- Roy Cheung
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birthname = Cheung Yiu Yeung
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yearsactive = 1980 – present
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awards =Roy Cheung Yiu-Yeung (zh-cp|c=張耀揚|p=Zhāng Yàoyáng; born 20 July 1963 in Hong Kong) is a
Hong Kong -based actor, best known on-screen for his roles asTriad gangsters in a number of films.Early life and career
As a child, Cheung idolized kung-fu legend
Bruce Lee but never seriously considered a career in acting.Starting out as a model, Cheung turned to acting when director
Yeung Fan cast him in his 1986 film "Lost Romance " and the first of his many roles portraying a villain followed in the acclaimed directorRingo Lam 's 1987 "City on Fire ".In 1996, Cheung appeared in the 3rd, 4th and 6th installments of the "
Young and Dangerous " series. Roles that heralded the beginning of a long working relationship with director/cinematographer Andrew Lau .Present day
Recently, Cheung has appeared in a number of Andrew Lau's films, most notably in the second installment of the internationally-acclaimed "
Infernal Affairs " trilogy, and in the 1998 "The Storm Riders ", in which Cheung broke free of his standard villainous self altogether and portrayed a Shaolin monk.Filmography
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Lost Romance " (1986)
*"City on Fire " (1987)
*"Prison on Fire " (1987)
*"The Big Heat " (1988)
*"School on Fire " (1988)
*"Tiger on the Beat 2 " (1988)
*"Aces Go Places 5 " (1989)
*"They Came to Rob Hong Kong " (1989)
*"Wild Search " (1989)
*"" (1989)
*"Chicken a La Queen " (1990)
*"Fight Back to School " (1991) - Brother Teddy Big
*"Hong Kong Godfather " (1991) - Officer Leung
*"In the Lap of God " (1991) - Roy
*"The Magnificent Scoundrels " (1991) - Brother Tai-te
*"My Flying Wife " (1991) - Mr. Smartie
*"Prison on Fire II " (1991) - Officer 'Scarface' Hung
*"Rose " (1992)
*"Shanghai Heroic Story " (1992)
*"What a Hero! " (1992)
*"Wicked City" (1992) - Shudo
*"Ghost Lantern " (1993)
*"Gambling Baron " (1994)
*"Organized Crime and Triad Bureau " (1994)
*"To Live and Die in Tsimshatsui " (1994)
*"" (1994)
*"The Armed Policewoman " (1995)
*"From the Same Family " (1995)
*"High Voltage " (1995)
*"Love, Guns & Glass " (1995)
*"Best of the Best " (1996)
*"King of Robbery " (1996)
*"Mongkok Story " (1996)
*"Once Upon a Time in Triad Society 2 " (1996)
*"Those Were the Days" (1996)
*"The Wild Couple " (1996)
*"Young and Dangerous 3 " (1996)
*"Young and Dangerous 4 " (1997)
*"Beast Cops " (1998)
*"Leopard Hunting " (1998)
*"Raging Angels " (1998)
*"The Storm Riders " (1998)
*"Big Spender " (1999)
*"The Mission" (1999)
*"Slow Fade " (1999)
*"" (2000)
*"Jiang Hu - The Triad Zone " (2000)
*"Bloody Cops " (2000)
*"Mafia.com " (2000)
*"Play With Strangers " (2000)
*"Super Car Criminals " (2000)
*"Unbeatables " (2000)
*"White Storm " (2000)
*"" (2001)
*"The Replacement Suspects " (2001)
*"The Avenging Fist " (2001)
*"Chinese Odyssey 2002 " (2002)
*"The Wesley's Mysterious File " (2002)
*"Deadline Crisis " (2002)
*"Infernal Affairs II " (2003)
*"Dragon the Master " (2003)
*"The Game of Killing " (2004)
*"Moonlight in Tokyo " (2005)
*"Exiled " (2006)
*"The Drummer" (2007)External links
*imdb name | id=0156559 | name=Roy Cheung
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