Andy Lau Artist

Andy Lau Tak-wah MH, JP (born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter, presenter, and film producer. Lau has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maintaining a successful singing career at the same time. In the 1990s, Lau was branded by the media as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop.Lau was entered into the Guinness World Records for the "Most Awards Won by a Cantopop Male Artist". By April 2000, he had already won a total unprecedented 292 awards. In 2005, Lau was awarded "No.1 Box office Actor 1985–2005" of Hong Kong, yielding a total box office of HKD 1,733,275,816 for shooting 108 films in the past 20 years. In 2007, Lau was also awarded the "Nielsen Box Office Star of Asia" by the Nielsen Company (ACNielsen).

Personal facts

Andy Lau
Alias (AKA)
Hui Guo (慧果)
Lau Wah ()
Ngau Wah ()
Wah Zai ()
Birth dateSeptember 27, 1961
Birth place
Hong Kong , Tai Po

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Actor

Career started1981
Associated act
Five Tiger Generals of TVB
Awards
Infernal Affairs
Infernal Affairs III
Running Out of Time (1999 film)
A Simple Life
Running on Karma
Sitges Film Festival
A Fighter's Blues
Blind Detective
Protégé (film)
Made in Hong Kong (film)
1st Asian Film Awards
Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor
Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film
Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
Gallants (film)
W:id:Panasonic Awards 2007
Genre
Cantopop
Mandopop
Instrument
Human voice
Label
Warner Music Group
Sony Music Entertainment
Philips Records

Andy Lau on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.andylau.com