Nick Cheung Ka-fai (; born 2 December 1964) is a Hong Kong actor, singer and director.

Background

He was formerly a

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officer for four years, but he left the job after his request to be transferred to the criminal investigation department was turned down. He then worked for Danny Lee's film production company. His film debut is ''"Thank you, Sir!"'', as a student at the Royal Hong Kong Cadet School. From 1989 to 1994, he worked at the television station

ATV World ATV World, was one of two free-to-air English language television channels in Hong Kong, the other being its arch-rival TVB Pearl. Its sister station, ATV Home, broadcast in Cantonese language. It is owned and operated by Asia Television, a ...

. Later, he left ATV and joined another station,

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. He left TVB in 2004, and worked mainly on films. His fame was built on

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comedy Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...

at first, but he has changed his acting style for more sombre roles since 2003. He was nominated for his first Hong Kong film award in 1999, and won his first award in 2009 for his role in ''

Beast Stalker ''Beast Stalker'' () is a 2008 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by Dante Lam (who also wrote the screenplay with Ng Wai-lun, and produced with Candy Leung and Cheung Hong-tat). The film stars Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung, Zhang Jingchu and ...

''. He has been nominated many times at the Hong Kong Film Awards and other Chinese film awards since. Cheung has won seven awards for his role in ''

'' (2008), including Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor,

Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor The Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor is an annual Hong Kong industry award presented to an actor for the best performance by an actor in a leading role. The actor with most awards in this category is Tony Leung Chiu-Wai with 5 times. He is als ...

, and Golden Horse Film Award for Best Actor. In 2013, he also won praise and Best Actor awards for his role as an aging MMA fighter in '' Unbeatable''. Cheung met Hong Kong actress Esther Kwan while he was still working at ATV. They married on 8 December 2003 in Australia. Their daughter, Brittany Cheung (張童; Cheung Tung), was born on 24 January 2006. Cheung earned 75 million HKD in 2014.

Filmography

Film

Television

Dubbing roles

Cheung has also provided

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voice dubs for foreign films and television programmes. Nick Cheung at chinesemov.com
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References

External links

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on LoveHKFilm.com
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