Ray Lui
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| Ray Lui | |
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| Chinese name | 呂良偉 (Traditional) |
| Chinese name | 吕良伟 (Simplified) |
| Pinyin | Lǚ Liángwěi (Mandarin) |
| Jyutping | Leoi5 Loeng4 Wai5 (Cantonese) |
| Origin | Hong Kong |
| Born | 22 December 1956 Vietnam |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1979 - present |
| Spouse(s) | Kathy Chow (1988) Cally Kwong (1996) Yang Xiaojuan (2001 - present) |
| Children | Lui Sin-yeung (呂善揚) |
Ray Lui Leung-wai (born 22 December 1956) is a Vietnam-born Hong Kong film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Ting Lik in the 1980 TVB period drama series The Bund. Lui is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, English, Spanish and Thai.
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[edit] Career
Lui was born in a Hoa[1] family in Vietnam in 1956. His father, a businessman, moved from China to Vietnam in the 1940s. In 1967, during the Vietnam War, Lui moved to Hong Kong with his family and was encouraged by his father to join an actors' training class.[2] He enrolled in the TVB Artists Training Class in the 1970s and began acting as extras or characters with small roles in TV series. In 1980, Lui rose to fame after his performance as Ting Lik in The Bund, co-starring with Chow Yun-fat and Angie Chiu. He continued to play the role of Ting Lik in the sequel of The Bund. Since then, Lui has been playing the leading roles of various TVB series in the 1980s. Lui retired from TVB in 1989 and went to work on films and mainland Chinese TV series. He returned to TVB in 2009, starring as Marcus Cheuk in Born Rich.
[edit] Personal life
Lui has an older brother, an older sister and two younger brothers. He married thrice and two of his marriages were highly publicized in the media. In 1985, he started a relationship with actress Kathy Chow and married her on 9 November 1988 in the United States. They divorced five months later. In 1996, Lui married Cally Kwong but they divorced six months later, and it was revealed that their marriage had not been officially registered. In January 2001, Lui married Yang Xiaojuan from Guizhou and had a son with her.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Film
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[edit] Television
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[edit] References
- ^ Ethnic Chinese in Vietnam
- ^ http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=112
[edit] External links
- The Bund
- Ray Lui at the Internet Movie Database
- Ray Lui at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
