Kenneth Chan (actor)

Kenneth Chan
Chinese name	陳啟泰 (Traditional)
Chinese name	陈启泰 (Simplified)
Pinyin	Chén Qǐtài (Mandarin)
Jyutping	Chan4 Kai2taai3 (Cantonese)
Ancestry	Xinhui, Guangdong
Born	16 July 1964 (1964-07-16) (age 47) Hong Kong

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chan.

Kenneth Chan Kai-tai (born July 16, 1964) is a Hong Kong actor and television host for the Hong Kong-based Cable TV Hong Kong channel (previously working for TVB and ATV).

Chan is best known as the host of the Hong Kong version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Baak Maan Fu Yung. The show boosted his career, and he went on to create an album, Final Answer(最後答案), the name inspired by his role in the game show. He has also played three different characters in the three series of My Date with a Vampire, in which each character is related by cloning or reincarnation of the original in the first series. In March 2009, he released his second album The Past of Hong Kong (香港往事), a collection of old songs mainly from the 80s and 90s. Despite the name, it is an album targeted at the Guangzhou market.^[1] He is now the host of several ATV programs and was recently on CATV as the host of Cable Scientific Investigator.

Biography

Kenneth is an alumnus of St. Paul's Co-educational College, Fisher Park High School (where he sang in the school choir and performed in school productions such as 'Bye Bye Birdie') and Carleton University ^[2] in Ottawa, Canada. He has three older brothers.^[3] He married Cynthia(陳懿恆), a piano teacher, in the April of 1998 in St. Andrew's Church.^[4] Chan also does technical support in Sydney, Australia.

Filmography

TV series

Year	Title	Role	Network
2011	ICAC Investigators 2011
2010	The Men of Justice	Tong Ka-ming	ATV
2009	Happy Family 2009 開心大發現 2009	Brother Ken 大佬 Ken
	Cable Scientific Insepctor 神探csi	Presenter
2008	Today in Court 今日法庭	Presenter
2006	Central Affairs 2	Chai Chun-yu
	Hong Kong Special Cases	Ma Ho-yin
2004	My Date with a Vampire III	Yuenngan Pat-por	ATV
2001	Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?	Presenter	ATV
2002	Project Ji Xiang	Yam Gut-cheung	ATV
1999	My Date with a Vampire II 我和殭屍有個約會II	Yamamoto Katsuo 山本一夫
	Flaming Brothers 縱橫四海
	The Mad Phoenix 南海十三郎	Tong Tik-sang 唐滌生
	Divine Retribution 世纪之战	Au-yeung Wai-lun 欧阳玮伦
1998	My Date with a Vampire 我和殭屍有個約會	Yamamoto Katsuo 山本一夫	ATV
1997	Untraceable Evidence		TVB
	I Can't Accept Corruption		TVB
	The Disappearance		TVB
	Time Before Time		TVB
	Old Time Buddy		TVB
1996	Weapons of Power		TVB
1995	The Condor Heroes 95	Wan Chi-ping	TVB
1994	Fate of the Clairvoyant		TVB
1993	The Vampire Returns		TVB
1992	Angel's Call		TVB

Discography

Year	Title
2009	The Past of Hong Kong 香港往事
2004	Final Answer 最後答案

References

1. ^ Radio Interview^{[dead link]}
2. ^ Ken Chan biography
3. ^ Chinese wikipedia^{[dead link]}
4. ^ [1]^{[dead link]}

External links

• A Kenneth Chan fansite
• Official ATV profile

Awards and achievements
Power Academy Awards
Preceded by -	Outstanding Actor in Television 2001 for Project Ji Xiang	Succeeded by Moses Chan for Where the Legend Begins

Persondata
Name	Chan, Kenneth
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	16 July 1964
Place of birth	Hong Kong
Date of death
Place of death