Born in Hong Kong, with origins in Taishan, Guangdong Province, China, he was brought up under a single-parent family. In 1982, after passing the training courses of the television channel "TVB", Tony Leung became an actor and became known for his comedy roles in television and film. During his career he soon showed his versatility in about 60 films.
Many consider Tony Leung's breakthrough role to be in director John Woo's 1992action filmHard Boiled acting alongside with Chow Yun-Fat. Leung however first gained international exposure through Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 1989 film A City of Sadness, which won the Venice Golden Lion.
Tony Leung often collaborates with director Wong Kar-Wai and has appeared in many of his films. His most notable roles in Wong Kar-Wai's films include his lonely policeman in Chungking Express (1994), his homosexual Chinese ex-patriate living in Argentina in Happy Together (1997), and a repressed victim of adultery in In the Mood for Love (2000).
He is considered by many to be the finest actor in Hong Kong of his generation. He is good friends with actor and comedian Stephen Chow. His well-known life partner since 1989 is actress Carina Lau.
Leung also has an on-and-off Cantopop singing career.
TonyLeung Chiu Wai (梁朝偉; born June 27, 1962) is a Hong Kong movie and ex-television actor.
In 1982, after passing the training courses of the television channel "TVB", TonyLeung became an actor and became known for his comedy roles in television and film.
TonyLeung often collaborates with director Wong Kar-Wai and has appeared in many of his films.
TonyLeung: 'The others thought I was playing a character, but actually I was living behind the character' Photo: AP Traditionally, Hong Kong cinema has exported martial-arts skills, tough-guy personas and the ability to leap from tall buildings in a single take - but its actors are only rarely in demand for their acting.
Leung is one of the few Hong Kong actors to have won an international acting prize (best actor at Cannes for Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love), and it's an exceptional year when he doesn't win something at the national film awards.
Leung was given the freedom to make changes to the character and the script; he changed several scenes, dispensing with a cliched "Let's drop our guns and duke it out" ending in favour of something more simple and elegiac.
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