Edison Chen
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| Background information | |
| Chinese name | (traditional) |
| Chinese name | 陈冠希 (simplified) |
| Pinyin | Chén Guānxī (Mandarin) |
| Jyutping | can4 gun3 hei1 (Cantonese) |
| Birth name | Chen Hing-wah () |
| Origin | Hong Kong |
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7 October 1980 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Other name(s) | EDC |
| Occupation | Film actor, musician, producer, entrepreneur, fashion designer |
| Genre(s) | Hong Kong hip hop, Chinese hip hop, Cantopop |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals |
| Label(s) | Clot Media Division (2007–2008) EEG (2000–2005) |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Parents | Edward Chen |
| Ancestry | Shanghai, China |
| Influenced by | Sammi Cheng, Leslie Cheung, R. Kelly, Janet Jackson, Jay Z |
| Website | Official Website |
Edison Koon-hei Chen (born 7 October 1980) is a Hong Kong film actor, musician, producer, entrepreneur, and fashion designer. Chen is also the founder of CLOT Inc., and the CEO of Clot Media Division Limited.
His native language is English, but he can speak and sing in Cantonese and in Mandarin and is conversational in Japanese, which allows him to be a part of multiple entertainment industries around the world. On 21 February 2008 he publicly announced that he intended to step away "indefinitely" from the Hong Kong entertainment industry due to the sex photo scandal in 2008, in which numerous photographs of his naked body and private parts, and those of several Hong Kong Chinese actresses, were published online. He returned in 2010 but other than a brief cameo in the 2014 film Golden Chickensss, he did not make a complete comeback to the Hong Kong film industry until 2016.
Chen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, of Chinese and 1/8 Portuguese descent. Chen's father is businessman Edward Chen (陳澤民), a Hong Kong entertainment industry mogul famously known as "Ninth Brother" (九哥).
He was a student at R.C. Palmer Secondary School in Richmond, British Columbia and also attended Hong Kong International School. He was in the same tenth grade class as fellow actor Nicholas Tse.
He spoke English as his first language before learning Cantonese and Mandarin later on. He speaks some Japanese as well. He also knows some basic Khmer since he had to learn it to play a Cambodian Assassin in Dog Bite Dog He has two older sisters.
In 1999, a talent scout approached Chen while he was clubbing with friends in Hong Kong. He asked him to film a commercial. He was at the age of 19 where he is featured in a Leon Lai's Citibank commercial. In the early 2000 he starred alongside Cecilia Cheung in a commemorative subway commercial.
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