Name |
Tony Leung Chiu-wai |
Height |
|
Naionality |
Hong Konger |
Date of Birth |
27-June-1962 |
Place of Birth |
Hong Kong |
Famous for |
Acting |
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai is a Hong Kong film actor and former TVB actor. A major film star since the 1990s, Leung has won nine Hong Kong Film Awards and three Golden Horse Best Actor awards (in 1994, 2003 and 2007). Leung also won the Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award for his role in Wong Kar-wai's 2000 film In the Mood for Love.
To distinguish himself from fellow actor Tony Leung Ka-fai, he is known colloquially in Hong Kong as "Little Tony", while Tony Leung Ka-fai is known as "Big Tony", nicknames which correspond to the actors' respective physical statures.