Sze Yu was born on 30 September 1962 and is a Chinese-born Australian actor, television presenter and retired badminton player.
12 Facts About Sze Yu
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Sze Yu started his acting career in Taiwan, while still a badminton player.
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Sze Yu has since acted in over 60 TV dramas in Taiwan and mainland China.
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Sze Yu's father Sze Ning On was a Chinese Indonesian badminton player who in 1955 arrived in China to play for the China national badminton team.
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Sze Yu started seriously playing his father's sport at age 9.
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In 1979, the Sze family settled in British Hong Kong and Sze Yu soon distinguished himself as the top player in the territory.
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Sze Yu was named to the Australian 1986 Thomas Cup team but an injury kept him away from the competition.
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Sze Yu did play at the 1988 Thomas Cup for Team Australia, coached by his father.
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In 1989, while nursing an injury in Taipei, Taiwan, where his father took over the Chinese Taipei national badminton team a year prior, Sze Yu was invited by Liu Li-li, a television director, to participate in her TV drama Wanjun, written by the creator Chiung Yao.
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Under the encouragement of his mother, a Beijing native, Sze Yu took on the supporting role of Zhou Shuhao.
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The series proved massively popular throughout the Chinese-speaking world, and Sze Yu, after winning the Australian International in the same year, decided to retire to pursue an acting career.
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Today, Sze Yu is still active in television, mostly in mainland China.