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One of the famous Hong Kong idol, Andy Lau, was born on September 27, 1961. Andy Lau is not only a superstar, but also as the hardest working entertainer in Hong Kong. His dedication and work ethic has won the respect and admiration of fans and critics alike. In little more than twenty years time, Lau has made over one hundred films and has maintained a successful singing career. Andy
Lau is known to some more for his good looks than for his strengths of
acting, though he has answered his critics since the turn of the century
in a series of critically acclaimed movies, especially those directed
by Johnnie To. |
Biography of Andy Lau
As
was the norm for many young stars at this time, there was an attempt to diversify
Lau by having him record an album. While these types of albums usually provide
some extra publicity and money for the actor, for Andy Lau they became a second
career. Though it took quite a while his first album (I Only Know I Love You)
came out in 1985 to a minor buzz. It was not until 1990, when Andy Lau had established
himself as one of Hong Kong's top actors and TVB came up with the "Four
Great Heavenly Kings" (which also promoted Aaron Kwok, Jacky Cheong and
Leon Lai) that he became a bonafide pop star as well.
Andy Lau's musical career intertwined with his acting, as he began to record songs for the movies he appeared in. Despite his success, Lau's career almost suffered a fatal flaw early on when he refused to sign a contract with TVB. Lau was blacklisted from Hong Kong television, and it was only through the intervention of Chow Yun-Fat (who was a friend of the director of Boat People, Ann Hui) that Lau began to find more work in movies.
However,
for many years the one thing Lau really wanted was to be taken seriously as
an actor. He was previously nominated for various awards for his roles in As
Tears Go By (1988) and Full Throttle (1995), but it wasn’t until 1999
that Lau finally got the recognition he so craved. He was awarded with a Best
Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards for his performance in Johnnie To's
Running Out of Time. In 2003, Lau won the award a second time, for his physically
and emotionally demanding role as “Biggie”, a monk cursed with the
ability to see the karmic fates of those around him, in Johnnie To’s Running
on Karma (2003). In 2002, the Golden Horse Best Actor Award eluded Lau by the
slimmest of margins (he lost by one vote to his IA co-star Tony Leung) for Infernal
Affairs (2002), but the second time proved to be the charm and Lau was finally
able to add the Golden Horse to his ginormous collection of awards when he won
for his reprisal of the duplicitious triad mole Lau Kin-Ming in Infernal Affairs
3 (2003).
In recent years, Lau
has also tried his hand at business, and started his own production company
named Teamwork. Among the films produced by Teamwork have been the critically-acclaimed
features Made in Hong Kong (1997) and The Longest Summer (1998), both directed
by Fruit Chan. More recently, Lau has continued to demonstrate his ability as
a box-office guarantee, headlining the Media Asia productions Infernal Affairs
(2002), Cat and Mouse (2003), and Infernal Affairs 3 (2003). (Yinique 2004)
Despite having a reputation of being hard to work with, Andy Lau continues to be one of Hong Kong's most prolific and bankable actors. In fact, there were times when Lau was so popular that he was working on multiple films as well as recording songs all at once, sleeping in his car as time allowed. This dedication to work seems to have finally paid off in one respect as Andy Lau won the Hong Kong Film Award.
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