Tony Leung Chiu-wai (born 27 June 1962) is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He is considered one of Asia’s most successful and internationally recognised actors and was named as “Small Tiger” among the Five Tiger Generals of TVB. He has won many international acting prizes, including the Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actor for his performance in Wong Kar-wai’s film In the Mood for Love. Leung is widely considered the best native Hong Kong actor of his generation. He was named by CNN as one of “Asia’s 25 Greatest Actors of All Time”.
Leung is known for his collaborations with director Wong Kar-wai, with whom he has worked in seven films including Chungking Express (1994), Happy Together (1997), In the Mood for Love (2000), and The Grandmaster (2013). He also appeared in three Venice Film Festival Golden Lion-winning films, including A City of Sadness (1989), Cyclo (1995) and Lust, Caution (2007), directed by Ang Lee. Leung also stars in the Academy Award-nominated film Hero, and the box office hits Hard Boiled (1992) and Infernal Affairs (2002). Leung was cast as the Mandarin in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021).
Leung has a comprehensive set of awards that he has won in a career that began in the 1980s. For In the Mood for Love, Leung earned the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. He is also a seven-time winner at the Hong Kong Film Awards and three-time winner at the Golden Horse Film Awards, holding the record for most awards in the Best Actor category. The 2002 book East Asian Film Stars describes Leung as “undoubtedly one of the most successful and widely-acclaimed Hong Kong actors of his generation, with a broad and diverse filmography.”
Tony Leung Chiu-wai Biography / Wiki
| Name | Tony Leung Chiu-wai |
| Also Know | 양조위, æ¢æœå‰, Tony Chiu Wai Leung, æ¢æœä¼Ÿ, Tony Leung, Yang Jo-wi, トニー・レオン |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China] |
| Date of Birth | June 27, 1962 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 60 |
| Deathday |
Tony Leung Chiu-wai Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| 2046 | Chow Mo-Wan | 2004-09-29 | Women enter and exit a science fiction author’s life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love…. |
| Seoul Raiders | Lam | 2005-02-05 | Agent Lam (Tony Leung) sets out to track a pair of plates used to make fake American dollars. When he discovers the plates, they are conned out of him… |
| Lust, Caution | Mr. Yee | 2007-09-27 | During World War II, a secret agent must seduce then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission bec… |
| A Chinese Ghost Story III | Monk Fong | 1991-07-18 | Having slept for a century, the monstrous Tree Devil is now awaken and starts finding lost souls again. One stormy night, a wise High Priest and his s… |
| Bullet in the Head | Ben | 1990-08-17 | When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal’s life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally… |
| Red Cliff | Zhou Yu | 2008-07-10 | In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to… |
| Butterfly & Sword | Meng Sing-Wan | 1993-01-16 | A loyalist attempts to keep the King’s empire from being overthrown by a revolutionary group…. |
| Red Cliff Part II | Zhou Yu | 2009-01-07 | The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao’s massive forces on their doorstep, will the ki… |
| The Grandmaster | Ip Man | 2013-01-10 | Ip Man’s peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges hi… |
| Doctor Mack | Dr. Lau Mack | 1995-02-17 | Since dropping out from the medical school, Lau Mack has been living a humble but contented life, running a small clinic in a shabby area, treating lo… |
| Tokyo Raiders | Lin | 2000-01-28 | When a private eye, a jilted bride and a mysterious stranger join forces to track down an elusive mobster, there’s more than trouble in the air…. |
| Chinese Odyssey 2002 | Li Yilong | 2002-02-06 | The Emperor is desperate for the free-spirited life of a wanderer, and tries to escape from the royal palace with his sister, the Princess. He’s caugh… |
| Flowers of Shanghai | Wang | 1998-10-01 | Women struggle in a Shanghai brothel where everything only appears to be beautiful…. |
| Confession of Pain | Lau Ching-Hei | 2006-12-21 | In a city of love and prosperity, a city of lost hope and premature death, veteran detective Hei feels it all: the hurt, the helplessness, the horror…. |
| A City of Sadness | Wen-Ching | 1989-10-21 | The story of a family embroiled in the “White Terror”, mainland China’s political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintan… |
| The Magic Crane | Ma Kwun-Mo | 1993-08-18 | On his way to a congress of kung fu masters, an initiate falls from a high cliff, only to be rescued by lovely Tien Lam (Anita Mui), who rides a huge … |
| The Great Magician | Zhang Xian | 2011-12-22 | In the years after the Revolution, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. One warlord has imprisoned a girl… |
| Sound of Colors | Ho Yuk-Ming | 2003-12-20 | Ming a marriage consultant who runs into the charming but blind Yeuk through a little help of a guardian angel. The wheel of fortune is set in motion … |
| My Lucky Star | Lai Liu Po | 2003-01-23 | Yip is attractive but for some strange reason, no man has ever been interested in her. Yip meets Lai, a famous feng shui expert and she thinks that La… |
| Iron Butterfly III: Tomorrow | 1992-11-17 | Tomorrow is a Hong Kong made-for-TV movie starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai… | |
| War of the Underworld | Hong Fei | 1996-01-01 | When the son of a gang leader manages to insult the son of a rival gang leader, total war erupts between the rival gangs, and the young hero is forced… |
| Lucky Encounter | Dian Fa | 1992-06-10 | Two inventors encounter a friendly little ghost, and stumble onto a plot to capture the ghost’s uncle who was responsible for his untimely death. Howe… |
| The Royal Scoundrel | Beach Boy | 1991-01-10 | Beach Boy, a maverick cop whose unorthodox and incompetent ways are frowned upon by his uptight superiors. His inept partner Mrs. Chow isn’t much help… |
| Hero – Beyond the Boundary of Time | Wai Siu-Bo | 1993-06-12 | Wai Siu-Bo travels to the future on a mission to cure the emperor’s illness…. |
| Timeless Romance | Lau Yat Lo/Zhuge Liang | 1998-03-05 | Lau (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) is a policeman who meets his true love (Korean actress Chiu Ngan Suk) in the emergency room of a hospital. He’s being treate… |
| Three Summers | Wai | 1992-09-18 | Three Summers opens, a young man with a difficult past leaves his present home in the city of Hong Kong and hearkens back to the fishing village of hi… |
| He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Father | Chor Yuen | 1993-12-11 | Yuen scorns his father, who he thinks is too generous and forgiving. Through a flashback/time travel gimmick, Yuen meets his parents during their joyo… |
| Young Cops | 1985-08-08 | A typical Hong Kong comedy about young inexperienced cops that get into a lot of silly antics. The film is notable for featuring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai a… | |
| Healing Hearts | Lawrence Ching | 2000-09-03 | Intended as the pilot for a an E.R.-style medical drama set in Hong Kong, Healing Hearts features Tony Leung as Lawrence, a doctor whose personal life… |
| Heaven Can’t Wait | Wong Tai Fung | 1995-07-28 | Foreign – Tony is a wily, pessimistic scam artist who uses an ancient superstition to build a hilariously enterprising business. Lam is his sometime b… |
| End of the Road | Fan Long | 1993-01-01 | … |
| Two of a Kind | Billy / Lam Tai-Chi | 1993-09-16 | Two of a Kind is a Hong Kong Romance-Comedy starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai… |
| See You Tomorrow | Chen Mo | 2016-12-23 | Every city has its legends and this city’s legend is the ‘Ferryman’. It is said that a person who takes on this role can help eliminate pain and sorr… |
| Always Be the Winners | Master Sha | 1994-02-09 | Third Master Sha (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) is a descendant of a powerful gambling family who must battle Yam Tin Sau (Ekin Cheng), the descendant of the r… |
| Blind Romance | Wing Chi Wing | 1996-01-04 | Chingmy Yau is spunky girl-next-door Tung-Tung, who’s hot for rich guy Wing (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai), but she can’t say two words to him thanks to one … |
| Your Place or Mine! | Tony Cheung Suk Wai | 1998-09-25 | Your Place or Mine! explores the difficulties of finding true love in the modern Hong Kong setting via the encounters of two advertising executives, W… |
| Happy Go Lucky | Wei | 1987-05-21 | Tony Leung plays Wai, an apple polisher working in a finance company co-managed by Ma and Kang, both being brothers. Kang is the good brother, Ma, the… |
| Europe Raiders | Mr. Lin | 2018-08-17 | Mr. Lin and Ms. Lin are the number one and number two in the field. They are neither friends nor enemies, but they ultimately join hands along with tr… |
| Fascinating Affairs | Ah Kit / Lee Lun-Kit | 1985-06-22 | Fascinating Affairs – a Hong Kong Romance directed by Chor Yuen and starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai…. |
| Fantasy Romance | Stupid Shing | 1990-05-26 | Fans of Hong Kong pinup queen Joey Wang are likely to appreciate this ghost-themed seriocomic fantasy about a comic book artist named Shing (Tony Leun… |
| The Great Pretenders | Snake Wai | 1991-05-16 | The Great Pretenders is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai… |
| Chinese Midnight Express | Ching On | 1997-11-15 | Tony Leung Chiu Wai heads to prison in Chinese Midnight Express, a harrowing prison drama from director Billy Tang. The setting is 1960s Hong Kong, an… |
| Love Me, Love My Money | Richard Ma | 2001-01-01 | Skinflint businessman Richard (Leung) doesn’t feel bad when he sacks his employees and secretary to cut unnecessary costs. He also doesn’t bat an eyel… |
| The Returning | Lee Yick Cheung | 1994-07-30 | Chung has a book project that will make his career in publishing: a collector’s edition of the work of Siu Lau, a reclusive woman who died mysteriousl… |
| Fighting for Love | Veg Chiang Tung-Choi | 2001-10-10 | A traffic accident brings together Deborah, a high-strung businesswoman, and Veg, successful owner of a fast food shop that specializes in bull organ … |
| Seven Warriors | Wong Way-Wu | 1989-08-26 | In the early 1920’s of China, seven former soldiers band together to defend a helpless village against a group of vicious bandits in this Hong Kong re… |
| Monster Hunt 2 | Tu Sigu | 2018-02-16 | The sequel to Monster Hunt. Set in a world where monsters and humans co-exist, the franchise tells the story of Wuba, a baby monster born to be king. … |
| Crossroads – Strayed | Ah Man | 1983-01-01 | A young adolescent man (Tony Leung) gets into a scuffle with some local punks and things escalate into a crime. With his single mother ailing from a s… |
| Where the Wind Blows | Nam Kong | 2023-02-05 | In the 70’s, the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption (HKICAC) was founded. The mission to hunt down corrupted detectives unveiled a ne… |
| The Hunting | Dai Yichen | The Hunting follows police officers as they engage in a cross-border pursuit to arrest and repatriate criminals that have fled overseas. “Operation Fo… | |
| On the road of Master | Self | 2012-11-15 | … |
| Goldfinger | When a stock market crash causes the sudden collapse of a multi-billion-dollar company, an ICAC investigator uncovers a criminal conspiracy involving … | ||
| Hidden Blade | 何主任 | 2023-01-22 | During World War II, at the height of China’s war of resistance against Japan, a group of courageous citizens develops a top-secret underground espi… |
| 經ç†å¾Œç”Ÿ | 高å…æˆ | 1983-04-10 | Tang Shouqiang is desperate for a white-collar life and is desperate for a chance to fulfil his wishes. He was born into a wealthy family and works as… |
| 野花 | Ryan | 1992-03-21 | Wing, a wanderer, returns to Hong Kong to meet Ryan, the owner of the gallery, and they reminisce about the past. Wing is trying to earn a living by p… |
| 心窗 | 1994-04-11 | … | |
| æŸæ–¯æ¯šæ€æˆ‘æ„›ä½ | Tony | 1993-08-22 | A love story about a man-woman encounter in Australia… |
| 我å°é’春無悔 | Frankie | 1984-11-18 | Virginia is a strong businesswoman. She is an old woman in the company and no man has fallen in love with her. She is so desperate for love that when … |
| å¤ç¨ç‹€å…ƒ | å”國財 | 1982-07-04 | Cai, a highly talented student, is highly regarded and nurtured by the headmaster and his teachers, but this has led to jealousy among his classmates…. |
| 人生åŠå±±è…° | Self | 2023-02-08 | Special Film for the 40th anniversary of Tony Leung‘s debut… |
| Hero | Broken Sword | 2002-07-22 | One man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China…. |
| In the Mood for Love | Chow Mo-Wan | 2000-09-29 | Two neighbors become intimate after discovering that their spouses are having an affair with one another…. |
| Infernal Affairs | Chan Wing-Yan | 2002-12-12 | Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the poli… |
| Hard Boiled | Alan | 1992-04-16 | A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he jo… |
| The Longest Nite | Sam | 1998-01-01 | Caught in the middle of a fierce gang war in Macau, a corrupt cop named Sam handles negotiations between two Triad leaders who plan to join forces. He… |
| Cyclo | Poet | 1996-03-22 | Follows a young cyclo (bicycle cab) driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy’s struggles to scrat… |
| Infernal Affairs III | Chan Wing-Yan | 2003-12-12 | While Yeung Kam Wing is trying to remove all connections between the mob and him, his actions are being carefully observed by Lau Kin Ming, who bears … |
| Happy Together | Lai Yiu-fai | 1997-05-30 | A gay couple from Hong Kong takes a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning but instead begins drifting even further apart…. |
| 97 Aces Go Places | Chui Cheong / Drunk Gun | 1997-03-03 | Eternal 25 year-old Alan Tam is a wimpy triad boss who must avenge his dad because he had a heart attack after losing at cards to a pretty cat burglar… |
| The Days of Being Dumb | Fred | 1992-08-06 | Two losers who’ll do anything to try and be successful in the Triad world, but all they’ve accomplished is having a bad luck reputation…. |
| The Silent War | He Bing | 2012-08-10 | An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel “Year Suan/Plot Against” by May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a blind man who works… |
| Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of ‘Happy Together’ | Self / Lai Yiu-fai | 1999-01-01 | A making of documentary for Happy Together. Includes interviews, on-set footage, cut scenes and footage of crew members revisiting the locations where… |
| People’s Hero | Ah Sai | 1987-03-11 | Ex-gangster Sonny Koo finds himself in the middle of a bank holdup by two inexperienced crooks. The robbery goes awry, but before order can be restore… |
| The Tigers | Dandruff / Tau-Pi | 1991-07-02 | Cops find their careers and their lives in jeopardy when they spend a gangster’s bribe money after releasing him from custody during a drug bust…. |
| Tom, Dick and Hairy | Tom Chan | 1993-02-25 | Tom Chan, Dick Ching and his older cousin Hairy Mo live in the same tenement building but each of their love life is different…. |
| Mad, Mad 83 | 1983-08-20 | shaw production… | |
| Don’t Fool Me | Chiang Ho-Chie | 1991-12-09 | A gangster and a broker change jobs…. |
| Come Fly the Dragon | Liu Chia-Lun | 1993-04-15 | Come Fly the Dragon is a Hong Kong Action Comedy starring Andy Lau and Tony Leung… |
| Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | Xu Wenwu / The Mandarin | 2021-09-01 | Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization…. |
| @In the Mood for Love | Self | 2001-12-31 | A documentary following Wong Kar-wai and his cast and crew through the production of his 2000 film IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE…. |
| Infernal Affairs Trilogy (Chronological Edition) | Chan Wing Yan | 2006-12-12 | … |
| Miss You Much Leslie | 2013-03-31 | 10th Anniversary “Miss You Much Leslie†memorial concert held in 2013, commemorating the death of Leslie Cheung in 2003…. | |
| The Long Road | 2009-01-05 | A documentary on the filming of the movie Red Cliff… | |
| Gorgeous | Albert | 1999-02-12 | When Ah Bu, a girl from a small fishing town in Taiwan, finds a glass bottle with a romantic message, she travels to Hong Kong to find her prince char… |
| Chungking Express | Cop 663 | 1994-07-14 | Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-ni… |
| My Heart Is That Eternal Rose | Cheung | 1989-04-20 | A young couple separates under pressure from vicious Triad gangsters – she becomes a mobster’s unwilling moll, and he travels abroad to work as an a… |
| Cause: The Birth of Hero | Himself | 2002-12-05 | The movie follows director Zhang Yimou as he is preparing to make the movie Hero…. |
| ‘Hero’ Defined: A Look at the Epic Masterpiece | 2004-11-30 | … | |
| The Eagle Shooting Heroes | Ou-yang Feng | 1993-02-05 | A power struggle between the Queen’s treasonous lover and a princess occurs amid musical numbers, slapstick battles, and martial arts acrobatics…. |
| I Love Maria | T. Q. Zhuang | 1988-12-01 | RoboCop as a woman… The Hero Gang is a nasty group of thugs terrorizing Hong Kong with their killer robots, Pioneers 1 and 2. While Pioneer 1 looks … |
| Love Unto Wastes | Tony Cheung | 1986-08-30 | Four young people spend their time living the wild life – until one of them is brutally murdered in a burglary. The survivors come under the scrutiny … |
| Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait | Deer / Serene Mask | 2016-08-10 | The dazzling new film from Bhutanese lama and filmmaker Khyentse Norbu (The Cup, Travellers and Magicians) chronicles a sacred jungle ritual whose mas… |
| Ashes of Time | Blind Swordsman | 1994-09-17 | Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days in the desert, connecting expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to … |
| Days of Being Wild | Chow Mo-wan | 1990-12-15 | Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls’ hearts, tries to find solace and the truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn’t his m… |
| The Lunatics | Doggie | 1986-01-01 | A psychiatrist donates his time to help the mentally ill street people of Hong Kong. A reporter who hears about his activities accompanies him on his … |
| One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart | Self (archive footage) | 2021-04-02 | Tracing the beginnings of Jet Tone Films, which was founded in 1991 by Wong Kar Wai for the production of Ashes of Time (1994), the film features neve… |
| The Banquet | Wai Chai | 1991-11-30 | Developer Tsang Siu-Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties. … |
| 1:99 Shorts | 10) | 2003-12-31 | Shorts made by 11 directors in order to fight against the SARS epidemy that occurred in China and Hong Kong in 2003. The shorts were produced by the I… |
| Super Model | Interviewee praising Mandom | 2004-06-17 | Super model Mandom (Ronald Cheng) is very famous in the field. One day, he is threatened by someone, asking him not to attend a model competition. Man… |
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