Dicky Cheung
| Dicky Cheung | |||||
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| Chinese name | 張衛健 (traditional) | ||||
| Chinese name | 张卫健 (simplified) | ||||
| Pinyin | Zhāng Wèijiàn (Mandarin) | ||||
| Birth name | Cheung Wai-kin | ||||
| Born |
8 February 1965 Hong Kong |
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| Other name(s) | Dicky, WaiKin,Killer,健仔, Dicky仔 | ||||
| Occupation | Actor, singer, songwriter | ||||
| Genre(s) | Cantopop, Mandopop | ||||
| Instrument(s) | Vocal | ||||
| Years active | 1980–present | ||||
| Associated acts | Big Four | ||||
| Spouse(s) | Zhang Qian (2007-present) | ||||
| Ancestry | Shanghai, China | ||||
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Dicky Cheung Wai-kin (born 8 February 1965) is a Hong Kong actor and singer.
He entered show business in the early 1980s, signing a contract with television station TVB. He won the third annual New Talent Singing Awards in 1984. Up until the mid-90s, Dicky struggled for many years working as a low-paid actor, singer and appeared occasionally in films. It wasn't until his brilliant portrayal of the Monkey King character in the 1996 TVB adaptation of the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West that his popularity began to skyrocket. A sequel to the TV adaptation was planned, but due to a contract dispute with TVB, Cheung left before production began. Benny Chan Ho Man took over the role of the Monkey King in the sequel. Cheung then went abroad to Taiwan to continue his career.
He has appeared in many Taiwanese television productions since then. In 1999, TVB's rival station ATV acquired the Hong Kong broadcasting rights to his Taiwanese television series Young Hero Fong Sai Yuk. Cheung played Fong Sai Yuk, a character also portrayed by Jet Li in his film Fong Sai Yuk. The show was an instant hit in Hong Kong and managed to gain much higher ratings than TVB's own television series. The TVB series showing at that time was Dragon Love, starring Benny Chan Ho Man, who replaced Cheung in the Journey to the West sequel, Journey to the West II.
Dicky Chueng was educated in St Francis Xavier's College in Hong Kong. He became interested in acting when he was in elementary school, stemming from his interest in analyzing human behaviour. For example, he always loved being in crowded streets or buses, where he could observe people and hear conversations. In plays, he would work as directors, actors, and scriptwriters.
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