Tay Ping Hui
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Tay Ping Hui | |||||||
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| Nationality | Singaporean | ||||||
| Education | Catholic High School Catholic Junior College | ||||||
| Alma mater | National University of Singapore | ||||||
| Occupation(s) | Actor, film director | ||||||
| Years active | 1998-present | ||||||
| Awards | Star Awards 1999 : Star Awards for Best Supporting Actor Star Awards 2012 : Star Awards for Best Actor & All-Time Favourite Artiste Star Awards 2013 : Star Awards for Best Supporting Actor | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 鄭斌輝 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 郑斌辉 | ||||||
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Tay Ping Hui is a Singaporean actor and director. In 2014, Tay made his directorial debut with the basketball film Meeting the Giant.
Early life
Tay attended Catholic High School (Primary and Secondary) and Catholic Junior College.[1] He was a Student Councillor in junior college and also a reservist National Service commissioned officer in the Singapore Armed Forces. He was conferred a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in Economics and Political Science from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the National University of Singapore.[2]
In 2010, Tay got married to a university lecturer.[3]
Career
After graduated from university, Tay was the General Manager of an American food and beverage franchise and was planning to pursue a MBA at Harvard University before he was scouted to join TCS (later MediaCorp). Barely a year after his debut in On the Edge - Mr Personality, Tay won the "Best Supporting Actor" award at the 1999 Star Awards for his portrayal of a gang leader in Stepping Out. His breakthrough is As You Like It (随心所遇) in 2000. After that, he became directors' leading man choice, acting in numerous television dramas. Tay also acted in Hong Kong film productions such as Summer Holiday directed by Jingle Ma, starring with Hong Kong actress Sammi Cheng, and "Infernal Affairs II" alongside Anthony Wong and Francis Ng.
Proficiently bilingual in both English and Mandarin, Tay also starred in MediaCorp's English-language channel, Channel 5 dramas like A War Diary- a television drama set in Japanese-occupied Singapore during World War II, playing a resistance fighter and garnering rave reviews. Other prominent works included "Brothers 4" and "Keong Saik Street", where he was the top billing actor, and most recently, in the Channel 5 long-running drama Tanglin.
Tay also performed in stage play Butterflies are Free, handpicked by Hong Kong film director Clifton Ko. And most recently, mandarin stage musical Don't Forget to Say Good Bye (记得说再见).
Tay has been nominated for the Best Actor in the Star Awards 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, playing coveted roles and excelling in major productions by MediaCorp. He has also been consistently been voted as one of the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes in the Star Awards 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011, receiving the All-Time Favourite Artiste Award at Star Awards 2012. Tay has been voted Media's Top 5 Popular ward and was also in Lianhe Zaobao's " Top 50 Most Popular Asian Idol" for five consecutive years.
Tay starred as Huang Feihu in the China -produced supernatural fantasy television series The Legend and the Hero alongside China Megastar Fan Bin Bin, Liu De Kai and Taiwanese Star Ma Jing Tao. Since then, Tay has become a recognised face in China.
Tay played "manly" characters such as in C.I.D., Honour and Passion and C.L.I.F. but it was his role as a crude Ah beng-turned-chef in Bountiful Blessings that earned him his first Best Actor Award in Star Awards 2012. And for the Star Awards 2013, he won the Best Supporting Actor despite only being in 7 episodes of the TV series Unriddle 2.
In 2012, he received the All-Time Favourite Artiste award for obtaining Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes.
In 2018, Tay left Mediacorp. Cause in recent years, Tay has shifted his focus to acting in China and was most recently there to film a Chinese drama where he plays a spy. But he won't be based in China. "I will be in China as and when I have projects there", he says. "Singapore is my home, I love my country".
Tay has signed on with Perfect World Pictures (Singapore) in 2018 and will be involved in a reboot of The Awakening in a starring role.[4]
Other
Tay has also performed live numerous times on stage for events such as National Day and New Year's Day countdown and has performed alongside Taiwanese stars Wu Bai and Harlem Yu. He has also performed the theme songs of several MediaCorp series such as The Unbeatables III and Double Happiness I. His recording of Follow Me (跟着我一起) from Honour and Passion was named the Best Drama Theme Song at the Star Awards 2007.
In 2013, Tay completed his feature film directorial debut with a Singapore/ China co-production Meet the Giants (再见巨人), first of its kind in such collaboration in the local movie industry. The movie was screened in Singapore and China.
Filmography
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref |
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| 1999 | Are You My Brother? (错体双宝) | [citation needed] | ||
| Stepping Out | Liu Mei | [citation needed] | ||
| 2000 | My Home Affairs (家事) | Hong Guoren | [citation needed] | |
| As You Like It (随心所遇) | Pierre | [citation needed] | ||
| The Stratagem(世纪攻略) | Zhuo Lingfeng | [citation needed] | ||
| 2001 | A War Diary | Lim Teck-Meng | [citation needed] | |
| The Reunion | Liu Yazhou | [citation needed] | ||
| The Hotel | [citation needed] | |||
| 2002 | Fantasy (星梦情真) | Song Ziqian | [citation needed] | |
| The Unbeatables III | Luo Shenfeng | [citation needed] | ||
| Health Matters (一切由慎开始) | Jeffrey | [citation needed] | ||
| 2003 | Love is Beautiful (美丽家庭) | Zheng Liheng | [citation needed] | |
| A Child's Hope | Huang Junsheng | [citation needed] | ||
| Always on my Mind (无炎的爱) | Tiger Li Xiaohu | [citation needed] | ||
| Brothers 4 | [citation needed] | |||
| 2004 | Spice Siblings | Wen He | [citation needed] | |
| The Ties that Bind (家财万贯) | Ma Yucai | [citation needed] | ||
| My Mighty In-Laws (野蛮亲家) | Simon | [citation needed] | ||
| Devil Blues (叛逆战队) | Di Jun | [citation needed] | ||
| 2005 | A Life of Hope | Su Dongping (苏东凭) | [citation needed] | |
| Destiny (梦在手里) | Shen Jingwen | [citation needed] | ||
| 2006 | C.I.D. | Chen Long (Sean) (陈龙) |
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| 2007 | Mars vs Venus | Liu Yifan (Steven) (刘义范) |
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| Honour and Passion | Bao Wenjing (宝纹精) |
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| The Golden Path | Huang Kaijie (黄凯杰) |
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| 2008 | The Truth | Lu Zhiwei (吕之伟) |
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| La Femme | Huang Quanhe (黄权赫) | [citation needed] | ||
| Crime Busters x 2 | Lü Daxiong (吕大熊) |
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| 2009 | The Dream Catchers | Wang Zhiwei (王志伟) |
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| The Ultimatum | Sunjie |
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| Baby Bonus | Li Jiacheng (李佳城) |
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| 2010 | New Beginnings | Li Zihao (李子豪) |
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| Unriddle | Zhang Yuze (张于泽) |
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| The Family Court | Shen Xiping (沈细评) |
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| 2011 | C.L.I.F. | Zhong Yida (钟义达) |
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| Bountiful Blessings | Xie Donghai (谢东嗨) |
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| 2012 | Rescue 995 | Huang Yixun (黄易迅) |
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| Unriddle 2 | Zhang Yuze (张于泽) |
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| 2013 | Break Free | Li Tianming (李添名) |
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| 96°C Café | Lao Jingfeng (唠景峰) |
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| Love at Risk | Wu Qishan (伍戚山) |
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| 2014 | World at Your Feet | Hong Canghai (洪沧海) |
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| 2015 | Love? (限量爱情) | Tay |
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| Mind Game | Liang Wenjie (梁文杰) |
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| Crescendo | Jiang Chufan (江楚帆) |
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| 2016 | Soul Reaper (勾魂使者) | Chen Haotian (陈浩沺) |
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| Hero | Rice King (饭王) |
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| 2017 | The Lead | Himself |
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| The Legend of the Condor Heroes | Genghis Khan | [citation needed] | ||
| 2018 | Babies On Board | Sun Zhihui (孙智辉) |
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| 2019 | Mind's Eye (心眼) |
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Discography
Drama Soundtracks
| Year | Song title | Drama | Other artists | Ref |
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| 2002 | 灰色地带 | 双天至尊III | [citation needed] | |
| 2004 | 有家是福} | 喜临门 | Jeff Wang, Huang Shi Yu (黄仕昱) | [citation needed] |
| 2007 | 跟着我一起 | 宝家卫国 | [citation needed] | |
| 2017 | 初衷 | 第一主角 | [citation needed] | |
| 2018 | 爱以外的意外 | 新生 | Lin Si Tong (林思彤) | [citation needed] |
Awards and nominations
References
- ^ 我的老师最难忘 (in Chinese). Lianhe Zaobao. September 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Call me a Toa Payoh boy". AsiaOne. 29 January 2009.
- ^ Chin, Felicia (28 June 2010). "Tay Ping Hui Wife: Singapore Actor Tay Ping Hui Is Married | theAsianparent". sg.theasianparent.com.
- ^ "Channel 8 drama The Awakening to get China reboot". The Straits Times. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
External links
- Tay Ping Hui's profile on xinmsn
- 20th-century Singaporean male actors
- 21st-century Singaporean male actors
- Singaporean male television actors
- Singaporean male film actors
- Singaporean film directors
- Living people
- Singaporean people of Hokkien descent
- National University of Singapore alumni
- Catholic Junior College alumni
- Catholic High School, Singapore alumni