Leslie Cheung
Age: 46 | From: Hong Kong, China
Person Details
Birthday: 1956-09-12 18:39:54
Death: 2003-04-01 18:39:54
Aliases: Zhāng Guóróng , Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing , Cheung Kwok-Wing , 張國榮 , 张国荣 , Kwok-wing Cheung , Lesile K.W. Cheung , Guorong Zhang , 장국영
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Hong Kong, China
Homepage: http://www.lesliecheung.cc/
Movie Involvements: 45
TV Involvements: 4
Most Famous Work
Biography
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."
Most Famous Work
The Spirit of the Sword
(1979) 方宝玉
Farewell My Concubine
(1993) Cheng Dieyi / Xiao Douzi
Happy Together
(1997) Ho Po-wing
A Better Tomorrow
(1986) Kit
Ashes of Time
(1994) Ouyang Feng / Malicious West
Days of Being Wild
(1990) Yuddy
A Better Tomorrow II
(1987) Kit
A Chinese Ghost Story
(1987) Ling Choi SinActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | N/A | |
| 2021 | Self (archive footage) | |
| self | ||
| 2008 | Ouyang Feng / Malicious West | |
| 2002 | Jim Law | |
| 2001 | N/A | |
| 2000 | N/A | |
| Lawrence | ||
| Jimmy Tong | ||
| Rick Y.H.Pang | ||
| 1999 | Wing | |
| 阿Sam | ||
| Tatsuya Misawa / Shek Karbo | ||
| Self | ||
| 1998 | Jin | |
| Himself | ||
| Editor | ||
| Ma Lun Cheung / Tok Choi | ||
| 1997 | Ho Po-wing | |
| Self | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1996 | Sing | |
| Sam Koo Gai Ming | ||
| Hui Man Keung | ||
| Yu Zhongliang | ||
| Father Zhong Guo Qiang | ||
| 1995 | Song Danping | |
| Chiu Kong Sun | ||
| 1994 | Ouyang Feng / Malicious West | |
| Himself | ||
| Lam Chiu-Wing | ||
| Sam Koo Gai Ming | ||
| Roberto | ||
| 1993 | Cho Yi Hang | |
| Cho Yi Hang | ||
| Huang Yaoshi | ||
| David Copper Feel | ||
| Cheng Dieyi / Xiao Douzi | ||
| 1992 | N/A | |
| Shang So | ||
| 1991 | Little B-head | |
| James / Jim | ||
| 1990 | Yuddy | |
| Ning Choi San | ||
| 1989 | N/A | |
| Leslie | ||
| Brother Thief | ||
| 1988 | Chi Ken Wing | |
| 1987 | Kit | |
| Chan Chen-Pang | ||
| Ling Choi Sin | ||
| 1986 | Kit | |
| Louie | ||
| 1985 | Piggy Chan | |
| Leslie Cheung | ||
| N/A | ||
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| 1984 | John | |
| Eddie | ||
| Paul Chan | ||
| N/A | ||
| Inspector Chan Wing | ||
| 1983 | Yang Guo / Yang Kang | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1982 | Louis | |
| Ben Leung Man Bun | ||
| Jackson Chen | ||
| 1981 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| Wing | ||
| 大官 | ||
| 六少 | ||
| 1980 | N/A | |
| Gigo | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1979 | 方宝玉 | |
| 1978 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
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| N/A | ||
| Jia Baoyu | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Director | |
| 1999 | Director | |
| 1985 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Writer | |
| 1999 | Writer | |
| 1994 | Writer | |
| 1985 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Sound
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Theme Song Performance | |
| 1987 | Theme Song Performance | |
| Theme Song Performance | ||
| 1986 | Theme Song Performance | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |