James Lye | |
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Chinese name | 賴興祥 (traditional) |
Chinese name | 赖兴祥 (simplified) |
Pinyin | Lài Xìngxiáng (Mandarin) |
Birth name | Lai Hing Cheung |
Born |
Singapore |
17 June 1969
Occupation | Actor |
Spouse(s) | Diana Ser (2004-present) |
Children | 1 son, 2 daughters |
Ancestry | Hakka |
James Lye (Chinese: 赖兴祥; pinyin: Lài Xìngxiáng, born 17 June 1969), born Lai Hing Cheung, is a former MediaCorp Singaporean television and Raintree Pictures movie actor. Lye first entered the entertainment industry during the 1990s with the former Television Corporation of Singapore and has starred in both English and Chinese shows. He left the industry after a brief acting career and is currently working as a Cluster Head with Citibank in Singapore.
On 27 June 2004, Lye married former Channel NewsAsia presenter Diana Ser after a nine-year courtship. The couple have a son, Jake, and two daughters, Christy and Jaymee.
Lye was educated at an Anglo-Chinese School and an Anglo-Chinese Junior College and studied at Arizona State University in the United States where he graduated with a 4.0 GPA.