Chui Tien-you

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

Chui Tien-you
Chinese name	徐天佑
Pinyin	Xú Tiānyòu (Mandarin)
Birth name	Chui Man-kin (徐文健)
Born	May 16, 1983 (1983-05-16) (age 28) Hong Kong
Other name(s)	Tien You
Occupation	Actor, singer, writer
Years active	2002 - present

Chui Man-kin (born May 16, 1983), better known as Chui Tien-you or Tien You, is a Hong Kong actor, singer and writer.

Early life

Chui was invited by Director Fruit Chan,^[1] for a beverage commercial shooting in 1999, when he was studying Form 4. He then signed a management contract and made his debut in Chan's Little Cheung as a guest actor.

Acting career

Following secondary school graduation in Hong Kong and a half-year further education in Japan, Chui officially made his first step to the entertainment industry. He began his onscreen acting career in 2000 in Lawrence Au's film Gimme, Gimme and Lau Miu-suet's Glass Tears. Glass Tears was one of the films that participated in 2001 Cannes Film Festival. In 2002, Chui started a boy band, Shine, with his partner Wong You-nam. They immediately swept through a combination of the major music awards and became the new generation of young actors of the year. They have released nine albums, shot a number of television commercials as the spokesman for many brands. Apart from singing, he also appeared in several films, such as Summer Breeze of Love by Joe Ma and The Mummy, Age 19 by Wilson Yip. In the same year he made a guest appearance in Colour of Sound, in which he felt blessed to be working with Tony Leung. He performed a supporting role as a director in Pang Ho-cheung's AV in 2005.

Chui began a transition that he decided to separate with his partner and focused more on his film career. He starred as the grown-up son and attracted the most attention in Patrick Tam's After This Our Exile. Portrayed as a magician is Chui's next appearance in Magic Boy by Adam Wong. In La Lingerie, directed by Chan Hing-hai and Janet Chun, Chui's sentimental role among all the girls brought him compliments by critics. He was awarded the 2008 Rising Star in the 13th Pusan International Film Festival Asia Pacific Actors Network in Korea. Chui then further expanded his "acting horizon" by not playing a positive role anymore, instead he collaborated with Malaysian director Ho Yuhang in At The End of Daybreak, which won the Asian Film Award in 2009 Locarno International Film Festival^[2] 2009 Hong Kong Asia Film Festival closing film. In this breakthrough role, Chui portrayed a teenager who is psychological imbalanced.

Other works

In addition to his acting career, Chui is involved in projects behind the scene for example script writing and column writing for various newspapers. In 2006 he was invited by the Hong Kong Performing Artistes Guild to shoot a short film titled Ten for "Phoenix TV 10th Anniversary". It was his first time directing a short film that brought him tremendous interest towards film-making.

Written works

• 2010 Marsonstudio series^[3]

References

• lovehkfilm entry

1. ^ http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/chan.html
2. ^ http://archive.pardo.ch/filmsearch.do?edizione=62&titoloFilm=at+the+end+of+daybreak&regista=&paese=&msezione=&msezione=&annoProduzione=&new=new&cerca=Searchand
3. ^ http://www.marsonstudio.com/?cat=1

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Name	Chui, Tien-You
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Date of birth	May 16, 1983
Place of birth	Hong Kong
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