Sean Lau

Sean Lau
Chinese name 劉青雲 (traditional)
Chinese name 刘青云 (simplified)
Pinyin Líu Qīngyún (Mandarin)
Jyutping Lau4 Cing1-wan4 (Cantonese)
Born (1964-02-16) 16 February 1964
Hong Kong
Spouse(s) Amy Kwok (m. 1998)
Ancestry Sanshui, Guangdong, China
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Lau.

Sean Lau Ching-wan (born 16 February 1964) is a Hong Kong actor who has acted in both films and television series. He won Best Actor in the 2007 and 2015 Hong Kong Film Awards and in the 2000 and 2007 Golden Bauhinia Awards.

Lau was born in Hong Kong in 1964. He joined the TVB acting classes in 1983 and made his first appearance on television in the following year in the drama Draw Out the Rainbow. Dark-skinned with no matinee-idol look, he struggled to be cast as a leading man until he received the lead role in the immensely popular stock market drama The Greed of Man (1992), where he acted opposite Adam Cheng. His wife, Amy Kwok, who won the Miss Hong Kong Pageant in 1991, is also a well-known former television actress and co-starred with him on The Greed of Man. Lau starred in two series with ATV in 1991 and again 2000.

Lau is one of a handful of Hong Kong actors who has made the successful transition from television to film; since 2000 he is now exclusively a film actor.

Career

Lau made his film debut in 1986 as a child star and since then has been cast in an increasing number of roles. Amongst his more memorable roles include acting opposite Anita Yuen as a down-and-out musician in C'est la vie, mon chéri (1993) and in a number of cop thrillers, such as Big Bullet (1996), Full Alert (1997), The Longest Nite (1998), Running out of Time (1999), Running Out of Time 2 (2001) and Mad Detective (2007). He has proven himself to be one of Hong Kong's most versatile actors, handling comedy roles with aplomb, as in La Brassiere (2001) and Three of a Kind (2003). He is also well known for his supporting role as the troll in Finn MacCool, an independent piece by James Throgmorton III.

Filmography

Television series

TVB

ATV

Films

Voice Over

Lau has done voice over of translated films from English in Cantonese and animated features:

Awards

Lau has won Best Actor Awards at the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards in 1997, 2001, 2011, 2014 and the Golden Bauhinia Awards in 1999 and 2007. He also won his first Best Actor award at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2007. He won this award acting in the movie My Name is Fame. He won his first Golden Horse Award in 2012 for his performance in Life Without Principle.

Year Award Category Film Result
199414th Hong Kong Film AwardsBest ActorThou Shalt Not SwearNominated
C'est la vie, mon chériNominated
199616th Hong Kong Film AwardsBest ActorBig BulletNominated
199717th Hong Kong Film AwardsBest ActorFull AlertNominated
Hong Kong Film Critics Society AwardsBest ActorWon
199818th Hong Kong Film AwardsBest ActorThe Longest NiteNominated
199919th Hong Kong Film AwardsBest ActorThe VictimNominated
Golden Horse AwardsBest ActorNominated
Golden Bauhinia AwardsBest ActorNominated
Golden Bauhinia AwardsBest ActorWhere a Good Man GoesWon
2001Hong Kong Film Critics Society AwardsBest ActorLa BrassiereWon
200323rd Hong Kong Film AwardsBest ActorLost in TimeNominated
200626th Hong Kong Film AwardsBest ActorMy Name is FameWon
Golden Bauhinia AwardsBest ActorWon
200727th Hong Kong Film AwardsBest ActorMad DetectiveNominated
200929th Hong Kong Film AwardsBest ActorOverheardNominated
201131st Hong Kong Film AwardsBest ActorLife Without PrincipleNominated
Overheard 2Nominated
201249th Golden Horse AwardsBest ActorLife Without PrincipleWon
201521st Hong Kong Film Critics Society AwardsBest ActorOverheard 3Won
34th Hong Kong Film AwardsBest ActorWon
Best ActorInsanityNominated

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Francis Ng
for Once Upon a Time in Triad Society
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for Best Actor
1997
for Full Alert
Succeeded by
Anthony Wong Chau Sang
for Beast Cops
Preceded by
Anthony Wong Chau Sang
for Beast Cops
Golden Bauhinia Awards for Best Actor
2000
for Where a Good Man Goes
Succeeded by
Andy Lau
for A Fighter's Blues
Preceded by
Francis Ng
for 2000 AD
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for Best Actor
2001
for La Brassiere
Succeeded by
Anthony Wong Chau Sang
for Internal Affairs
Preceded by
Tony Leung Ka-Fai
for Election
Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor
2007
for My Name is Fame
Succeeded by
Jet Li
for The Warlords
Preceded by
Simon Yam
for Election
Golden Bauhinia Awards for Best Actor
2007
for My Name is Fame
Succeeded by
Vacant
Preceded by
Nick Cheung
for Unbeatable
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for Best Actor
2015
for Overheard 3
Succeeded by
Vacant
Preceded by
Nick Cheung
for Unbeatable
Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor
2015
for Overheard 3
Succeeded by
Vacant
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