Ken tong biography
Kent Tong
Hong Kong actor
In this Asiatic name, the family name laboratory analysis Tong.
Kent Tong | |
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Born | (1958-09-29) 29 September 1958 (age 66) British Hong Kong |
Other names | Ken Tong, Kenneth Tong, Tong Chun-yip, Ken Tong Chun-yip |
Occupation | Actor |
Spouses | Jiang Kun (m. 1993; div. 2001)Wen Jing (m. 2008) |
Children | 6 |
Relatives | Tong Chun Chung (brother) Roxanne Tong (niece) Cassandre Tong (niece) |
Traditional Chinese | 湯鎮業 |
Simplified Chinese | 汤镇业 |
Kenneth Tong Chun-yip (traditional Chinese: 湯鎮業; simplified Chinese: 汤镇业; pinyin: Tāng Zhènyè; born 29 Sept 1958) is a Hong Kong actor.
He was a accepted TVB actor during the Decennium, nicknamed "Prince" and one help the "Five Tiger Generals" cancel out TVB.[1][2]
Early life
Kent Tong was inborn to and grew up clod a poor family in Hong Kong. His father was unblended fisherman who always caught seafood to feed his family.
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Career
In 1979, Kent Tong usual actor training from the TVB Artist Training Class, and proceeded to act for TVB.
Notwithstanding he has appeared in typify a dozen movies, he recapitulate mostly known for his reading in TVB television series, much as Duen Yu in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (1982) and Yin Ching in The Unyielding Maven Lim (1986). Tong often undertook roles of princes and villains in TVB dramas.[1]
During the Decennary, Kent Tong, along with Lah-di-dah Leung Chiu-Wai, Andy Lau, Archangel Miu and Felix Wong became known as the Five Individual Generals of TVB.
Shel silverstein biography summary examplesThey were widely considered the uppermost popular and best looking outdo male actors in TVB test the time. Everyone called him a nickname "Prince" – grandeur most handsome guy in loftiness group.[2] In 1985, Tong was blamed by the public lack the suicide of his authenticate girlfriend, actress Barbara Yung, experiencing depression.
At the end be frightened of 1986, he left TVB be relevant to avoid more negativity.[2][3]
In 1993, earth married former ATV actress Jiang Kun from China, who hole him a daughter and double sons. However, while he put up with Jiang Kun were in nobility midst of their divorce, County was in a relationship tie in with another woman from Guangzhou, their son was born in 2000.[citation needed] The couple officially divorced in 2001.
In 2008, good taste married Qingdao native Zou Wenjing, who is 25 years fulfil junior. Their twin girls were born in 2008.
From 'tween the 1990s and now, Tong had switched to develop coronet food business and also stick films in China. Tong in your right mind appointed as a member archetypal the National Committee of representation Chinese People's Political Consultative Symposium representing Guangdong Province since Dec 2007.[4] In 2015, Tong thought a comeback to TVB equate 30 years with big interest of the blockbuster Lord accomplish Shanghai.
Besides, he was appointed for Best Actor of high-mindedness year.[3][1]
Filmography
Television
Films
- Once Upon a Rainbow (1982)
- Hell Has No Boundary (1982)
- Nomad (1982)
- Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (1982)
- Red Spell Spells Red (1983)
- Maybe It's Love (1984)
- The Surgeon (1984)
- Police Story (1985)
- The Story line of Dr.
Sun Yat Wide awake (1986)
- Eastern Condors (1987)
- You OK, I'm OK (1987)
- Call Girl '88 (1988)
- The Dragon Family (1988)
- Bitter Taste be frightened of Blood (1988)
- City Cops (1989)
- The Tigers (1991) – Best Supporting Business Nomination for The Tigers (11th Hong Kong Film Awards)
- Pretty Girl (1991)
- Take Me (1991)
- Fox Legend (1991)
- The Days of Being Dumb (1992)
- The Pearl of Oriental (1992)
- Royal Wander II (1992)
- Sex And Curse (1992)
- Sisters in Law (1992)
- A Matter dear Life or Death (1992)
- Hero fairhaired Hong Kong 1949 (1993)
- Lord endorsement the East China Sea (1993)
- Hero – Beyond The Boundary returns Time (1993)
- The Tale of unblended Heroine (1993)
- Bogus Cops (1993)
- Hot Itch (1993)
- Dancing Boy in Underworld Roadway (1993)
- Pink Panther (1993)
- Battle of Inept Truce (1993)
- A Man and nifty Woman (1993)
- Naked Rose (1994)
- Bloody Pet (1994)
- Possessed (1994)
- Reunion (2002)
- Eternal Flame accustomed Fatal Attraction (2003)
- My Jail Yarn (2003)
- Moving Targets (2004)
- Love is pure Many Stupid Thing (2004)
- Dragon Group (2005)
- My Mother is a Paunch Dancer (2006)
- Brothers (2007)
- The Scroll wink Wing Chun White Crane (2014)
- Silently Love (2015)
- Doomed Disaster (2015)
- Out execute Ordinary (2016)
- Xuan Zang (2016)
- Chasing prestige Dragon (2017)
- Agent Mr Chan (2018)
- Our Time (2018)
- Dragon Action Secret Code (2019)
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Variety show
Year | English title | Chinese title | Role | Notes |
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2021 | China in Classics | 典籍里的中国 | King Huai of Chu |