Derek Tsang

In this Chinese name, the family name is Tsang.

Derek Tsang
曾國祥
Tsang at the 2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival
Born	(1979-11-08) 8 November 1979 British Hong Kong
Occupation(s)	Actor, film director
Spouse	Venus Wong ​ (m. 2019)​
Parents	Eric Tsang (father) Rebecca Chu (mother)
Family	Bowie Tsang (half-sister) Tsang Wing Yee (half-sister) Mark Tsang (brother)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	曾國祥
Simplified Chinese	曾国祥
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Céng Guó Xiáng

Derek Tsang Kwok-cheung (曾國祥; born 8 November 1979) is a Hong Kong film director and actor. He is the son of Eric Tsang. Films he directed include Lover's Discourse (2010) and Soul Mate (2016), and he starred in The Thieves in 2012. He is best known for directing the film Better Days (2019), which was the Hong Kong submission for the Academy Awards and achieved a Best International Feature Film nomination, becoming the first Hong Kong submission directed by a Hong Kong native to do so.

Life and career

Derek Tsang was born to actor Eric Tsang and his second wife Rebecca Chu in Hong Kong on 8 November 1979. While he is still young his mother took him and his younger brother Mark Tsang to Toronto, Canada without his father, who chose to stay behind. Derek obtained his undergraduate degree in Sociology at the University of Toronto Scarborough in 2001.

Upon his return to Hong Kong, Derek made his debut for Men Suddenly in Black (2003), where he played a younger version of his father's character, along with Jaycee Chan and Nicholas Tse.

Personal life

Tsang married actress Venus Wong at Niki Hills, Hokkaido, Japan, in 2019.

Filmography

• The Strangled Truth (2019)
• Missbehavior (2019)
• Better Days (2019)
• The Brink (2017)
• Love Off the Cuff (2017)
• S Storm (2016)
• Soul Mate (2016)
• Robbery (2016)
• From Vegas to Macau III (2016)
• From Vegas to Macau II (2015)
• Zombie Fight Club (2014)
• Z Storm (2014)
• Naked Ambition 2 (2014)
• Golden Chicken 3 (2014)
• Streets of Macao (2014)
• SDU: Sex Duties Unit (2013)
• My Sassy Hubby (2012)
• Triad (2012)
• Love in the Buff (2012)
• The Thieves (2012)
• Girl$ (2010)
• Once a Gangster (2010)
• Dream Home (2010)
• Ex (2010) - Sol
• Claustrophobia (2008) - John
• Ocean Flame (2008)
• Scare 2 Die (2008)
• Run Papa Run (2008) - Chicken
• Tactical Unit: No Way Out (2008)
• Simply Actors (2007) - Window cleaner vendor
• Single Blog (2007) - Woody
• Dragon Boys' (2007) - Fox Boy (Canadian TV Miniseries)
• My Name Is Fame (2006)
• On the Edge (2006) - Mini B
• Midnight Running (2006) - Peter
• The Third Eye (2006) - Gum
• Without Words (2006) - Michael
• Isabella (2006) - Fai
• Cocktail (2006) - Kuen
• A.V. (2005) - Band-Aid
• It Had to Be You! (2005)
• The Eye 2 (2004) - Joey's co-worker
• The Park (2003) (as Derek Tsang) - Dan
• Men Suddenly in Black (2003) - Young Tin

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
2010	47th Golden Horse Awards	Best New Director	Lover's Discourse	Nominated
2016	53rd Golden Horse Awards	Best Director	Soul Mate	Nominated
2017	11th Asian Film Awards	Best Director		Nominated
	36th Hong Kong Film Awards	Best Director		Nominated
		Best New Director		Nominated
	8th China Film Director's Guild Awards	Best Hong Kong / Taiwan Director		Won
	31st Golden Rooster Awards	Best Directorial Debut		Nominated
2020	39th Hong Kong Film Awards	Best Director	Better Days	Won
	26th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award	Best Director		style="background: #9EFF9E; color: #000; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center; " class="yes table-yes2 notheme"|Won
	11th China Film Director's Guild Awards	Best Hong Kong / Taiwan Director		Won
2021	93rd Academy Awards	Academy Award for Best International Feature Film		Nominated

External links

• Derek Tsang at IMDb
• Derek Tsang at hkmdb.com