12 Facts About Damian Lau

Damian Lau Chung-yan was born on 14 October 1949 and is a Hong Kong film and television actor, executive producer and film director.

Damian Lau enrolled into the actors' training class of RTV in 1971, where he started his early acting career.

In 1976, Damian Lau rose to fame for his portrayal of the titular character in Luk Siu-fung, an adaptation of Wuxia writer Gu Long's novel series of the same title.

Damian Lau was often cast as a typical silent, handsome, heroic swordsman in many Wuxia films of the 1980s and 1990s.

In Duel to the Death, Damian Lau's character faced Norman Chui's character in a final duel, said to be one of the best sword duels ever in Wuxia film history.

In 2006, Damian Lau starred in The Tokyo Trial, a highly controversial film that was nominated at the Cannes Film Festival and won the 2007 Golden Rooster Awards for Best Screenplay.

The film saw Damian Lau delivering most of his lines in English for the first time in his acting career.

Damian Lau represented his country at a significant international affair.

Damian Lau had to shoulder great responsibility as well as a lot of pressure.

Damian Lau returned to TVB in 1992 and achieved success for his performance in The Greed of Man, in which he played an honest and cultured leader of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, who was later murdered by his childhood friend, Ting Hai, over a love rivalry.

In 2003, Damian Lau starred as Chow Ming-hin in the family drama Point of No Return.

In 2007, Damian Lau played a family patriarch in The Drive of Life, a 60 episodes grand production by TVB and mainland China's CCTV.