Tony Leung Chiu Wai () (natural June 27, 1962) is a Hong Kong movie and ex-television actor. He is does'nt to exist as confused by owning an additional actor, Tony Leung Ka-Fai.

Innate inside Hong Kong, with ancestry around Taishan, Guangdong, China, Tony Leung was brought up under one-parent personal by his mother. Inside 1982, after passing a step by step training courses of the channel "TVB", Tony Leung became an actor and became known for his comedy roles within television and film. When you took his career he presently showed his versatility around astir Sixty films.

Numbers of assume Tony Leung's breakthrough role to become around director John Woo's 1992 action film Hard Boiled acting alongside with Chow Yun-Fat. Leung notwithstanding number one gained international exposure across Hou Hsiao-Hsien's 1989 film A City of Sadness, which won the Venice Golden Lion.

Tony Leung typically collaborates by using director Wong Kar-wai and has appeared in numerous of his films. His virtually all notable roles inside Wong Kar-wai's films include his lonely officer within Chungking Express (1994), his homosexual Chinese expatriate sleep around Argentina in Happy Together (1997), and the pent-up victim of fornication inside In the Mood for Love (2000), for which he won the Better Actor award at Cannes.

He is considered by numerous to exist as a finest actor around Hong Kong of his generation. Robert de Niro, who is an admirer of his act, has known as Leung Asia's guide to Clark Gable. He is adept friends sustaining actor & comedian Stephen Chow.

His life partner since 1989 has been the actress Carina Lau; although their relationship is a stable 1, it don't keep around intention of marriage.

Leung too has an in-&-off Cantopop singing career. He co-sang a theme song of Infernal Affairs sustaining Andy Lau.

Awards and nominations
Cannes Film Festival Best Actor award in 2000 (In the Mood for Love) Golden Horse Film Festival Better actor award around 2003 (Infernal Affairs) Better actor award inside 1994 (Chungking Express) Hong Kong Film Awards Best Actor awards. Nominative ninefold, won 5 days: 2005 Won Better Actor (2046) 2003 Won Better Actor, for his role when a hole-and-corner bull Yan (Infernal Affairs) 2001 Won Better Actor (In the Mood for Love) 1999 Nominated Better Actor (Hanker Nite) 1998 Won Better Actor (Happy Together) 1995 Won Better Actor (Chungking Express) 1993 Nominative Better Supporting Actor (Arduous-Boiled) 1990 Won Right Supporting Actor (Our Heart Is That Eternal Rose) 1988 Won Better Supporting Actor (''Population's Hero) 1987 Nominated Better Actor (Love Unto Waste) Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards Best Actor award in 2004 (2046)

Filmography, as actor, includes

The Battle of Red Cliff (2006) Seoul Raiders (2005) 2046 (2004) Super Model (2004) Sound of Colors (2003) Infernal Affairs 3 (2003) My Lucky Star (2003) Hero (2002) Infernal Affairs (2002) Chinese Odyssey 2002 (2002) Love Me, Love My Money (2001) Fighting for Love (2001) Healing Hearts (2000) In the Mood for Love (2000) Tokyo Raiders (2000) Gorgeous (1999) Your Place or Mine (1998) Flowers of Shanghai (1998) Timeless Romance (1998) The Longest Nite (1998) Chinese Midnight Express (1997) 97 Aces Go Places (1997) Happy Together (1997) War of the Underworld (1996) Blind Romance (1996) Cyclo (1995) Heaven Can't Wait (1995) Dr. Mack (1995) Ashes of Time (1994) Chungking Express (1994) The Returning (1994) Always Be the Winners (1994) He Ain't Heavy, He's My Father (1993) Tom, Dick, and Hairy (1993) The Magic Crane (1993) Two of a Kind (1993) Hero - Beyond The Boundary Of Time (1993) Three Summers (1993) End Of The Road (1993) Butterfly and Sword (1993) The Eagle Shooting Heroes (1993) The Days of Being Dumb (1992) Come Fly the Dragon (1992) Lucky Encounter (1992) Hard Boiled (1992) The Banquet (1991) Chinese Ghost Story 3 (1991) The Tigers (1991) Don't Fool Me (1991) The Great Pretenders (1991) Fantasy Romance (1991) Bullet in the Head (1990) The Royal Scoundrel (1990) A City of Sadness (1989) Seven Warriors (1989) My Heart is that Eternal Rose (1989) I Love Maria (1988) People's Hero (1987) You Will I Will (1986) Happy Go Lucky (1987) Love Unto Waste (1986) The Lunatics (1986) Young Cops (1985) Fascinating Affairs (1985) Mad Mad 83'' (1983)