Andy Lau
Andrew Lau Tak-wah BBS MH JP (Chinese: 劉德華; Jyutping: Lau4 Dak1 Waa4; born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer. He has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, appearing in more than 160 films. He has also maintained a successful singing career and is one of the best-selling artists in Taiwan. He was named the "Fourth Tiger" among the Five Tiger Generals of TVB during the 1980s while in the 1990s, Lau was branded by Chinese media as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop.
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| Born | 27 September 1961 | ||||||||||||||
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| Alma mater | Ho Lap College | ||||||||||||||
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| Years active | 1981–present | ||||||||||||||
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| Children | Hanna Lau | ||||||||||||||
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| Relatives | Lau Tak-sing (brother) | ||||||||||||||
| Awards | Full list | ||||||||||||||
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| Origin | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||
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| Instrument(s) | Vocals | ||||||||||||||
| Labels | Capital Artists (1985) EMI Music Publishing (1987–1989) Polygram (1990–1992) UFO Record (1992–1995) Bertelsmann Music Group (1996–2001) Catchy Entertainment Ltd. (2002–2004) Focus Music (2005–present) | ||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 劉德華 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 刘德华 | ||||||||||||||
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| Website | Andy Lau Official Website | ||||||||||||||
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By April 2000, Lau won an unprecedented total of 292 awards. He also holds numerous film acting awards, having won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor three times and the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor twice. In 2005, Lau received the "No.1 Box office Actor 1985–2005" award of Hong Kong, yielding a box office total of HK$ 1,733,275,816 for shooting 108 films in the past 20 years. Forbes magazine has ranked Lau as one of the world's highest-paid actors. In 2018, Lau was invited to be a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2023, he was lauded by the South China Morning Post as 'Hong Kong's most popular entertainer'.