Anthony Wong (Hong Kong actor)
Anthony Wong Chau -Sang (Chinese黄秋生, Huang Qiu - Sheng, born September 2, 1961 in Hong Kong) is a Chinese actor, director and musician. He is considered one of the most renowned character actor of Hong Kong and has won numerous awards. To the west is known Anthony Wong by the Infernal Affairs trilogy, Hard Boiled by John Woo and his collaboration with director Johnnie To.
Biography
Anthony Wong was born the son of a British and a Chinese woman as Anthony Perry. The father left the family when Anthony was four years old, so he took his mother 's surname. In school, he was often teased because of his Gweilo origin. These experiences he processed later in the lyrics of his songs.
Anthony Wong began his acting career at the age of 21 years in the TV channel ATV ( Asia Television ) training program. After that, he was educated at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Like many of his colleagues, he appeared in a series of the TV station TVB ( Television Broadcasts ) before he made the leap to the big screen. His first major role offered him the Shaw Brothers production My Name Is not Suzie (1985).
However, not until the Category III shocker The Untold Story ( 1993) and the action film Hard Boiled ( 1992) by John Woo enabled him to breakthrough to stardom. For the role of the serial killer Wong Chi Hang in The Untold Story Anthony Wong won including the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor.
In the nineties, he took another major roles in Category III -digging ( Ebola Syndrome (1996)), action films ( Rock n 'Roll Cop ( 1994)) and shone with supporting roles in blockbusters such as the Young and Dangerous series. Another highlight of his career was marked by the cop thriller Beast Cops (1998), which won him his second Hong Kong Film Award. The critically acclaimed film marked a comeback for Wong, who was previously diagnosed with a severe thyroid dysfunction.
A year later, Wong turned along with other Hong Kong greats like Francis Ng and Simon Yam, the gangster film The Mission ( 1999), his fifth collaboration with director Johnnie To Success. The new millennium brought another increase his popularity, when he took over the role of SP Wong in the hugely successful Infernal Affairs trilogy.
Since then, Wong appeared now and again in international productions, as in the literary adaptation The Painted Veil (2006) with Edward Norton and Naomi Watts, and in the third part of the Mummy series The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008).
Anthony Wong is known for its ambivalent role election, in which low-budget productions by Wong Jing alternating with high-quality artistic films of Ann Hui and Sylvia Chang or blockbusters by Andrew Lau. He was celebrated and acclaimed for its extreme versatility, whether he is playing a psychopathic killer, corrupt policemen or lovable father figures. He never saves off the film cameras with criticism of its domestic film industry and the Hong Kong entertainment circus.
When he's not making movies, Anthony Wong is on stage or takes punk rock albums.
Awards
Golden Horse Film Festival
- 2002 - Price Best Supporting Actor, for Princess -D
- 2003 - Price Best Supporting Actor, for Infernal Affairs
- 2005 - Price Best Supporting Actor, for Initial D