Leslie Cheung
Acting
Born 1956-09-12
Died 2003-04-01
Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
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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 music albums and acted in 56 films. He was one of the most prominent pioneers that shaped the identity of Cantopop during the 1980s. His studio albums Summer Romance (1987) and Most Beloved (1995) each sold over 300,000 copies and are among the best-selling albums of all time in the territory. In addition to music, Cheung achieved pan-Asian fame with such films as A Better Tomorrow (1986) and A Chinese Ghost Story (1987). He won the Best Actor at the 1991 Hong Kong Film Awards for his role in Days of Being Wild (1990). His venture into acting in the 1990s was recognized for his portrayal of queer characters in the then-conservative film industry, he was one of the few Hong Kong actors willing to take on gay roles—such as in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together—or to play a cross-dressing opera performer in Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1993. Leslie Cheung died by suicide on April 1, 2003, at the age of 46, by jumping from the 24th floor of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong. In the note he left behind, he stated that he had been suffering from depression.
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Filmography
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A Chinese Ghost Story
Celebrity Talk Show
Farewell My Concubine
Dynasty
A Better Tomorrow
Viva Erotica
Crocodile Tears
Gone with the wind
Days of Being Wild
Once a Thief
Happy Together
A Better Tomorrow II
All's Well, Ends Well
A Chinese Ghost Story II
Ashes of Time
The Spirit of the Sword
Rouge
The Eagle Shooting Heroes
The Banquet
星空下的傾情
Agency 24
Dynasty (II)
The Bride with White Hair
The Chinese Feast
Temptress Moon
The Fallen Family
Tai Chi Master (II)
All's Well, End's Well '97
Moonlight Express
珠海枭雄
Hong Kong Tragedy
Nomad
Behind the Yellow Line
Shanghai Grand
All's Well End's Well, Too
Anna Magdalena
Little Dragon Maiden
Inner Senses
Girls Without Tomorrow
The Bride with White Hair 2
Double Tap
Pairing
Erotic Dream of the Red Chamber
Aces Go Places V: The Terracotta Hit
Ashes of Time Redux
He's a Woman, She's a Man
Fatal Love
Once Upon An Oridinary Girl
The Phantom Lover
Make a Wish
Okinawa Rendez-vous
From Ashes to Ashes
張國榮跨越97演唱會
It's a Wonderful Life
For Your Heart Only
Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of 'Happy Together'
Leslie Cheung Special '89
Who's the Woman, Who's the Man?
Crazy Romance
The Intellectual Trio
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