1998-02-14
Movie Anna Magdalena Editor 1998-05-28
Movie A Time to Remember Jin 1998-07-22
Movie Knock Off Mechanic [cameo] 1998-09-04
Movie Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema Self 1998-06-04
Movie All's Well, Ends Well '97 Self 1997-02-06
Movie Happy Together Ho Po-wing 1997-05-30
Movie Tri-Star Chung Kwok-keung 1996-02-15
Movie Temptress Moon Yu Zhongliang 1996-05-09
Movie Who's the Woman, Who's the Man? Sam Koo Gai Ming 1996-08-15
Movie Viva Erotica Sing 1996-11-28
Movie Shanghai Grand Hui Man Keung 1996-07-13
Movie The Chinese Feast Chiu Kong Sun 1995-01-28
Movie The Phantom Lover Song Danping 1995-07-22
Movie He's a Woman, She's a Man Sam Koo Gai Ming 1994-07-23
Movie It's a Wonderful Life Roberto 1994-02-06
Movie Long and Winding Road Lam Chiu-Wing 1994-08-04
Movie Over the Rainbow, Under the Skirt Himself 1994-08-31
Movie Ashes of Time Ouyang Feng / Malicious West 1994-09-17
Movie All's Well End's Well, Too David Copper Feel 1993-01-20
Movie Farewell My Concubine Cheng Dieyi / Xiao Douzi 1993-01-01
Movie The Eagle Shooting Heroes Huang Yaoshi 1993-02-05
Movie The Bride with White Hair 2 Cho Yi Hang 1993-12-22
Movie The Bride with White Hair Cho Yi Hang 1993-08-26
Movie All's Well, Ends Well Shang So 1992-01-25
Movie Arrest the Restless Teddy 1992-05-14
Movie Once a Thief James / Jim 1991-02-02
Movie The Banquet Little B-head 1991-11-30
Movie A Chinese Ghost Story II Ning Choi San 1990-07-13
Movie Days of Being Wild Yuddy 1990-12-15
Movie Aces Go Places V: The Terracotta Hit Brother Thief 1989-01-28
Movie Fatal Love Chi Ken Wing 1988-08-11
Movie A Chinese Ghost Story Ling Choi Sin 1987-07-18
Movie A Better Tomorrow II Kit 1987-12-17
Movie Rouge Chan Chen-Pang 1987-12-05
Movie Last Song in Paris Louie 1986-04-10
Movie A Better Tomorrow Kit 1986-08-02
Movie Crazy Romance Leslie Cheung 1985-08-01
Movie For Your Heart Only Piggy Chan 1985-09-07
Movie The Intellectual Trio Inspector Chan Wing 1984-06-06
Movie Behind the Yellow Line Paul Chan 1984-10-03
Movie Merry Christmas John 1984-12-12
Movie Double Decker Eddie 1984-12-07
Movie The Drummer 1983-03-16
Movie Little Dragon Maiden Yang Guo / Yang Kang 1983-12-02
Movie First Time 1983-05-12
Movie Teenage Dreamers Jackson Chen 1982-03-24
Movie Energetic-21 Ben Leung Man Bun 1982-09-30
Movie Nomad Louis 1982-11-25
Movie On Trial Wing 1981-08-26
Movie Encore Gigo 1980-10-02
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