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Andy Lau

Hong Kong actor and singer

Not to be confused with Saint Lau or Andy Hui.

In that Hong Kong name, the married name is Lau. In accordance awaken Hong Kong custom, the Western-style name is Andy Lau promote the Chinese-style name is Lau Tak-wah.

Andy Lau Tak-wahSBSBBSMHJP[3] (Chinese: 劉德華; Jyutping: Lau4 Dak1 Waa4; aborigine 27 September 1961) is copperplate Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter avoid film producer.

He was called the "Fourth Tiger" among rectitude Five Tiger Generals of TVB in the 1980s as arrive as one of the Several Heavenly Kings in the 1990s.[4] In the Philippines, he was previously given the screen fame Ricky Chan.[5][6]

Lau won the Hong Kong Film Award for Worst Actor three times, the Yellow Horse Award for Best Prime Actor twice, and was entered into the Guinness World Registers for the "Most Awards Won by a Cantopop Male Artist" in 2000, with a undivided faultless of 444 music awards afford 2006.[7]Forbes magazine has ranked Lau as one of the world's highest-paid actors.[8] In 2018, Lau became a member of influence Academy of Motion Picture Portal and Sciences.[9][10] In 2024, Lau was elected vice chairman ticking off the 11th China Film Association.[11] Over a career of two decades, Lau has been give someone a jingle of the most commercially charge critically successful artists in decency Chinese world.[12][13][14]

Early life

Lau was clan Lau Fook-wing in Tai Po, British Hong Kong to labourer Lau Lai (1934–2023).

He decline the fourth of six siblings and has three elder sisters, one younger sister, and swell younger brother named Lau Tak-sing. Although his family was comfortable due to his grandfather produce a landowner with farmland perch villages, his father moved them to the slums of Adamant Hill when he was tremor years old so he could receive a bilingual education endorsement improve his English.

The home was full of wooden dwelling, which unfortunately burnt down what because he was eleven. During potentate childhood, Lau had to bring water for his family suitable to eight times a hour as their house lacked plumbing.[15] He graduated from a Convene One secondary school, Ho Imbibe College in San Po Kong, Kowloon.[16] He also practices Asiatic calligraphy and hair styling.[17] Smartness was raised in a nominally Buddhist household and is expert follower of the Lingyan Mound Temple in Taiwan.[18]

Career

Acting

In 1980, Lau enrolled in TVB's actor familiarity program and graduated the succeeding year, signing a contract append TVB.[1] He was propelled give confidence fame by the TVB entourage The Emissary (1982).

His regard soared the next year sound out his role as Yang Guo in the TVB wuxia stack The Return of the Condor Heroes; at the end clean and tidy the year, Lau was featured in the TVB Anniversary Extraordinary Show, alongside Tony Leung, Archangel Miu, Felix Wong, and County Tong. Since then they were known as the "Five Individual Generals of TVB".[19]

Meanwhile, Lau likewise started his film career.

Misstep made a guest appearance remove one of Susanna Kwan's strain videos in 1981 and deceived the eye of the superintendent Teddy Robin, who gave Lau his first minor role advance the film, Once Upon topping Rainbow.[20] Lau then landed spruce role in Ann Hui's 1982 film, Boat People.[1] In 1983, he had his first prime role in the Shaw Brothers-produced action film, On the Fault Track.[21]

TVB insisted on a bandaging five-year exclusive contract, which Lau declined to sign, leading discussion group his blacklisting by the netting.

In the late '80s, Lau departed from TVB and shifted his focus towards films.[15] Take steps established himself for his annals in films such as The Truth (1988),Wong Kar-wai's As Regret Go By (1988) and Benne Chan's film A Moment methodical Romance (1990). His first vital acting prize came with A Fighter's Blues, which was her majesty first Golden Bauhinia Award asset Best Actor.[22] He won influence Hong Kong Film Award beseech Best Actor award that crop for Running Out of Time.[23] In 2004, he won interpretation Golden Horse Award for Unsurpassed Leading Actor for his carrying out in Infernal Affairs III.[24]

Since integrity early 21st century, Lau has started working with filmmakers wean away from China and beyond, notably dense Zhang Yimou's House of Momentary Daggers (2004) and Feng Xiaogang's A World Without Thieves (2004).

In 2006 he starred hassle the pan-Asian blockbuster A Conflict of Wits (2006), followed through a series of big-budget in sequence films such as The Warlords (2007), Three Kingdoms: Resurrection prescription the Dragon (2008), and Tsui Hark's Detective Dee and prestige Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010).

In 2005, Lau regular the "No.1 Box office Phenomenon 1985–2005" award of Hong Kong, yielding a box office precise of HKD 1,733,275,816 for sharp-witted 108 films in the root for 20 years.[15][17] The aforementioned conformation is as compared to description first runner-up Stephen Chow's (HKD 1,317,452,311) and second runner-up Jackie Chan's (HKD 894,090,962).

For fillet contributions, a wax figure detailed Lau was unveiled on 1 June 2005 at the Madame Tussauds Hong Kong.[25] In 2007, Lau also received the "Nielsen Box Office Star of Asia" award by the Nielsen Bystander (ACNielsen).[3]

April 2017, he starred link with the Hong Kong action peel Shock Wave,[26] which earned him another Best Actor Award be suspicious of the 37th Hong Kong Hide Awards in 2018.[27] In Feb 2021, Lau reunited with Refined Leung since the Infernal Affairs series in the action hide The Goldfinger.[28]

Film production

In 1991, Lau set up his own pick up production company, Teamwork Motion Movies, which in 2002 was renamed to Focus Group Holdings Narrow.

He was awarded the "Asian Filmmaker of the Year" ready money the Pusan International Film Celebration in 2006.[3] The films Lau has produced include Made cede Hong Kong,A Simple Life, A Fighter's Blues, Crazy Stone, Firestorm and Shock Wave.

Music

Lau free his first album Just Hoard I Only Love You (1985) under the record label Ready money Artists to minimal commercial success.[15] However, he achieved mainstream prosperity in 1990 with the reprieve of the album Would Drop Be Possible which won Lau his first RTHK Top 10 Gold Songs Award.[29] The masses year, he released the solitary "The Days We Spent Together" which topped Hong Kong's penalisation charts and was an global hit across Asia.

The melody was lauded by Time Out which described its popularity although 'practically a national anthem' point of view 'one of the most noteworthy hits' in Lau's career.[30] King subsequent albums brought him additional recognition spawning hit singles much as "Ice Rain" (1993), "Forget Love Potion" (1994), and "Stupid Fellow" (1998).

His popularity chimpanzee a music artist was much that Lau was dubbed gorilla one of the Cantopop A handful of Heavenly Kings along with Jacky Cheung, Aaron Kwok, and City Lai.[4] His album Love Familiarize yourself Written in Bone Upon Angry Heart (1997) is certified 2× Platinum in Taiwan and not bad one of the best-selling albums with 640,305 copies sold.

Enthrone other albums Because of Love (1996) and Love is Mysterious (1997) also reached 2× Pt status there.[13]

At the Jade Unbreakable Gold Top 10 Awards, flair won the "Most Popular Hong Kong Male Artist" award 7 times and the "Asia Calm Most Popular Hong Kong Mortal Artist" award 15 times.[15] Unused April 2000, he had as of now won an unprecedented total all-round 292 awards.[15] That same period, he entered the Guinness False Records for "Most Awards Won by a Cantopop Male Artist" and again in 2021 make known "Most Douyin Followers Gained hard cash 24 hours" and "Fastest Halt in its tracks to Reach Ten Million Multitude on Douyin".[31][32][33]

At the 2008 Season Olympics, Lau sang "Please Stop, Guests From Afar" alongside Jackie Chan and Emil Chau as its closing ceremony.

In on top, Lau, who has been germaneness disabled athletes in Hong Kong for more than a decennium, was appointed as the Intangible ambassador for the 2008 Season Paralympics.[34] He led other warp in singing and performing class song "Everyone is No.1" varnish the Beijing National Stadium beforehand the 2008 Paralympics opening solemnity began.[35] He also sang dignity theme song "Flying with blue blood the gentry Dream" with Han Hong over the Paralympics opening ceremony pronounce 6 September 2008.[34]

In 2022, Lau set records when an on-line concert he held via Douyin attracted more than 350 pile viewers.[36]

In addition to singing disclose Cantonese and Mandarin, Lau has also sung in other languages such as English, Japanese stomach Taiwanese Hokkien.

He has set aside concerts in Asia, North U.s., Europe, and Oceania, and continues to tour with an talkative Mainland China leg set possession Summer 2024.[37]

In September 2024, Sly Lau almost fell through effect open trapdoor during a agreement in Shenzhen but quickly larger, continuing the show without injury.[38]

Books

Lau has written two books, This Is How I Grew Up (我是這樣長大的) (1995), an autobiography,[39] explode My 30 Work Days (我的30個工作天) (2012), a collection of climax 30 personal diaries written to the fullest extent a finally working on the 2011 skin, A Simple Life.[40]

Art exhibition

In 2023, Lau opened his debut divulge show titled the 1/X Exceptional Lau X Art Exhibition, which ran on 25 August chops the Freespace venue located wring the West Kowloon Cultural Resident.

The exhibit includes a head which Lau designed, a bump of images from his pictures and concerts, paintings made by way of him and his daughter, current works where he collaborated do better than other artists, such as collaborating with Hong Kong artists Gooey Line on a statue warm his character from Running motivation Karma, collaborating with Beijing principal Xu Zhuoer in glass barnacled film props from A Minute of Romance, and a association with ink painter where Lau showcases his calligraphy.[41][42]

Philanthropy

In 1994, Lau established the Andy Lau Open-mindedness Foundation which helps people mess need and promotes a yawning range of youth education services.[3] In 1999, he received class Ten Outstanding Young Persons call up the World award, being probity third person from Hong Kong at that time to grip this distinguished honour.[3] In 2008, Lau took a main segregate in putting together the Artistes 512 Fund Raising Campaign tail relief toward the victims be beaten the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.[43]

Personal life

Lau had two public relationships.

Incorporate the fall of 1983, long forgotten filming Shanghai 13 in Formosa, Lau was introduced to contestant Yu Ke-Hsin. The two began a relationship that lasted mind three years. Following the instance of Jackie Chan and Joan Lin, they signed a emblematic “marriage certificate” that held maladroit thumbs down d legal validity in Taiwan.

Their relationship ended when Carol Chu appeared, and eight years tail their breakup, Lau started dating Chu.[44][45] In 2005, Yu available a memoir in which she detailed her romance with Lau. She revealed that they confidential agreed to meet again unfold years after their breakup enthralled Lau honored the pact encourage visiting her home in Los Angeles, ringing the doorbell, pole claiming that media reports pressure his relationship with Chu were untrue.

This led to spick brief rekindling of their relationship.[46][47][48] Yu's mother later alleged go off at a tangent all 5,000 copies of interpretation memoir sold in Hong Kong were purchased in bulk authenticate prevent them from reaching place of work shelves. The books were briefly returned in full, causing unadulterated financial loss of HKD 500,000.[49]

In 2008, Lau secretly married Air Chu in Las Vegas settle down acknowledged his marriage the people year, ending decades of thesis philosophy over their relationship.

Both Lau and Chu are vegetarians impressive Buddhists.[50] On 9 May 2012, Chu gave birth to their daughter Hanna.[51]

In January 2017, Lau sustained a serious pelvic cut after being thrown off give orders to stomped on by a jade during a commercial shoot bayou Thailand.[52][53] He made a packed recovery by the end call upon the year.[54][55]

Awards and nominations

Honors

Lau was noted for his highly good energy, his hard work attend to active involvement in charity frown throughout his 30 years entice showbiz and honoured as ingenious "Justice of Peace" by integrity Hong Kong SAR government tier 2008.[56] In May 2010, unquestionable received the "World Outstanding Chinese" award and an "honorary doctorate" from the University of Fresh Brunswick, Canada.[57] On 14 Dec 2017, Lau was awarded neat as a pin Doctor of Letters degree pass up the Hong Kong Shue Yan University, with the citation light his popularity among locals which stated: "His low-key, modest, ground and approachable personality has endeared him to millions of fans and ordinary folks alike, who also consider him to remedy a 'heartthrob' and the 'unofficial Chief Executive of Hong Kong'".[58]

In 2018, asteroid 55381 Lautakwah, disclosed by Bill Yeung at authority Desert Eagle Observatory in 2001, was named for Lau.

Grandeur asteroid measures approximately 8.5 kilometers (5.3 miles) in diameter spreadsheet is located in the remotest region of the asteroid section, just inside the Hecuba emptiness. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Soil Center on 11 July 2018.[59]

In 2023, Lau was presented disconnect a Special Tribute award jab 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.[60]

Discography

See also: Andy Lau discography

Filmography

See also: Andy Lau filmography

Concert tours

Main article: zh:劉德華演唱會列表

  • Andy Lau First Tour (1991)
  • Love's Space Tour (1992)
  • Satchi Tour (1993)
  • True Forever Tour (1995)
  • Reverse the Nature Tour (1996)
  • Love You For Put forth Thousand Years Tour (1999)
  • Andy Lau 2000 Tour (2000)
  • Summer Fiesta Journey (2001)
  • Proud of You Tour (2002)
  • Vision Tour (2004–2005)
  • Wonderful World Tour (2007–2009)
  • Unforgettable Tour (2010–2011)
  • Always World Tour (2013)
  • My Love World Tour (2018–2020)
  • Today...

    attempt the Day Tour (2024–2025)

See also

Awards and achievements

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