Nicholas Tse

Nicholas Tse is one of those rare Hong Kong entertainers who genuinely excelled at everything he touched — and I mean that without the usual celebrity hyperbole. He broke out as a teen pop idol in the mid-90s, picked up a World Music Award, then quietly pivoted into serious film work and earned an Asian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. His action movie resume is legitimately impressive: New Police Story alongside Jackie Chan, Bodyguards and Assassins, The Viral Factor, and Raging Fire in 2021 — that last one especially showed he had real staying power as an adult performer. But the twist nobody saw coming? The man also became a legit TV chef, hosting cooking shows and building a food entrepreneur brand under the handle "Chef Nic." Son of Hong Kong cinema legend Patrick Tse, Nicholas somehow stepped out of that enormous shadow and carved three distinct careers. Respect.

Name (English)

Nicholas Tse

Name (Japanese)

ニコラス・ツェー

Reading

にこらす・つぇー

Born

August 29, 1980 (age 45)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Monkey

Origin

British Hong Kong, United Kingdom

Occupation

television actor / film actor / singer / entrepreneur / actor

Awards & achievements

• World Music Awards
• Asian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
• QQ Music Awards

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/chefnicookies/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%84%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC

Tags

• television actor
• film actor
• singer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.