Damian Lau
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| Chinese name | 劉松仁 (traditional) | ||||
| Chinese name | 刘松仁 (simplified) | ||||
| Pinyin | Liú Sōngrén (Mandarin) | ||||
| Jyutping | Lau4 Cung4jan4 (Cantonese) | ||||
| Born |
14 October 1949 Hong Kong |
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| Other name(s) | Chung-tsai (松仔) | ||||
| Occupation | Actor, executive producer, Film director | ||||
| Years active | 1971 – present | ||||
| Ancestry | Chaozhou, Guangdong | ||||
| Website | lauchungyan |
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Damian Lau Chung-yan (born 14 October 1949) is a Hong Kong film and television actor, executive producer and film director. Lau has starred in many television drama series of various genres, produced by Hong Kong's TVB and ATV.
Lau enrolled into the actors' training class of RTV (now ATV) in 1971, where he started his early acting career. In 1976, he joined TVB on a contract and began to gain recognition for acting in television drama series produced by the TV station. In 1976, Lau rose to fame for his portrayal of the titular character in Luk Siu-fung, an adaptation of Wuxia writer Gu Long's novel series of the same title. His performance in Yesterday's Glitter also made him famous.
Lau returned to ATV in 1980. He worked with Michelle Yim, as the male and female leading actor/actress respectively, in a number of TV series in the 1980s, including Fatherland, Chronicles of the Shadow Swordsman and Rise of the Great Wall. Since then, both of them were called "Best Onscreen Couple/Lovebirds". Lau and Yim worked together again in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber (2000), playing Cheung Mo-kei's parents.
Following the rise in popularity of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s and 1990s, Lau also started working on films in addition to television series. He was often cast as a typical silent, handsome, heroic swordsman in many Wuxia films of the 1980s and 1990s. One of his first major roles was in John Woo's Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979), in which he played an assassin. In Duel to the Death, Lau's character faced Norman Tsui's character in a final duel, said to be one of the best sword duels ever in Wuxia film history.
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