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Leslie Cheung

Acting · Born September 12, 1956 · Hong Kong, British Crown Colony

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.”

Movies with Leslie Cheung

• Farewell My Concubine (1993) — Cheng Dieyi / Xiao Douzi
• Happy Together (1997) — Ho Po-wing
• A Better Tomorrow (1986) — Sung Chi Kit
• Days of Being Wild (1990) — Yuddy
• A Chinese Ghost Story (1987) — Ling Choi-san
• A Better Tomorrow II (1987) — Sung Chi Kit
• Viva Erotica (1996) — Sing
• Ashes of Time (1994) — Ouyang Feng / Western Venom
• Once a Thief (1991) — James / Jim
• A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990) — Ling Choi-san
• The Eagle Shooting Heroes (1993) — Huang Yaoshi
• Shanghai Grand (1996) — Hui Man Keung

TV shows with Leslie Cheung

• Dynasty (1980)
• Crocodile Tears (1978)
• Gone with the wind (1980)
• The Fallen Family (1985) — 方浩天
• 星空下的傾情 (1997)
• Dynasty (II) (1980)
• Agency 24 (1981)
• 珠海枭雄 (1981) — 六少