Sean Lau Ching-wan (born 16 February 1964) is a Hong Kong actor who has acted in both films and television series. He won Best Actor in the 2007 and 2015 Hong Kong Film Awards and in the 2000 and 2007 Golden Bauhinia Awards.
Career
Lau was born in Hong Kong in 1964. He joined the
TVB acting classes in 1983 and made his first appearance on television in the following year in the drama ''Draw Out the Rainbow''. Dark-skinned with no matinee-idol look, he struggled with minor roles until the immensely popular
stock market drama ''
The Greed of Man'' (1992), where he first achieved his
leading man
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status, and acted opposite
Adam Cheng
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Career
Cheng started his career in the 1970s, where he gained a reputation for playing the lead roles in TVB ''Wuxia'' drama series based on the works ...
. His wife,
Amy Kwok, who won the
Miss Hong Kong Pageant
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The current Miss Hong Kong is Denice La ...
in 1991, is also a well-known former television actress and co-starred with him on ''The Greed of Man''. Lau starred in two series with
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in 1991 and again in 2000.
Lau made his film debut in 1986 and since then has been cast in numerous roles. His critically acclaimed roles include acting opposite
Anita Yuen
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Pageant career
At the age of 18, Yuen entered the Miss Hong Kong 1990 pageant. She was a heavy favorite to win the crown from the semifinal to final. During t ...
as a down-and-out musician in ''
C'est la vie, mon chéri'' (1993) and in a number of cop thrillers, such as ''Big Bullet'' (1996), ''
Full Alert'' (1997), ''
The Longest Nite'' (1998), ''