Tony Leung Chiu Wai Movies and Career Information

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Jun 27, 1962
Hong Kong
Actor

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (simplified Chinese: 梁朝伟; traditional Chinese: 梁朝偉; pinyin: Liáng Cháowěi; Cantonese Yale: Lèung Chìuh Wáih; born 27 June 1962) is a five-time Hong Kong Film Award-winning Chinese film actor who is a former TVB actor. He has also won the Golden Horse Best Actor awards thrice (in 1994, 2003 and 2007). He has been a major film star since the 1990s. Leung won the Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award for 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 is a Toisanese-Chinese born in Hong Kong, though his family came from 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

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