Gregory Charles Rivers

Infobox Chinese-language singer and actor
name = Gregory Charles Rivers
tradchinesename = 河國榮
simpchinesename = 河国荣
birthdate = 1965
birthplace = Australia
yearsactive = 1988 - present

Gregory Charles Rivers (Chinese: 河國榮, Cantonese: Ho Kwok Wing, pinyin: He Guorong), (born 1965) is a Hong Kong actor of Australian heritage.

Growing up in Katoomba, he moved to Hong Kong before finishing his medicine degree at the University of New South Wales. Speaking fluent Cantonese, he is currently a TVB actor. Practically every major character who is a foreigner (no matter whether a French or English man) in TVB dramas is played by him. He has also appeared on stage, as protagonist, in 2005. The Aussies often say that in Hong Kong, he's found America.

His Chinese name is made up of the Chinese equivalent of his surname Rivers (河) and the name of his idol Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing (張國榮).

He is an active member of the Mac circle in Hong Kong, and a popular .

He also a frequent Youtube poster, having his own prolific number of video clips of himself and his many colleagues within the Hong Kong media industryFact|date=April 2008

In a TV interview aired on the 19th of March 2007 on the Hong Kong Terrestrial channel TVB, Gregory River mentioned his reason for learning Cantonese was his association with Hong Kong Cantonese speaking friends during his time at university at the age of 20years old. It was this close friendship which led him to become more interested in the learning the language when he first heard the songs sung by Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing inspiring him to learn the words so he could sing it. At the age of 21years old, he dropped out of university of New South Wales where he was studying a medical degree, which he was on his 2nd year from his final to travel to Hong Kong, citing that he dropped the degree because he had lost interest in it and not because he had any difficulty.Fact|date=April 2008

Trivia

Speaking in one of his YouTube videos, Rivers mentioned during his time at New South Wales University, he worked as a part-time cleaner in the Round House and Square House.Fact|date=April 2008

As mentioned on his blog, he has left TVB as of January 2008.

He is now the English tutor of actor Chow Yun Fat in the movie 'Dragonball'

References

External links

* [http://www.hokwokwing.hk/ His personal website]