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Chia-Hui Liu was born on 22 August 1951 in Guangdong, China. He is an actor and director, known for Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978) and Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003). He was previously married to Ma Fei-feng.

Zheyuan Chen was born on 29 October 1996 in Guangdong, China. He is an actor, known for Handsome Siblings (2020), Mr. Bad (2022) and Dark Night and Dawn (2024).

Xu Kai is a Chinese actor and model. In 2013, he won the still model group championship at the national finals of the China International Model Competition held in Guangzhou, and he debuted as a model. In 2016, he signed a contract with Huanyu Film, an entertainment company owned by Yu Zheng, and entered the entertainment industry. He was cast in his first television series Zhao Ge, where he plays Yang Jian.

In 2018, Xu starred in the historical romance drama Untouchable Lovers, followed by the palace drama Story of Yanxi Palace. He gained mainstream recognition with his role as Fucha Fuheng in Story of Yanxi Palace, which was a huge hit in China and across Asia.

In 2019, Xu made his big-screen debut in the romance film "Autumn Fairy Tale". The same year, Xu played his first lead role in Xianxia series, "The Legends". The same year, he starred in the youth military series "Arsenal Military Academy", winning the Best Actor award at the the 6th Hengdian Film and TV Festival of China "Wen Rong Award" for his role. He also earned the Hengdian Film and Television Honors and was appointed as the spokesperson of Hengdian. He has also won several awards including the Most Popular TV Actor of the Year Award from 2019 iQiyi Scream Night, StarHub Night of Stars 2019 Best Actor award.

In 2020, Xu starred in the historical fantasy drama Dance of the Sky Empire.

In 2021, Xu leads in the Chinese e-sport romance comedy television series Falling Into Your Smile as Lu Si Cheng or Chessman. Added to that is his another hit drama as Bai Jue in Ancient Love Poetry.

Forbes China listed Xu under their 30 Under 30 Asia 2019 list which consisted of 30 influential people under 30 years old who have had a substantial effect in their fields.

Born in China, Kim Chan fled China in 1928 with his father Lem and two older sisters. Settling first in Rhode Island, then in New York, Kim left his family after his father caught him lying about an afternoon spent at the cinema. Faced with an ultimatum, Kim left for years as a day laborer, occasionally homeless, frequently sleeping on vermin-infested ironing boards.

Yet when he was not laboring in laundries and restaurants, Kim Chan sought work as an actor in film, television, and the theater. Many roles were small, often reflecting racial stereotypes - casting as a Japanese soldier was common in the 1940s. Chan's big break came only in 1983 with his comedic turn as Jonno, the butler to the late night talk show host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis) in Martin Scorsese's _The King of Comedy (1983)_. Since then he has appeared in numerous roles, seemingly never wanting for work.

Of the ten films that Hsiao-Hsien Hou directed between 1980 and 1989, seven received best film or best director awards from prestigious international films festivals in Venice, Berlin, Hawaii, and the Festival of the Three Continents in Nantes. In a 1988 worldwide critics' poll, Hou was championed as "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of cinema."

Hou's birthplace, a county in Kuangtung Province, had been well-known as an intellectual center in China. In 1948, his family moved to Taiwan and, like all children raised there, he went through an extremely demanding educational system. In 1969, he studied film at the National Taiwan Arts Academy. After graduation in 1972, he worked briefly as a salesman. Later he began his film career as a scriptwriter and assistant director.

Hou's films are often concerned with his experiences of growing up in rural Taiwan in the 1950s and 1960s. The 1950s marked a time in which refugee families from the mainland were struggling painfully for survival, while the 1960s saw the beginning of the most significant social change in modern Taiwan. The economic boom of that period meant the beginning of Western-style industrialization and urbanization. The normal frustrations of growing up were aggravated by these complicated changes, and Hou's films are intimate expressions of those experiences.

His emotionally charged work is replete with highly nostalgic images and beautiful compositions; their power lies in his total identification with the past and the fate of families who suffered through difficult times. His stories, often written in collaboration with scriptwriters T'ien-wen Chu and Nien-Jen Wu, depict the complex intertwining of the different strands that shape the lives of individuals. In a poetic yet relaxed style, they reflect a deep sympathy and a profound humanism.

Kris Wu (Chinese name: Wu Yifan) is a Chinese-Canadian actor, singer, and songwriter, active in China. He has starred in many Chinese box office hits, such as Somewhere Only We Know (2015), Mr. Six (2015), The Mermaid (2016), and Sweet Sixteen (2016), and Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back (2017), as well as English-language films like xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017) and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017).

Kris was born and raised in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. He was born Li Jiahéng, and later changed his legal Chinese name to Wu Yifan, for personal reasons.

At the age of ten, he immigrated to Vancouver, Canada with his mother. He returned to China at the age of fifteen, and attended Guangzhou No. 7 Middle School for a short period. He was a "sports student' and was named captain of the school's basketball team. His team won 1st place in the China Junior NBA tournament in the South China Region that year. After that win, he was offered an NCAA scholarship that he had to turn down to follow his mother back to Vancouver, where he attended Point Grey Secondary School and Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School. He was also the captain of the basketball team for both schools.

At the age of 17, Kris auditioned for S.M. Entertainment's Canadian Global Auditions, which were held in Vancouver on October 14th, 2007. After passing the auditions, he moved to South Korea in January 2008 and became an S.M trainee.

He started his career as a member of Chinese-South Korean boy band EXO and the leader of its sub-unit Exo-M. On May 15, 2014, Kris filed a lawsuit against S.M. Entertainment to terminate his contract, stating violation of human rights as the main reason. On October 10, EXO-M's Han Lu also filed a lawsuit against S.M. Entertainment to nullify his contract. On July 30, 2015, S.M Entertainment Filed a lawsuit against Kris and the Chinese companies working with him at the Beijing court, stating that "these activities have infringed the rights of the EXO members and SM, and have caused great financial harm to us and our partners. This is not only an abuse of the system, but also an unethical move that has betrayed the trust of this company and the other members." The following day, Kris released a statement defending himself stating that S.M. Entertainment had made him leave the group for several months and that S.M. Entertainment's way of mistreating and neglecting their artists resulted in serious health issues: he had to take medication to be able to work from July 2013 to January 2014, when he was diagnosed with Myocarditis, which S.M. Entertainment did nothing about. He then lost trust in the company which pushed him to choose to request for contract termination. Lawsuit is still going and the court hasn't pronounced the verdict for both Kris' and Luhan's cases. Since May of 2014 he is active in China, He is very successful in different fields, broke records, and as of 2016, he has filmed in 9 movies in just 2 years.

Ti Lung was born on 19 August 1946 in Guangdong Province, China. He is an actor and director, known for A Better Tomorrow (1986), Drunken Master II (1994) and The Warrior's Way (2010). He has been married to Min-Ming Tao since 22 May 1975. They have one child.

Cheng Xiao, born in Shenzhen, China, is a member of the Chinese-South Korean girl group, WJSN. She signed under Yuehua and Starship Entertainment. Cheng studied tradition Chinese Dance for 10 years before moving to Korea and training to become an idol. She attended Shenzhen Art School but transferred to School of Performing Arts in Seoul, Korea.

Cheng trained as an idol in Korea for 10 years. In February 2016, she debuted in the thirteen-member girl group, WJSN, otherwise known as Cosmic Girls, in their wonder unit. In the same year, Cheng also was a part of Inkigayo's Music Crush project in Sunny Girls, with the song 'Taxi'.

In 2018, Cheng Xiao went back to China to promote WJSN and become the dance mentor on the music survival show, Idol Producer. She debuted as an actress in the 2020 'Legend of Awakening' and 'Detective Chinatown'.

Cheng released OSTs for dramas and promotional music videos. In January 2020, she officially debuted as a solo artist with the single 'Focus X'. Cheng is yet to return to WJSN and the group continues to promote without any of its Chinese members.

Kent Cheng was born on 22 May 1951 in Shantou, Guangdong, China. He is an actor and director, known for Why Me? (1985), Ip Man 3 (2015) and To Be Number One (1991). He has been married to Yin-Ming Lam since 1991. They have two children.

Elane Zhong was born on 18 March 1993 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. She is an actress, known for Youth (2017), Escape from the 21st Century (2024) and Her Story (2024).

When Eddy Ko Hung agreed to talk to a German journalist five years ago, he thought it would be a one-off meeting. Although he remains one of Hong Kong's most bankable and well-regarded actors, his career - which began in 1967 at the Shaw Brothers studio - had already slowed and he was being cast in more secondary roles.

He starred in a string of wuxia epics in the 1970s and became a household name after playing an iconic Chinese literary hero Lam Chung in the prime-time TVB series The Unyielding Master Lim in 1986.

So rather than settling into obscurity after migrating to Vancouver, in Canada, with his family, Ko has found a new stage for himself in productions made outside Hong Kong.

Having signed to a Canadian agent, Ko's international career began in 1998 with a role as an illegal immigrant in Lethal Weapon 4 (which also stars Jet Li). In addition to his frequent forays into Hong Kong cinema, his recent work has ranged from art-house fare such as Night Corridor to mainstream films and soap operas. His performance as folk hero Huo Yuanjia in an ATV series in 1995 won him a large following on the mainland, he has also starred in an Italian film ('of debatable quality,' murmurs Ko) and played a fictional Chinese head of state in a Canadian television series.

His latest non-Chinese-language role is in French conspiracy thriller Largo Winch, in which he plays a tattooist who helps the film's titular hero (Tomer Sisley).

When he first set foot in the studio, he could already speak English and Japanese, which has since helped him secure roles in international productions.

The actor now splits his time between his Vancouver home, where he is a student of continuing education, and the mainland, where he acts and makes TV appearances. Careerwise, Hong Kong now seems very much an afterthought, although he drew TVB's ire three years ago by agreeing to appear in an ATV series about real-life crimes as a father who chopped his daughter's head off in a rage.

Wen Junhui is Chinese singer, dancer and member of the South Korean boy group SEVENTEEN. He was born in Shenzhen, Guangdong China. The meaning behind his real name is that Moon means 'good at studying', Jun means 'handsome' and Hui means 'i can do better'. He is good at martial arts and Wushu. In China, he was a child actor from the age of 3. He is in the Chinese show "The Collaboration" along with Seventeen's THE8 and Samuel.

Chrissie Chau was born on 22 May 1985 in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China. She is an actress, known for 29 + 1 (2017), City Under Siege (2010) and Death Notice: A Serial Killer Leaving Notes (2023).

Chia-Liang Liu was born on 1 August 1936 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. He was an actor and director, known for Drunken Master II (1994), Legendary Weapons of China (1982) and My Young Auntie (1981). He was married to Jing-Jing Yung and Hsiu-Hsia Ho. He died on 25 June 2013 in Hong Kong, China.

Shih Kien was born on 1 January 1913 in Shígang Village, Panyu, Guangdong, China. He was an actor and production manager, known for Enter the Dragon (1973), Rivals of Kung Fu (1974) and Na Zha nao dong hai (1957). He died on 3 June 2009 in Hong Kong, China.

Richard Ng was born on 17 December 1939 in Guangdong, China. He was an actor and writer, known for Winners & Sinners (1983), Pom Pom (1984) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003). He was married to Susan Ng. He died on 9 April 2023 in Hong Kong.

Fruit Chan was born on 15 April 1959 in Guangdong, China. He is an actor and director, known for The Midnight After (2014), Made in Hong Kong (1997) and Three Husbands (2018).

Chen Kuan-Tai was born on 24 September 1945 in Guangdong, China. He is an actor and director, known for The Man with the Iron Fists (2012), Bloody Monkey Master (1977) and Kera Sakti (1978).

Liu Chia-Yung was born in 1944 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. He is an actor and director, known for Once Upon a Time in China (1991), Armour of God (1986) and The Dragon Family (1988).

Joseph Zeng was born on 9 October 1996 in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China. He is an actor, known for Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023), Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Sabre (2019) and Romance on the Farm (2023).

Ka-Yan Leung was born on 20 January 1949 in Guangdong, China. He is an actor and director, known for The Man with the Iron Fists (2012), Mr. Nice Guy (1997) and Profile in Anger (1984).

Alex Man was born on 25 July 1957 in Guangdong, China. He is an actor, known for Gangland Odyssey (1988), As Tears Go By (1988) and The Golden Pillow (1995). He has been married to Kwok Ming Lai since 2002. They have one child. He was previously married to Niu Tien.

Yin Tse was born on 9 August 1936 in Guangdong, China. He is an actor and producer, known for Shaolin Soccer (2001), Yi nian you meng (1974) and Ai zai Xia Wei Yi (1976). He was previously married to Deborah Dik and Zhen Zhen.

Eric started his training with his father after dinner. The martial art was Choi Li Fut. At that time, everybody practiced Kung Fu. Eric Lee was inspired by the black and white series Won Duck Hing. At the age of 15 his formal martial arts training started. Now he trained some Wing Chun and Southern Hunang Ga. For 5 years Eric also studied with Al Dacascos, and several other instructors. From 1986 till 1972 Eric had his own club where several arts were taught. Eric also masters many weapons. Eric started competing in sparring, Kata and weapons. Eric would be undefeated in Kata and weapons as a black belt.. Eric also introduced the music while doing Katas. Eric retired from competition in 1974.

Eric has some great stats: 1970-1974 King of Kata, Over 100 titles in Kata championships, 2 Golden Fist Awards, Black Belt Hall of Fame, and many more.

Chih-Hung Kuei was born on 20 December 1937 in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. He was a director and assistant director, known for Love Song Over the Sea (1970), Corpse Mania (1981) and Stranger in Hong Kong (1972). He died on 1 October 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.