Andy Lau (full name Andy Lau Takwa) is an actor, cameraman, screenwriter, director, producer, singer, one of the most famous and successful actors in Hong Kong. Lau is an Academy Award winner and twice nominated for the same award for Best Actor in Clash of Wits and A Simple Life.
Lau's career began in the early 1980s. He starred in the films People in Boats, Once Upon a Time on the Rainbow, and also appeared in the TV series The Legend of Master So.
To date, the actor has more than one hundred and sixty roles on television and in films. During the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, Lau sang the song "Everyone is No.1", which became the official anthem of the competition.
Biography facts
The boy was born in the fall of 1961 in Hong Kong. The family lived in one of the poorest areas of the city. There was not even water in their house, the children had to constantly run after it to the nearest water pump. The boy's father worked in the fire brigade. Mom was engaged in housekeeping and raising children, of whom there were six in the family: two sons and four daughters.
The father always dreamed that his children would receive a good education and be able to live with dignity by finding a prestigious job. Wanting to carry out his plans, the father sold a small plot of land that belonged to the family in order to move to Hong Kong, where the children began to attend school.
Creative way
Andy never dreamed of an acting career. Educated at high school and then at Ho Lap College, Lau once saw an announcement that they were recruiting for an acting course hosted by the television channel TVB. Then he decided that he wanted to try himself in a completely new profession. Therefore, I went to enroll in courses in 1980.
Two years later, Lau signed a contract with the television channel TVB and began acting in series. For several years he played roles in projects: "Emissary", "Prince of the Deer of the Mountain", "Return of the Condor Heroes", "Saga of the Young".
Lau decided that he should not be limited only to playing in television projects. Therefore, already in 1981 he appeared in several video clips of Suzanne Kwan. Then he was noticed by the famous director Teddy Robin and offered to star in the full-length film Once Upon a Rainbow, released in 1982.
In the same year, Lau starred in the movie People in the Boat, which broke the record for the box office and earned the young actor a nomination for the Hong Kong Film Awards (analogous to the American Academy Awards).
From that moment on, Lau's career began to grow rapidly. He starred in several more television projects and decided to come to grips with working in big cinema.
However, TVB, with which Lau had previously signed a contract, tried in every possible way to limit the actor's participation in the filming of feature films. A year before the end of the contract, Andy was offered to renew the contract for another five years, but he refused. Because of this, a conflict arose with the leadership. As a result, the actor was excluded from all television projects for a year, until the end of the current contract.
Lau did not film anywhere for a year, but as soon as his contract with TVB came to an end, he left television. And soon he became one of the most famous and popular actors in the cinema of Hong Kong.
In the early 1990s, Lau founded the film production company Teamwork Motion Pictures Limited. The first film of its own production was the action movie "Savior of the Soul".
Lau is one of the most famous actors in Hong Kong cinema. In addition, he successfully pursues a musical career and is one of the four kings of cantopop (a musical direction related to Hong Kong pop music performed in the Cantonese dialect).
In 2005, Lau was voted Hong Kong's most successful and grossing film actor of the past twenty years.
Personal life
Andy's fans are very closely following what is happening in the life of their idol. Until recently, the actor did not want to destroy his image of a "free man" so that interest in him would not fall.
However, rumors leaked to the press that Lau was dating actress Yoo Kye-shin. The girl wrote about this in her memoirs, published in 2004.
Andy then met singer Carol Chu. They started dating, and then they lived together. An attempt to hide the relationship was unsuccessful, the information still appeared in the media.
In 2008, young people secretly got married, but for another six months Andy said that his heart was free. When the secret was revealed, Lowe had to apologize to her fans.
