Sean Lau
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| Chinese name | 劉青雲 (traditional) | ||||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | 刘青云 (simplified) | ||||||||||||||||
| Pinyin | Líu Qīngyún (Mandarin) | ||||||||||||||||
| Jyutping | Lau4 Cing1-wan4 (Cantonese) | ||||||||||||||||
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16 February 1964 Hong Kong |
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| Spouse(s) | Amy Kwok (m. 1998) | ||||||||||||||||
| Ancestry | Sanshui, Guangdong, China | ||||||||||||||||
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Sean Lau Ching-wan (born 16 February 1964) is a Hong Kong actor who has acted in both films and television series. He won Best Actor in the 2007 and 2015 Hong Kong Film Awards and in the 2000 and 2007 Golden Bauhinia Awards.
Lau was born in Hong Kong in 1964. He joined the TVB acting classes in 1983 and made his first appearance on television in the following year in the drama Draw Out the Rainbow. Dark-skinned with no matinee-idol look, he struggled to be cast as a leading man until he received the lead role in the immensely popular drama The Greed of Man (1992), where he acted opposite Adam Cheng. His wife, Amy Kwok, who won the Miss Hong Kong Pageant in 1991, is also a well-known former television actress and co-starred with him on The Greed of Man. Lau starred in two series with ATV in 1991 and again 2000.
Lau is one of a handful of Hong Kong actors who has made the successful transition from television to film; since 2000 he is now exclusively a film actor.
Lau made his film debut in 1986 as a child star and since then has been cast in an increasing number of roles. Amongst his more memorable roles include acting opposite Anita Yuen as a down-and-out musician in C'est la vie, mon chéri (1993) and in a number of cop thrillers, such as Big Bullet (1996), Full Alert (1997), The Longest Nite (1998), Running out of Time (1999), Running Out of Time 2 (2001) and Mad Detective (2007). He has proven himself to be one of Hong Kong's most versatile actors, handling comedy roles with aplomb, as in La Brassiere (2001) and Three of a Kind (2003). He is also well known for his supporting role as the troll in Finn MacCool, an independent piece by James Throgmorton III.
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