Leslie Cheung

Acting · Born 1956-09-12 in Hong Kong, British Crown Colony

Biography

Cheung Kwok-Wing (Chinese: 張國榮, English name: Leslie, September 12, 1956 – April 1, 2003) was a Hong Kong Canadian singer and actor. Born in Hong Kong, Leslie Cheung moved to the United Kingdom in 1971, settling in Leeds, where he enrolled at university to study fashion design. After completing his studies, he returned to Hong Kong and, in 1977, took part in an amateur singing competition—the ATV Asian Music Contest—where he won second prize. The following year, he released his first album, I Like Dreaming. He soon began appearing on television and quickly landed his first film role in Erotic Dreams of the Red Chamber (1978), an erotic production that Cheung himself later described as a “shameful disaster.” Throughout a 26-year career from 1977 until his death, Cheung released over 40…

Filmography

• A Chinese Ghost Story as Ling Choi-san
• A Better Tomorrow as Sung Chi Kit
• Ashes of Time as Ouyang Feng / Western Venom
• Days of Being Wild as Yuddy
• A Better Tomorrow II as Sung Chi Kit
• Happy Together as Ho Po-wing
• Farewell My Concubine as Cheng Dieyi / Xiao Douzi
• Aces Go Places V: The Terracotta Hit as Brother Thief
• All's Well, End's Well '97 as Self
• The Bride with White Hair 2 as Cho Yi Hang

TV

• Celebrity Talk Show as 张国荣