Kevin Cheng
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Kevin Cheng in 2007.
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| Chinese name | 鄭嘉穎 (traditional) | ||||||||||||
| Chinese name | 郑嘉颖 (simplified) | ||||||||||||
| Pinyin | Zhèng Jiāyǐng (Mandarin) | ||||||||||||
| Jyutping | Zeng6 Gaa1-wing6 (Cantonese) | ||||||||||||
| Origin | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||
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15 August 1969 San Francisco, California, United States |
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| Occupation | Actor, singer | ||||||||||||
| Genre(s) | Cantopop | ||||||||||||
| Instrument(s) | Vocals | ||||||||||||
| Voice type(s) | Baritone | ||||||||||||
| Label(s) |
PolyGram UMG |
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| Years active | 1993–present | ||||||||||||
| Partner(s) | Grace Chan | ||||||||||||
| Ancestry | Nanhai District, Foshan, Guangdong, China | ||||||||||||
| Website |
www.kevincheng.com.hk Official TVB Blog |
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Kevin Cheng Ka-wing (born 15 August 1969) is a Hong Kong American actor and singer who is currently under the management of the Hong Kong television network TVB. Cheng rose to fame in late 2004 after playing his first lead role in the TVB drama Hard Fate.
He is best known for his role as "L.A. Law" in the 2011 TVB legal drama Ghetto Justice, which earned him a TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actor and Asian Television Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Cheng was born in San Francisco but he moved to Hong Kong at a very young age and spent most of his childhood there. He attended Pun U Association Wah Yah Primary School, Wah Yan College and the Hong Kong International School in Hong Kong, and in Alhambra High School in the United States. During his school days, his mother sent him back to San Francisco, where he lived with his uncle for two years before returning to Hong Kong after his mother changed her mind about migrating to the United States. He completed his high school education in Canada. He pursued a civil engineering degree at the California State University in Los Angeles, but did not finish his studies because his father died and he wanted to move back to Hong Kong to be with his mother.
When Cheng was 16 years old, he participated in a singing contest organised by the Hong Kong television network TVB but dropped out halfway because he felt that he was not ready to be a singer at that time. Later, after he moved back to Hong Kong in his early 20s, he decided to continue his pursuit of a singing career. He signed a contract with the record label PolyGram in 1993 and released his first album in the same year to mixed reviews. He was seen as a newcomer with good potential and managed to win several Best New Artist awards in 1994. Cheng's manager later helped him launch his career in the Taiwanese entertainment industry. In Taiwan, Cheng released several Mandarin albums and acted in some television dramas, but all of them were only moderately successful.
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