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Cheung Kwok Wing Wiki Biography
Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003) was a Hong Kong singer-songwriter, actor, film director, record producer, and screenwriter. Cheung is considered as “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, receiving numerous music awards including both Most Popular Male Artist Awards at the 1988 and 1989 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards. In 1989, Cheung announced his retirement from the music industry as a pop singer. Returning to the music scene after a five-year hiatus, Cheung released his chart-topping comeback album (寵愛) which achieved a huge market success. In 1999, he won the Golden Needle Award for his outstanding achievement as a musician at the RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Awards, and his 1984 hit song Monica was voted as Hong Kong’s “Song of the Century”. He was honoured as “Asia’s Biggest Superstar” at the 2000 CCTV-MTV Music Honours.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, a 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 areas 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 favourite actor in the 100 years of Chinese cinema. In 2010, he was voted the third “Most Iconic Musicians 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.” IMDB Wikipedia $30 million 1956 1956-9-12 2003-04-01 5′ 9″ (1.75 m) A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) Actor British Hong Kong Cheung Kwok Wing Days of Being Wild (1990) Farewell My Concubine (1993) Happy Together (1997) Leslie Cheung Net Worth Music Department September 12 Virgo Writer
Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor, Hong Kong Film Award for Best Original Film Song, Hong Kong Film Award for Timeless Artistic Achievement Award
Movies
Farewell My Concubine, Days of Being Wild, Happy Together, A Chinese Ghost Story, A Better Tomorrow, Ashes of Time, Inner Senses, He’s a Woman, She’s a Man, The Bride with White Hair, Once a Thief, The Phantom Lover, A Better Tomorrow II, Who’s the Woman, Who’s the Man?, Temptress Moon, The Eagle Sh…
Cheung Kwok Wing Important Facts
Leslie came out with the album “Salute” in 1989 and all the proceeds were donated to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Conservatory of music as a scholarship. After 2004, this scholarship changed to the “Leslie Cheung Memorial Scholarship”.
In 1977, Cheung won first runner up by singing Don McLean’s “American Pie” at the Asian Music Contest.
Worked as a bartender at his relatives’ restaurant and sang during the weekends.
In his early career chose his name “Leslie” after the British actor Leslie Howard and because of his love for the American film Gone with the Wind (1939). He liked the fact that the name Leslie could be either a male or female name.
Stated that he had a fairly unhappy childhood and was brought up by his grandmother.
Attended the University of Leeds in northern England where he studied textile management. He dropped out of university at the end of his first year when his father fell ill. After his father’s recovery, however, he did not return to England to complete his studies.
Cheung was bisexual and claimed so in an interview with Time magazine. He had denied it during the earlier portion of his career but “came out” in the 1990s after emigrating to Vancouver, Canada. In a 1997 concert Cheung openly revealed his relationship with Daffy Tong Hok-Tak. He became the co-executor of Cheung’s estate. A full-page obituary on Cheung in a Hong Kong newspaper listed Tong as his surviving spouse.
In the early 1990s he became one of the few Hong Kong actors who dared to play gay characters on-screen. Cheung’s first gay role was Cheng Dieyi in Farewell My Concubine (1993). In Happy Together (1997), Cheung played another gay role which involved him in graphic sex scenes and for which he was nominated for the Best Actor Award at both the Golden Horse Awards and the Hong Kong Film Awards.
On April 1, 2003, he jumped to his death from the 24th floor of the famed Mandarin Oriental Hotel, located in the Central district of Hong Kong Island. He left a suicide note saying that he had been suffering from depression. The day after Leslie’s death, his long time partner, Tong, confirmed that Cheung suffered from (clinical) depression and had been seeing psychiatrists for treatment for almost a year. He also revealed that Cheung had attempted suicide in 2002.
One of the first generation of PEPSI stars in Asia.
Most Favorite Chinese Actor in 100 years of Chinese Cinema in the poll held by Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd, Hong Kong Ferry Co. Ltd, HKFAA and UA Cinemas for the Centennial of Chinese Film History (2005)
He was named “Asian Biggest Superstar” by CCTV-MTV in Beijing China (2000)
His song “Monica” was crowned as “Song of the Century” (1999)
The first singer to hold 100 concerts at Hong Kong Coliseum in 1997
Member of the jury at Tokyo International Film Festival in 1993
The first Hong Kong actor who acted in a mainland China film (Farewell My Concubine, 1992)
Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998
He was one of the most popular singers in the 80s. He bade farewell to his professional singing career in December 1989 when he held 33 continuous nights of “Final Encounter of the Legend” concert.
Cheung Kwok Wing Filmography
Title
Year
Status
Character
Role
Yee do hung gaan
2002
Jim Law
Actor
Lian zhan Chong Cheng
2000
Jimmy Tong
Actor
Siu chan chan
2000
C.H. Yuen
Actor
Cheong wong
2000
Rick Pang
Actor
Yan fei yan mie
2000
Short
Actor
Lau sing yue
1999
Wing
Actor
Sing yuet tung wa
1999
Tatsuya Misawa / Shek Karbo
Actor
Ngon na ma dak lin na
1998
Editor
Actor
Knock Off
1998
Young Worker (Skinny Freight)
Actor
Gau sing biu choi
1998
Ma Lun Cheung / Tok Choi
Actor
Hong se lian ren
1998
Jin
Actor
Who’s the Man, Who’s the Woman
1997
Sam Koo Gai Ming
Actor
Happy Together
1997
Ho Po-wing
Actor
Se qing nan nu
1996
Sing
Actor
Xin Shang Hai tan
1996
Hui Man Keung (as Lesile K.W. Cheung)
Actor
Feng yue
1996
Yu Zhongliang
Actor
Tri-Star
1996
Father Zhong Guoqiang
Actor
Ye ban ge sheng
1995
Song Danping
Actor
Jin yu man tang
1995
Chiu
Actor
Ji de… xiang jiao cheng shu shi II: Chu lian qing ren
1994
Cameo appearance (uncredited)
Actor
Jin xiu qian cheng
1994
Lam Chiu-Wing
Actor
Dung che sai duk
1994
Ou-yang Feng
Actor
Gam chi yuk yip
1994
Sam Koo Gai Ming
Actor
Daai foo ji ga
1994
Francis
Actor
Bai fa mo nu zhuan II
1993
Cho Yi-Hang
Actor
The Bride with White Hair
1993
Zhuo Yi-Hang
Actor
Se diu ying hung ji dung sing sai jau
1993
HuangYao-shih
Actor
Fa tin hei si
1993
David Copper Feel
Actor
Farewell My Concubine
1993
Cheng Dieyi (segment “Douzi”)
Actor
Lam Gong juen ji fan fei jo fung wan
1992
Teddy
Actor
All’s Well, Ends Well
1992
Shang So
Actor
Zong heng si hai
1991
James – Jim
Actor
Days of Being Wild
1990
Yuddy
Actor
A Chinese Ghost Story II
1990
Ling Choi San
Actor
Miss Asia Pagaent 1989
1989
TV Movie
Guest performer / singer
Actor
Mad Mission V: The Terracotta Hit
1989
Brother Thief
Actor
Sha zhi lian
1988
Chi Ken-Wing
Actor
A Better Tomorrow II
1987
Sung Tse-Kit
Actor
Yan zhi kou
1987
Chan Chen-Pang
Actor
Sien nui yau wan
1987
Ling Choi San
Actor
Ou ran
1986
Louie
Actor
A Better Tomorrow
1986
Sung Tse-Kit
Actor
Wei ni zhong qing
1985
Piggy Chan
Actor
Qiu ai fan dou xing
1985
Actor
San wen zhi
1984
Actor
Sheng dan kuai le
1984
Actor
Yuen fan
1984
Paul
Actor
Nong boon do ching
1984
TV Mini-Series
Chim Siyu
Actor
Long feng zhi duo xing
1984
Chan
Actor
Yang guo yu xiao long nu
1983
Actor
Di yi ci
1983
Actor
Gu shou
1983
Actor
Lie huo qing chun
1982
Louis
Actor
Chong ji 21
1982
Actor
Ning meng ke le
1982
Chen, Jackson
Actor
Shi ye sheng
1981
Actor
Shi ye sheng
1980
Actor
Hot choi
1980
Gigo
Actor
Fau sun luk gip
1980
TV Series
Che Sui-sung
Actor
Gou yao gou gu
1978
Actor
Hong lou chun shang chun
1978
Actor
Ye ban ge sheng
1995
composer: theme music / theme vocals
Music Department
Sha zhi lian
1988
theme vocals
Music Department
A Better Tomorrow II
1987
playback singer
Music Department
Lie huo qing chun
1982
theme vocals
Music Department
Ning meng ke le
1982
vocals
Music Department
Who’s the Man, Who’s the Woman
1997
music: “Love with all my heart” / performer: “Love with all my heart”
Soundtrack
Ye ban ge sheng
1995
music: “Song at Midnight”, “Hug in Deep Love”, “Lose You Always” / performer: “Song at Midnight”, “Hug in Deep Love”, “Lose You Always”