Tony Leung
essential information
Acting experience
Hong Kong opera period
After dropping out of school at the age of 15, Leung had worked as a newsboy, accountant, and handyman. Introduced by his good friend Stephen Chow, he was admitted to the "Hong Kong TVB artistes training class" in 1982 and became a TV actor, officially entering the performing arts industry. In 1983, he graduated from the 11th art training class of Hong Kong TVB. After graduation, he became a wireless artist and presided over the children's TV program 430 shuttle of TVB jade. The first drama to be officially performed is "the prodigal son of Xiangcheng".
In 1984, Tony Leung became famous for his role as Trinket in Jin Yong's martial arts drama Lu Ding Ji, and his starring role in the TV series Xinzha elder martial brother was well known to the audience.
From 1985 to 1989, he successively appeared in many Hong Kong dramas, such as the sequel of elder martial brother Xinzha, the story of killing the Dragon by relying on heaven, the Grand Canal, the pride of the peerless generation and the journey of swordsman.
Film period
While at wireless Hong Kong, Tony Leung has been involved in a number of films. In 1985, he starred in "youth Pavilion"; in 1986, he played a psychopath in Er Dongsheng's "crazy man", and starred in Guan Jinpeng's film "underground love", nominated for the best actor award of the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards.
In 1987, he played in the film "people's Heroes" directed by Er Dongsheng and won the best supporting actor award of the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards.
In 1989, he starred in Tan Jiaming's film "killer, butterfly, dream", and won the best supporting actor award of the 9th Hong Kong Film Awards; in the same year, he went to Taiwan to play in Hou Xiaoxian's feature film "tragic city", in which he played Lin Wenqing, the fourth brother who was deaf and dumb since childhood, and won the Golden Lion Award of the 46th Venice International Film Festival.
In 1990, he formally ended his contract with Hong Kong Wireless, starring in the movie "bloody street" directed by John Woo, and in the movie "a Fei Zheng Zhuan" directed by Wong Kar Wai in the same year. During the period, he voluntarily resigned because of the accident of Carina Lau. Although only one scene was reserved, Liang Chao Wei regained his interest in performance.
In 1992, he cooperated with director John Woo in the film "hot hand detective", in which he played a tragic undercover with inner contradictions. In the same year, Tony Leung refused to be nominated as "best supporting actor" at the Hong Kong film awards because of his heavy role in the film.
In 1993, he starred in the comedy "the legend of the shooting hero" directed by Liu Zhenwei.
In 1994, Tony Leung played a "sentimental policeman" 663 who likes to talk to himself all day in the movie Chongqing forest directed by Wong Kar Wai. He won the best actor award in the 14th Hong Kong Film Awards and the best actor award in the 31st Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards. In the same year, he took part in the martial arts movie "east evil and West poison" directed by Wong Kar Wai and played "blind warrior" in the movie.
In 1995, he starred in "rogue doctor" directed by Li Zhiyi; in the same year, he took part in "tricycle driver" directed by Vietnamese director Chen Yingxiong, which won the Golden Lion Award at the 52nd Venice International Film Festival.
In 1997, he starred in the film "spring break", which was shortlisted in the main competition unit of the 50th Cannes International Film Festival.
He won the best actor award for best director in Hong Kong in 1998.
In 2000, he starred in the movie in the mood for love directed by Wong Kar Wai, playing the role of Zhou Muyun. The film has won the best foreign language film award of the 26th French film Caesar Award, the best foreign language film award of the 51st German film Laura award, the best foreign language film award of the 54th British Film Academy Award, the nomination of the 54th Italian film David award and the best foreign language film award of the Australian Film Academy Award Tony Leung won the best actor award at the 53rd Cannes International Film Festival, becoming the second Cannes Film winner in China, and the best actor award at the 20th Hong Kong Film Awards.
In 2002, he played Chen Yongren, an undercover policeman in the gangster movie Infernal Affairs directed by Liu Weiqiang and Mai Zhaohui, and won the best actor award in the 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards, the best actor award in the 40th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award, and the best actor award in the 8th Hong Kong Film Golden Bauhinia Award. In the same year, he won the best actor award in the martial arts film Yingxia award directed by Zhang Yimou In the same year, he starred in the comedy "unparalleled in the world".
In 2003, Tony Leung left his fingerprints on the avenue of stars in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong.
In 2004, he played in 2046 directed by Wong Kar Wai and won the best actor award of the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards and the 10th Hong Kong Golden Bauhinia awards.
In 2005, Leung Chao Wei was selected as one of the "100 outstanding actors of Chinese film in the past 100 years" in the selection activities organized by China Film Performing Arts Association; in the same year, Zhou Muyun, who played in "in the mood for love", was selected as one of the "100 classic screen images of Chinese film in the past 100 years" by China Film Review Association.
In 2006, he played in the film "Shangcheng" directed by Liu Weiqiang and Mai Zhaohui, and in the same year, Liang Chaowei was rated as a national first-class actor.
In 2007, he starred in Ang Lee's film lust, caution, and won the best actor award of the 44th Taiwan Golden Horse Film Awards and the best actor award of the 2nd Asian Film Awards.
In 2008, he played Zhou Yu in the epic film Red Cliff directed by John Woo.
In 2011, he collaborated with Wong Kar Wai in the movie "the great master", playing Ye man, the great master of Wing Chun; in the same year, he collaborated with director Er Dongsheng again, starring in the movie "the great magician".
In 2012, he starred in the movie the listener.
In 2013, due to the Diaoyu Islands incident, he refused to play the co production 1905 directed by Kurosawa.
In February 2014, he was invited to be a member of the jury and a prize winner of the main competition unit of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. On September 10 of the same year, Tony Leung and Faye Wong attended Buddhist activities in Hong Kong, and they even sang the Heart Sutra on stage. Tony Leung said that he had gone out of his way to find Jacky Cheung to guide the practice.
On January 8, 2015, the 3D version of master of the generation was released; on June 8, Liang Chaowei won the medal of French art and literature officer; on September 25, the advertising film MARUMI's eyes was screened and premiered on the top four satellite TV stations in China; in the same year, he took over the film ferry man supervised by Wang Jiawei.
In September 2016, MARUMI's trilogy "not afraid of the dark", CO starring with Zhou Xun, premiered exclusively on Hunan Satellite TV; in November, Tony Leung decided to join the costume comedy "catch the demon 2"; on December 14, he joined Li Yuchun to sing the theme song "ten years" of "ferry man".
In June 2017, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially announced that Tony Leung became a member of the "2017 Oscars" and starred in the film "when the wind blows again" in the same year.
On June 22, 2018, the manager contract with Zedong film company ended, and Carina Lau was the contact person of the contact agent company. In the same year, she won the Chaplin filmmaker art achievement award and became the first Asian filmmaker to win the award.
In May 2019, he will play Dai Yichen in the movie fox hunt directed by Zhang Lijia; in July, he will join Marvel comics to adapt the movie Shangqi and Shijie legend and play the villain Wenwu.
On February 19, 2021, Hong Kong media reported that Zhuang Wenqiang, the screenwriter of Infernal Affairs series, will shoot his new work golden finger, and act as director and screenwriter at the same time, starring Tony Leung, Andy Lau and Ren Dahua.
Personal life
Tony Leung met Zeng Huaqian in 1983. He fell in love with Zeng Huaqian at first sight, who is still in the training class for TVB artists. He praised her for her innocence and cooperated with many works. With the development of their respective careers and the conflict of their personalities, they had no fate after six years of separation and combination. Their relationship broke up for the third time in mid-1988 and ended irretrievably.
In the middle of 1986, Tony Leung met Li Meixian when he filmed the story of killing the Dragon by relying on heaven. After the drama was finished, Liang Chaowei pursued Li Meixian. They had an open relationship from mid-1986 to 1988, and broke up after they finished filming "two conceits of the peerless generation.".
At the end of 1988, Tony Leung and Carina Lau rehearsed the stage drama "the man with a heart", and started a 20-year love run. On July 21, 2008, Tony Leung and Carina Lau married in Bhutan, a Buddhist country in South Asia.
Main works
Take part in the film
Take part in TV series
Music Album
Unit play
musical play
the living theatre
Dubbing works
Film review
social activities
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