1. Louis Koo Tin-lok is a Hong Kong actor, singer, and film producer.
54 Facts About Louis Koo
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Louis Koo began his professional career as an actor in local television series, receiving recognition for his roles in The Condor Heroes 95, Detective Investigation Files IV, and A Step into the Past.
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Louis Koo has collaborated frequently with director Johnnie To, starring in films such as Throw Down, Election 2, Romancing in Thin Air, and Drug War.
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Louis Koo Tin-lok was born in Hong Kong on 21 October 1970, and educated there.
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Louis Koo's father was an actor who later became a businessman.
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Louis Koo is an alumnus of St Teresa's School Kowloon and Carmel Secondary School.
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Louis Koo was sentenced to 22 months in the Correctional Services Lai King Training Centre.
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Louis Koo neither mentioned nor acknowledged the event to the public after joining the entertainment industry, only after being exposed by the media in 1994.
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In 1993, Louis Koo signed as a contract artist with TVB.
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Louis Koo started gaining wide recognition in 1995 with his leading role in a costume drama The Condor Heroes 95, a popular series based on a classic wuxia novel.
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In 1997, Louis Koo began sporting an extreme tan, which apparently enabled him to take on more contemporary roles.
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In 1999, Louis Koo received TVB's Most Popular Actor Award for Detective Investigation Files IV.
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In 2000, Louis Koo received TVB's Most Favorite Character Award for At the Threshold of an Era ll.
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Louis Koo took a different approach to his role in A Step Into the Past.
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In 2001, Louis Koo was given TVB's Most Popular Actor Award and Favorite Character Award Award for A Step into the Past.
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Louis Koo then went on an indefinite hiatus from television and has since focused on his film career.
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Since 1994, Louis Koo began taking on roles in films, such as the paranormal Troublesome Night series and many action films including Wilson Yip's Bullets Over Summer.
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Louis Koo acted as a mute boy living on rural island in romantic literary film Sealed with a Kiss.
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In 2004, Louis Koo took on the role of Sze-to Bo, a perpetually drunk and despondent former judo champion with hereditary eye disease, in Johnnie To's Throw Down which was premiered at the 61st Venice International Film Festival.
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Louis Koo won the award for Most Beloved Actor in the Hong Kong UA Film Awards 2006 through public voting for his role in Election 2.
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Louis Koo took supporting roles in action movies, such as Jackie Chan's Robin B Hood, Donnie Yen's Flash Point.
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In Sylvia Chang's female perspective gangster film Run Papa Run, Louis Koo played a reckless triad leader who tried to shield his daughter from his past misdemeanours.
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Louis Koo earned Best Actor nominations in the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Award for this role, which required him to portray a character from his late teens to his fifties.
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Since then Louis Koo took more challenging father roles and middle-aged roles.
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In Soi Cheang's Accident which was a competitive film at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, Louis Koo acted as a highly-strung killer-group leader who was good at disguising murders as accidents.
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In 2010 Louis Koo signed pre-paid contracts with Pegasus Motion Pictures, then appeared in its All's well, ends well comedy series, and it's anti-corruption film series.
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In costume A Chinese Ghost Story, Louis Koo acted as a Chinese Taoist "Exorcist" who fell in love with a fox-fairy and sacrificed himself in the end.
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Louis Koo made a return to his romantic comedy roots in Don't Go Breaking My Heart and sequel Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Hui, acting as a dissolute stock broker.
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In Drug War directed by Johnnie To, Louis Koo took on the role of a ruthless and deliberate Hong Kong drug lord who dared to do anything to get away from mainland China's death penalty.
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Louis Koo received a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor nomination again for his undercover cop role in Benny Chan's 2013 film The White Storm.
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In Out of Inferno, Louis Koo acted as a resigned firefighter who encountered a fire in a high-rise building.
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In Soi Cheang's SPL II: A Time for Consequences, Louis Koo took the role of an ill and evil mastermind of a criminal organization.
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In Johnnie To's Three, Louis Koo acted as a cop leader at the edge of crime.
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In Shed Skin Papa, a competitive film at the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival, Louis Koo acted as a frustrated director who came to understand his father after his mother's funeral and a series of fantastic incidents.
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In Paradox, Louis Koo played a cop who was determined to avenge his daughter, and performed most of the film's action sequences without the use of a stunt double.
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Louis Koo's performance won him the Best Actor award at the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards held on 15 April 2018.
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Louis Koo was captivated by Star Wars film series when he was a child.
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The sci-fi action film Warriors of Future, which Louis Koo produced and stars in, was released on 25 August 2022.
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Louis Koo was able to acquire the rights of the series A Step into the Past in 2015 and adapt it for the big screen - Back to the Past.
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In 2021, Louis Koo served as executive producer for two Hollywood animation films, The Mitchells vs the Machines and Vivo, with the former being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 94th Academy Awards.
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Louis Koo served as executive producer on The Garfield Movie, which was theatrically released on 24 May 2024.
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Louis Koo has been the ambassador of Hong Kong International Film Festival from 2014 to 2018.
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In 2015, Louis Koo joined the board of Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival held in Hong Kong.
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In Jan 2018, Louis Koo was elected as the president of Hong Kong Performing Artistes Guild.
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Louis Koo has published several books over the years including his photo albums Present and Cool, as well as his autobiography Find Happiness.
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Louis Koo released Toys Battle, a book chronicling his love for comic book characters and movie superheroes, and donated all proceeds to UNICEF.
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Louis Koo has been writing blogs everyday on his own website since December 2006.
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Louis Koo recorded several theme songs for the TVB dramas he had starred in and several TV advertisement songs he had endorsed.
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Louis Koo had cut four albums: Boyfriend and Popular Louis in 2000, optimism in 2001, Mr Cool in 2003.
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Louis Koo participated in designs of his own books, websites, company logos and some endorsed brands.
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In July 2012, Chinese microblogs caught on to the news of Louis Koo's low profile philanthropy in China, which became a trending topic, more and more people born in different remote rural areas found that local elementary schools were built with donation of Louis Koo, and upload photos to the microblogs.
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Louis Koo was reluctant to comment on the issue but it was learnt that Louis Koo set up his charity foundation after witnessing the devastation from the Sichuan earthquake in 2008.
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Louis Koo, was awarded the "Starlight of Fame " and "Starlight Influential Actor of the Year".
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In 2023, Louis Koo was honoured by New York Asian Film Festival with Extraordinary Star Asia Award.