Kevin Cheng

At 54 years old, Kevin Cheng has this physical status:

Kevin Cheng Ka-wing (born 15 August 1969) is a Hong Kong American actor and singer who is currently under the management of the Hong Kong television network TVB.

Cheng rose to fame in late 2004 after playing his first lead role in the TVB drama Hard Fate. He is best known for his role as "L.A.Law" in the 2011 TVB legal drama Ghetto Justice, which earned him a TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actor and Asian Television Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Early life

Cheng was born in San Francisco, California, but spent most of his childhood in Hong Kong. He attended Pun U Association Wah Yah Primary School, Wah Yan College, the Hong Kong International School, and Alhambra High School in the United States. During his school days, his mother sent him back to China, where he lived with his uncle for two years before returning to Hong Kong after his mother changed her mind about migrating to the United States. He completed his high school education in Canada. He pursued a civil engineering degree at the California State University in Los Angeles, but did not finish his studies because his father died and he wanted to move back to Hong Kong to be with his mother.

Personal life

On 12 August 2018, Cheng married his girlfriend of three years, actress and Miss Hong Kong 2013 Grace Chan, in Bali, Indonesia.

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Career

When Cheng was 16 years old, he participated in a singing competition run by the Hong Kong television network TVB but had to withdraw halfway because he was not ready to be a singer at that time. Later, after returning to Hong Kong in his early 20s, he decided to continue his search for a singing career. In 1993, he signed a deal with PolyGram Music and released his first album in the same year to mixed reviews. In 1994, he was regarded as a young talent and went on to win several Best New Artist awards. Later, Cheng's boss helped him begin his work in the Taiwanese entertainment industry. Cheng produced several Mandarin albums and appeared in some television dramas in Taiwan, but none of them were particularly popular.

Cheng was noticed by Mediacorp after portraying the villain "Jiang Yulang" in the 1999 Taiwanese television series The Legendary Siblings. He returned to Hong Kong and signed a TVB management deal in the following year, and began appearing in minor roles in some television series created by the network. For the first time in the TVB drama Hard Fate, he starred.

Cheng's popularity increased after he starred "Alan Shum" in the 2006 romance drama Under the Canopy of Love, for which he also received the TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actor this year. Liu Chia-chang's singing career also improved after he performed "Helpless" (). He also released a Cantonese compilations album and held his first mini concert in the same year. Niki Chow, Raymond Lam, and Miriam Yeung were among the guest singers who performed at his show.

Cheng was awarded accolades for his role in the 2007 crime drama "The Ultimate Crime Fighter," in which he played the criminal "Aaren Chong" and received raves for his role. His portrayal of the ex-convict "Sing Hei" in the 2008 thriller-suspense drama Last One Standing earned him further critical acclaim and widespread applause from viewers. In 2008, he was also one of the top five nominees for the TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actor, but the award went to veteran TVB actor Ha Yu.

Cheng took up the role of 8th Prince in Startling by Each Step (Bu Bu Jing Xin), which later brought his career to new heights and has since earned him fame in China.

Cheng received the "Best Actor" award at the 16th Asian Television Awards (ATA), as well as winning the Best Actor award at the 2011 TVB Anniversary Awards.

Cheng appeared in the film Blue Veins, in which he played Ying Wut-zoek, a supernatural hunter who had been given immortality for over 500 years ago, died in 2016.

Cheng appeared in Kid's Lives Matter in 2021, for which he is ranked among the top 5 performers at the 2021 TVB Anniversary Awards.

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