Roy Cheung

Roy Cheung is a Hong Kong actor I'd put squarely in the "character specialist" category, and I mean that as a compliment. He built his reputation playing Triad gangsters across a stretch of films, which is the kind of typecasting that can either trap an actor or make him indispensable. With Cheung it clearly became the latter; that menacing screen presence is exactly what those crime dramas needed. Born in 1963, he's part of the generation that defined Hong Kong cinema's most exportable era. I find performers like him underrated abroad, because the genre travels but the faces inside it rarely get the individual credit they earn.

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Name (English)

Roy Cheung

Name (Japanese)

ロイ・チョン

Reading

ろい・ちょん

Born

July 20, 1963 (age 63)

Origin

Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

Occupation

actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rabbit

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Cheung
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q701585

Tags

• actor

Last updated

September 23, 2026

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