Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Gender: Male
Born: 27th June 1962 (currently 49 years old)
Nationality: China
Movies: 2046, Ashes of Time, Bullet in the Head, Chungking Express, Gorgeous, Happy Together, Hard Boiled, Hero, In the Mood for Love, Infernal Affairs, Red Cliff, Fighting for Love, Tokyo Raiders, Flowers of Shanghai, Chinese Odyssey 2002, Butterfly and Sword, Infernal Affairs III, Cyclo, Don't Fool Me, A City of Sadness, The Tigers, The Banquet, Confession of Pain, Seoul Raiders, A Chinese Ghost Story III, The Eagle Shooting Heroes, Days of Being Wild, The Longest Nite, Hero - Beyond The Boundary Of Time, Lust, Caution, Your Place or Mine!, Healing Hearts, Ashes of Time Redux, Love Me, Love My Money, Red Cliff II, Love unto Waste, I Love Maria, My Lucky Star, '97 Aces Go Places, End of the Road, Sound of Colors, Bruce Lee, My Brother, He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father, Timeless Romance, People's Hero, My Heart Is That Eternal Rose, The Grandmasters, Chinese Midnight Express, The Grandmasters, The Days of Being Dumb
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (born 27 June 1962) is a Hong Kong film actor and former TVB actor. A major film star since the 1990s, Leung has won nine Hong Kong Film Awards and three Golden Horse Best Actor awards (in 1994, 2003 and 2007). Leung also won the Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award for his role in Wong Kar-wai's 2000 film In the Mood for Love.
To distinguish himself from fellow actor Tony Leung Ka-fai, he is known colloquially in Hong Kong as "Little Tony", while Tony Leung Ka-fai is known as "Big Tony", nicknames which correspond to the actors' respective physical statures.
Leung was born in Hong Kong, with roots in Taishan, Guangdong, China. Leung's early childhood was punctuated with parents' quarrels and arguments about money. A mischievous boy in his early years, Leung's personality changed when his father, a chronic gambler, left the family when he was eight; he and his younger sister were brought up single-handedly by their mother.
Leung became a reticent, quiet child. He has said that his childhood experiences paved the way for his acting career, which allows him to openly express his feelings: "You don't know what happened, just one day your pop disappears. And from
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