Film & TV

Luc Paul Maurice Besson (French: Luc Paul Maurice Besson; French pronunciation: [lyk bɛsɔə], March 18, 1959 -) is a French director, screenwriter and producer, and the founder of Europa Films.

Ray Lui Leung Wai (English: Ray Lui Leung Wai; December 22, 1956 -), a Hong Kong actor and businessman, was born in Vietnam. He became famous in 1980 for his role as "Ding Li" in the wireless TV series "Shanghai Bund". The 1991 gangster biopic "Cripple" is his film masterpiece.

Pace Wu Pei Tzu (English: Pace Wu Pei Tzu, October 4, 1978 -), born in Taipei, Taiwan, is a Taiwanese female singer and actress. When she debuted in 1998, the record company used the name "Nine-Headed Weird Beautiful Girl" as her promotion direction to distinguish her from the sweet line of common girl singers at that time.

Jacklyn Wu (English: Jacklyn Wu, July 3, 1968 -), Taiwanese actress and singer, graduated from the Department of Drama at the National Academy of Arts (now the National Taipei University of the Arts). In 1990, he participated in his first movie "Love" and was nominated for Best New Actor at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards. In 1994, he shot Ang Lee's movie "Eat Drink Couple" and became famous in Asia. In 1998, she won the "Best Actress" award at the 4th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for her movie "Half a Lifetime". In the late 1990s, the focus of performing arts shifted to mainland China. After getting married in 2007, she retired from the entertainment industry.

Wu Riyan, formerly known as Wu Kaiyan, is a Hong Kong female singer and actress. She was born and raised in Hong Kong and her ancestral home is Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. Wu was identified as "Winter Mushroom Head" when he debuted. After being fired by Neway, he has had no fixed income. In 2019, he started a joint venture to run a rice ball shop. In 2017, she and her husband launched a charity running event called "Run for Love Hong Kong". The proceeds from the event will be donated to the medical expenses of sick children. Its youtube channel is [1]

Wu Ziniu (October 31, 1952 -), male, from Leshan, Sichuan, director from Mainland China. He won the Best Director Award at the 9th China Golden Rooster Awards for his three films: "Evening Bell", "Happy Heroes" and "The Twilight Zone". His representative works include "The Granary of the World", "The Lone Guard with Passionate Loyalty", "The Long Song of Zhenguan", "Deng Xiaoping at the Turning Point of History", etc.

Wu Yingjie (August 11, 1989 -), whose stage name is Guigui, is a Taiwanese actress, female singer and program host. After participating in the TV show "I Love Heise Club" in 2005, she was selected to debut in the girl group Black Girl (formerly known as Heise Club Girls). In 2009, he left the group after his contract expired. After going solo, he mainly focused on TV series and variety shows. In 2016, she officially signed a contract with Korean agency CJ E&M and released her first solo mini-album "GEMMA" under the stage name GEmma. She became the first Taiwanese solo female singer to perform on the Korean stage. After ending her one-year contract with the Korean company in 2017, she established her own personal studio.

Oh Yeon-seo (Korean: Oh Yeon-seo, June 22, 1987 -) is a South Korean actor and singer. In the early days, he debuted with his real name "Oh sunbeam", which means "sunshine". In 2007, he changed his name to "Oh Yunxu". The name is taken from the "Friendship" in the flow of water and the "order" in sequence, which means growing step by step like flowing water. The early transliteration in Greater China was "Wu Yanshu". In 2008, the magazine "Movieweek" (Movie Week) translated its Chinese characters as "Wu Yanxu"; in 2012, the meaning of the name was explained on the program "Strong Heart", and the Chinese characters were written as "Wu Yanxu". In 2022, Garage Entertainment sought confirmation from South Korea and changed his name to "Wu Lianxu". The National Central Library of Korea records its Chinese characters as "Wu Yanxu".

Elaine Wu Yi Lee (English: Elaine Wu Yi Lee, September 23, 1972 -), Hong Kong actress and host, born in Hong Kong, was the winner of the 1990 Miss Asia Hong Kong contest.

Richard Ng Yiu Hon (English: Richard Ng Yiu Hon, December 27, 1939 - April 9, 2023), whose ancestral home is Huiyang, Guangdong (it is also said that Wu Yaohan's ancestral home is Chaozhou, Guangdong), is a Hong Kong actor and businessman. He once immigrated to the United Kingdom. His son Wu Jialong is also an artist and is known as the "original cold-faced comedian".

Jinny Ng Yeuk-hei (English: Jinny Ng Yeuk-hei; May 23, 1992 -), a Hong Kong female singer, actress and program host, formerly known as Wu Jiani, is currently a TVB manager contract artist and a female singer under Aibo Music.

Francis Ng (English: Francis Ng; December 21, 1961 -), formerly known as Wu Zhiqiang, is a Hong Kong actor. In 1999, he won the Best Actor Award at the 37th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for "Gunfire" directed by Johnnie To. In 2000, he won the Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards for "2000 AD". Other works include the TV series "Up to the Sky" series, the movie "Infernal Affairs II", the variety show "Where Are We Going, Dad (Season 2)", etc.

Danny Wu (April 24, 1992 -), actress, Tujia nationality.

Wu Jing (April 3, 1974 -), Manchu, Chinese actor, film director and producer, first-class actor, vice chairman of the China Film Association, member of the 13th and 14th Beijing CPPCC. Wu Jing is a martial arts actor. His starring films include the "Wolf Warrior" series ("Wolf Warrior" and "Wolf Warrior 2"), the "Changjin Lake" series ("Changjin Lake", "Changjin Lake Shuimen Bridge"), and the "Wandering Earth" series ("The Wandering Earth" and "The Wandering Earth 2"), all of which have achieved good box office results in mainland China. The cumulative box office of his starring works has exceeded 30 billion yuan, and the box office of a starring role has exceeded 20 billion yuan. He is the first actor in Chinese film history to achieve this box office achievement. His wife is program host Xie Nan and they have two sons.

Sandra Ng Kwan Yue (English: Sandra Ng Kwan Yue, August 2, 1965 -), nicknamed Sangu, is a Hong Kong actress. She is an influential female comedian in the Chinese region and the actress with the highest cumulative box office revenue in Hong Kong film history (cumulative box office revenue of approximately 700 million). Sandra Ng has filmed more than 100 movies since her debut. In 1999, Sandra Ng won the 18th Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress, the Hong Kong Film Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Actress, and the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress for "Young and Dangerous: The Thirteen Sisters of Hung Hing". In 2003, she won the Best Actress at the 40th Golden Horse Awards for "Golden Rooster". Sandra Ng's father is Xia Chunqiu (Uncle Dong), a Cantonese feature film actor who has hosted Asia Television's "Mark Six Lottery" lottery show for many years. Sandra Ng's partner is director Peter Chan and they have a daughter, Chen Shizhi.

Wu Tianming (October 19, 1939 - March 4, 2014), male, from Sanyuan, Shaanxi Province, is a fourth-generation director in China, with a non-professional background. In the 1980s, he served as the director of Xi'an Film Studio and trained fifth-generation directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Huang Jianxin, and Gu Changwei. Died of myocardial infarction on March 4, 2014 at the age of 74.

Ng Man Tat (English: Ng Man Tat, January 2, 1952 - February 27, 2021), a Hong Kong actor, was born in Xiamen, Fujian Province. He moved to Hong Kong at the age of five. He graduated from the 3rd phase of the TVB Artist Training Course in 1974. He won the Best Supporting Actor at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards for "Heavenly Love", and is well-known for his nonsensical comedies with Stephen Chow. In response to the comedy boom cooling down, he moved to mainland China in the 2000s.

John Woo, SBS (English: John Woo Yu-Sen, September 22, 1946 -) is a Hong Kong male director and screenwriter. His ancestral home is Wuzhou, Guangxi. He was born in Guangzhou and grew up in Hong Kong. He was awarded the Best Director by the annual American film and television awards (Saturn Award) organized by the American Science Fiction, Fantasy and Film Academy, and successfully created his own unique film style. He graduated from Union Primary School in Kowloon, attended Mother Delia Memorial School (Matthew Ricci) and graduated from the Lutheran Union Secondary School in Tai Hang Tung. In 1973, John Woo directed a film independently for the first time. In 1986, "A Better Tomorrow", which he wrote and directed, won the Best Picture and Best Actor awards at the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards. In the 23rd Golden Horse Awards, John Woo was named Best Director. Since this film, John Woo has created his own unique film style, holding high the banner of violent aesthetics in the Eastern Hemisphere, echoing Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino in the Western Hemisphere. In the "100 Years of Chinese Film" event organized by the Hong Kong film industry in 2005, John Woo was selected by Hong Kong as the favorite director of this century. In 2010, he won the Honorary Golden Lion Award at the 67th Venice Film Festival. In 2014, he received the "Outstanding Artistic Contribution Award" of the "2013 Hong Kong Arts Development Awards" from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. In 2015, he won the "Samurai Award" at the Tokyo International Film Festival.

Carrie Ng Ka-Lai (English: Carrie Ng Ka-Lai, February 24, 1963 -) is a Hong Kong actress and director. She graduated from the TVB Artist Training Course in 1981. She later participated in many TV series. In the late 1980s, she moved to the film industry. She won the 30th Golden Horse Award for Best Actress ("Heart Is Like Iron") and the 19th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2000 for Best Supporting Actress ("Meteor").

Ng See Yuen, BBS, JP (English: Ng See Yuen, June 12, 1944 -), Hong Kong director, producer, permanent honorary president of the Hong Kong Film Directors Association, president of the Hong Kong Film Workers Federation, and founded the Siyuan Basketball Team.

Wu Jingjing (August 1964 -), a Gaojia Opera actor, Gongdanxing, first-class actor, deputy director of Xiamen Jinlian Shengjia Theater Troupe, winner of the 21st Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award (2004), a native of Lianhe, Tongan, Xiamen, and a political profile of the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy (a democratic party member). On March 16, 2004, she became the first Gaojia opera actor in history to win the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award and the first prefecture-level actor in Xiamen to win the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award. She studied under Liu Suzhi, and her representative work is the new costume drama "Shangguan Wan'er" (which won the Plum Blossom Award, the 8th China Drama Festival Outstanding Actor Award, and the Cao Yu Drama Award). He has performed with the group in Macau, Kinmen, Singapore and Taiwan.

Wu Zelin (November 28, 1998 -) is a male singer, actor and host in mainland China. He graduated from Xiamen University Jiageng College majoring in environmental design. He signed a contract with Hunan Satellite TV in 2022 and currently serves as the host of Hunan Satellite TV's "Hello, Saturday" and other programs.

Wu Lei (December 26, 1999 -), a Chinese film and television actor, was born in Shanghai and his ancestral home is Guang'an City, Sichuan Province. He graduated from the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy. In 2005, Wu Lei, who was only 6 years old, entered the entertainment industry by participating in the TV series "Fengming Qishan". In 2009, he became known to the audience for his performance in the situation dramas "Aliens at Home" (playing Tang Buku) and "The Naughty Bag Ma Xiaotiao" (playing Ma Xiaotiao). In 2015, he won the Most Promising Actor Award at the National Drama Festival for his role as Fei Liu in the period drama "Langya Bang". In 2017, he starred in the costume fantasy drama "Fights Break the Sphere" (playing the role of Xiao Yan) adapted from the novel of the same name by Tiancan Tudou and the adventure drama "Sand Sea" (playing the role of Li Cu) adapted from the novel of the same name by Nanpai Sanshu. In 2018, he played the role of the young military general Yang Ping in Zhang Yimou's "Shadow". In 2020, he participated in the passionate youth inspirational drama "Crossfire" with the theme of e-sports (playing the role of Lu Xiaobei). In 2021, he played the leading actor Ashle Falcon in the legendary costume drama "Long Song Xing"; in July of the same year, he played the leading actor Zheng Yuxing in the youth movie "Midsummer Future"; in September, he played the leading actor Zheng Yuxing in the youth inspirational period drama "Sail:" He played the male protagonist Xiao Chuang in "When the Wind Rises", which was selected as the 2021 Excellent Online Audiovisual Works of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television; in October, he played Ma Chengfeng in the tribute film "My Fathers and Me" and "Chengfeng" directed by Wu Jing. In 2022, he played the leading actor Ling Buyi in the costume drama "The Stars Are Brilliant and the Moon Rises Over the Sea". In 2023, Wu Lei starred in the urban drama "Just Love", playing the leading actor Song Sanchuan. In December of the same year, Wu Lei won the "Outstanding Artist of the Year Award" at the Tencent Starlight Awards. In 2024, he played the male lead professional snooker player Lin Yiyang in the modern romance drama "In the Blizzard"; in April of the same year, the movie "The World of Grass and Trees" was released, in which Wu Lei played the male lead He Mulian. The film has a cumulative box office of over 100 million, was shortlisted for the main competition of the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival, and was selected as the opening film of the Beijing Film Festival; in May of the same year, Wu Lei personally directed and starred in the Vanuatu chapter of the third season of the personal cycling video IP column "Ride This Reason" (the Ulan Butong chapter of the first season will be broadcast on February 4, 2022, and the Northern Xinjiang chapter of the second season will be broadcast on August 28, 2023). Since its launch, the program has received high praise from all platforms and received exclusive interviews from central media. The total number of video views in the three seasons exceeded 400 million, and the total number of topic reads exceeded 4 billion. The Douban scores for the first and second seasons were 9.5 and 9.6 respectively. November of the same year

Lu Fuhai (?—), Kunqu opera actor, Gongxingxing, China's national first-class actor, member of the Communist Party of China, is currently the deputy secretary and deputy director of the Party Branch Committee of Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theater in Jiangsu Province.