Nicholas Tse

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Nicholas Tse Ting-fung (Chinese: ; born 29 August 1980) is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, guitarist, songwriter, and chef.

In 2014, a multi talented celebrity, he became a TV chef and food critic. Tse first began performing as a guitarist in 1996 and rose to fame in the entertainment industry.

He learned martial arts from Philip Ng, Andy Ong, and Sammo Hung, as well as Jackie Chan's stunt team leader Chung Chi Li for film and television, which he continues to watch.

Tse made his film debut in 1998 with the crime film Young and Dangerous: The Prequel, for which he received the Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Performer for his role.

Tse founded Post Production Office Limited, a Hong Kong-based special effects firm that provides facilities for movies, video games, and advertisements.

In 2011, the company earned the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor for his role in the film The Stool Pigeon.

Early life

Tse was born in Hong Kong on August 29, 1980, to famous Hong Kong actor Patrick Tse () and actress Deborah Lee (). Jennifer Tse, his younger sister, is the head of a family. At eight years old, Tse moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He attended St. George's School in Vancouver but then migrated with his family to Hong Kong. Nicholas continued to attend Hong Kong International School for a year before dropping out due to low grades in grade 10. He lived in Phoenix, Arizona, for a year, but was fired for his academic achievements. Before returning to Hong Kong, he studied music in Japan. After giving up Canadian citizenship as part of the Chinese government crackdown on the entertainment industry, he now has Hong Kong citizenship.

Personal life

In September 2021, Tse began to renouncing his Canadian citizenship. Since emigring to Canada in his youth, he had dual Hong Kong-Canadian citizenship.

In the late 1990s, Tse began a friendship with musician Faye Wong, 11 years his senior, who started a new one. In 2002, they broke up again.

In an interview with Hong Kong commercial radio station 881/903, Tse revealed that he was dating actress Cecilia Cheung on July 31, 2006. Tse revealed that he and Cecilia Cheung married in a private wedding ceremony in Pamalican, Philippines, on September 29, 2006. Lucas, born on August 2, 2007, and Quintus, born on May 12, 2010. Tse reportedly filed for divorce from Cheung on June 14th, 2011.

Tse renewed his relationship with Faye Wong, who had divorced her second husband in 2013. Tse and Faye Wong live together as of 2020.

Tse crashed his Ferrari 360 Modena in Hong Kong Central in the early morning on March 23, 2002. Initially, it was believed that his driver was responsible for the accident, but the ICAC's subsequent inquiry revealed that the whole story was fake, involving three other men and a police officer. Officer Lau Chi-Wai was sentenced to six months in jail. Tse spent two weeks in jail and was sentenced to 240 hours of community service for unlawful conduct. Given that Tse was a young convict at the time (21 years and 7 months), the 240 hours portion of his sentence was the maximum penalty for this offence. Since the incident caused him to lose his fame, he had to do so. Since the incident, Tse's salary has decreased by 40%. The car was originally a gift from EEG, although Tse himself was responsible for 56% of the sales.

With "paparazzi," Tse has had his fair share of brush-ups. Tse was beaten outside a restaurant in Taiwan by a photographer for Sudden Weekly magazine, bruising his nose and elbow. Despite the fact that Tse denied the assault charge, there was a deal in July 2002.

Tse had another accident in 2003, when he crashed his Toyota Camry into a Wan Chai train station. He was barred from driving for six months and fined HK$4000 for reckless driving. He was fined HK$7000 and had his licence suspended for a year because he had two separate charges for speeding prior to this incident.

He had a second accident in November 2005 when he collided with a Public Security Bureau Bus in an Audi RS4 in Lantau. He was barred from driving for another six months and fined HK$4,000 for reckless driving. Tse released the album Reborn after this police charge.

Cecilia Cheung, Tse's wife, was caught up in the Edison Chen photo controversy in February 2008, when intimate photos of her mother were widely distributed on the internet.

Tse was named in the first "Mates of Michelin" award for Michelin-star-worthy non-professional chefs and restaurateurs on October 28, 2016. He created the dessert course for A Night Among the Stars, a seven course gala dinner with Michelin-star chefs Alain Ducasse, Kwong Wai-keung, Tam Kwok-fung, Fabrice Vulin, Hidemichi Seki, and Noah Sandoval on November 30, 2017.

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Career

In 1995, at age 14, Tse attended a series of concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum from Faye Wong, who was entering the prime of her career at age 24. He became, in his own words, obsessed with the pop star; the two would become romantic partners decades later. In 1996, Tse was singing at a party for a family friend when he was discovered by Albert Yeung, the head of Emperor Entertainment Group. In 1997, Tse signed a record deal with EEG under the Fitto label and released his first album, My Attitude. The album was ranked 3rd on the top selling CD chart of IFPI. In the same year of his debut, he won the most popular new artist award.

Tse achieved mainstream success in 1998 with songs like "早知" (Knew It Would Be Like That) and "如果只得一星期" (If There's Only One Week) and became a prominent heartthrob in the entertainment industry. He received a musical award during the 1999 Jade Solid Gold Top 10 Awards with his popular song "非走不可" (No Choice But To Leave), recorded on 27 September 1993.

In 2000, Tse released the album with the main hit single "活著 VIVA", which was regarded as his most popular song ever, and furthered his career significantly. After the release of this song, he became widely regarded as an A-list singer. In 2001, he released the album "玉蝴蝶" (Jade Butterfly), which included two hit songs, "玉蝴蝶" and "潛龍勿用".

In 2002, Tse received the World's Best Chinese Artist award at the 2002 World Music Award for the success of his Jade Butterfly album.

Tse's most notable films have included Young and Dangerous: The Prequel (1998), Gen-X Cops (1999), Time and Tide (2000), and Invisible Target (2007). He also collaborated with Jackie Chan in New Police Story (2004). Tse has also acted in romance films including Tiramisu (2002) and Jade Goddess of Mercy (2003). Late in his career, he ventured into comedic roles in Enter the Phoenix (2004), A Chinese Tall Story (2005), and McDull, the Alumni (2006). In the Hong Kong translated version of A Bug's Life (蟲蟲特工隊), Tse did the voice dubbing for the character Flik. He also lent his voice to the Chinese animation film Lotus Lantern (1999). Tse's performance in Bodyguards and Assassins (2009), earned him an Asian Film Award at the 4th Asian Film Awards for Best Supporting Actor, and in 2011, Tse received a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor at the 30th Hong Kong Film Awards for The Stool Pigeon (2010), beating fellow actors Chow Yun-fat, Jacky Cheung, Tony Leung Ka-fai, and Nick Cheung. Tse had a love for martial arts at a young age, but he formally learned martial arts for the screen from stunt leader Jackie Chan and Chung Chi Li for films such as, Gen-X-Cops and Invisible Target. He worked with Donnie Yen for martial arts film, Dragon Tiger Gate. He still practices martial arts for the screen and exercise. He's also a Wing Chun practitioner, being trained by fellow co-star and friend Philip Ng alongside co-star and friend Andy On.

Tse has starred in two TVB Hong Kong local dramas, Aiming High (撻出愛火花) and The Monkey King: Quest for the Sutra (齊天大聖孫悟空). He also participated in a documentary produced by Television Broadcasts Limited called On the Road II (向世界出發II), made in Cambodia in 2007. The rest of his drama series were filmed and produced by companies in Mainland China. Most of Tse's dramas are wuxia series, a genre of fantasy Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China.

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