Andy Lau Tak-wah (Traditional Chinese: 劉德華; Simplified Chinese: 刘德华; pinyin: Liú Déhuá; Cantonese: Làu Dākwà) (born September 27, 1961 in Hong Kong as 劉福榮 Làu Fūkwìng) is a Hong Kong pop star and a movie actor.

The first lead role that made his initial popularity was the TVB series Hunting in 1982. In the same year, Andy began acting in his first movie Boat People. Later in 1983, his role as Yang Guo in wuxia TV serial The Return of the Condor Heroes made him even more popular and landed him his first leading role in a Shaw Brothers' film called On the Wrong Track.

Andy's most recent role was in Battle of Wits in 2006.

He is also one of the more successful Chinese music celebrities, with an extensive list of Cantonese and Mandarin hits to his credit. His first music contract came in 1985, but his singing career reached stellar status in 1990 with the release of the album entitled 可不可以 "Would It Be Possible?", and his subsequent releases only solidified his status as a marketable singer. Andy Lau along with Jacky Cheung, Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai also named as the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings (四大天王 Cantonese: sêi daài tïn wong, Pinyin: sì dà tiān wáng).

Andy Lau also entered into Guinness World Records for "Most Awards Won By A Canto-Pop Male Artist". By April 2000, Andy Lau had won an unprecedented 292 awards, for a singing career that began in 1988. Since 1992, Lau has appeared in concert 179 times. That said, sales of his recordings have dwindled from the late 1990s, and while he is still being able to maintain his reputation as a renowned showbiz entertainer, principally by means of his movies, his recording career has been overtaken by the younger generation of singers.

The most notable hits by Andy Lau include 一起走過的日子 (The Days We Passed Together), 愛不完 (Neverending Love), 潮水 (The Tide), 忘情水 (Forget Love Potion), 中國人 (Chinese People), 笨小孩 (Stupid Child), 愛你一萬年 (Love You Forever (lit. Love You For 10,000 Years)), 你是我的女人 (You Are My Woman), 暗裡著迷.

As well as being a versatile singer, Andy Lau also writes lyrics and composes music for many of his songs.

For more information about Andy Lau, go here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Lau

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Started career as a TV actor

Once a side kick of Yun-Fat Chow. They made 4 movies together: Ying hung ho hon (1987), Gong woo ching (1987), Du shen (1989) and Dou hap (1991). They also made two TV series together: "Yang ka cheung" (1986) and "Sou hat yi" (1982).

Named as "Four Kings" of Hong Kong pop-music industry with Jacky Cheung, Leon Lai and Aaron Kwok in the early 90s.

He was one of the "5 Tigers" in TVB with Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wong Yat-Wah, Miu Kiu-Wai and Ton Chun-Yip in the 80s.

Has the most awards won by a male Cantonese pop artist, as of April 2000 he had 292 awards.

Since 1992 he has appeared in concert 179 times [As of 2003]

He and Tony Leung Chiu Wai made 6 movie together: A Fei jing juen (1991), Fan dou ma liu (1992), Haomen yeyan (1991), Wu hu jiang zhi jue lie (1991), _Wu jian dao 3 (2003)_ and Zhong huan ying xiong (1991). They also starred together in two short-lived tv-series: "Yang ka cheung" (1986) and "Luk ding gei" (1984)

Awarded "No. 1 Box-office Actor 1985-2005" of Hong Kong, yielding a total box office of HKD 1,733,275,816 for shooting 108 films in the past 20 years.

Awarded honorary fellow member by the Hongkong Academy of Performing Arts (HKAPA). Past recipients of the honor include Yun-Fat Chow, John Woo and Anthony Wong.

Is skilled in the Chinese calligraphy.

Lau was awarded the 'Asian Filmmaker of the Year' in the 2006 Pusan International Film Festival in Busan (formerly Pusan), Korea. He received the award after initiating a project 'Focus First Cuts' to finance films from fledging Asian directors. One of the 6 films, the black comedy _Fengkuang de shitou (2006)_ ("Crazy Stone"), has gone on to become to date the second top-grossing film in China this year.

This post was last modified: 01-17-2007 09:19 AM by edison.

Everyone MUST love Andy Lau. He's just so lovable! I remember watching this one movie with him in it, can't really remember the name of it, but he played the really overweight guy. Oh yes. Love on a Diet. I think. It was very funny nonetheless XD

Yes he is loveable lol. Also I heard of Andy and Jay having some disputes but I'm sure they're some rumors so no worries. They just don't seem like the people who would cause a commotion.

Andy and Jay not at good terms

Source: Guang Ming Daily, udn news, Sun News
Credits: Ginuwine (http://www.jay-chou.net)

Andy Lau return to Hong Kong after his location shooting in Beijing, a large group of fans welcome him at the airport. Andy was all smiles and appeared in a happy mood. Recently, it was alleged in the Internet that Andy and Jay Chou were not on good terms as they hold grudge against each other.

A netizen revealed in his personal website that 9 years ago, before Jay became popular, he wrote a song 'Yan Lei Zi Dao' for Andy and was turn down thus hurt the feelings of Jay, this song then became the hit song of Landy Wen.

After so many years, Jay has become the music genius of Taiwan, it was pointed out that Andy approached him for a new song but was turned down by Jay as he could not forget Andy's rejection thus he quoted a NT$100 million price to Andy which was immediately turned down by Andy.

According to records, Andy indeed approached Jay for song in 2001 and Jay composed a song for Andy in a short time which was included in Andy's album but not considered a hit song, thus that particular song was not well received.

When Andy's company was contacted, its spokesman expressed that they had not heard of such allegations, thus would not reply to it.

When reporters contact Jay, he discard this allegation as there would be a standard price for writing songs, how could such a heavenly price came about, if friends approached him for song, he would also lowered his asking price. In addition, Andy is his idol, if he would to approach him for a song, how would he reject him. Jay added that the allegation is too far-fetched.

Jet Li whom is collaborating with Andy for the first time in This Violent Land (Ci Ma), they get along very well. Jet revealed that Andy would be helping him to do voluntary work for his charity foundation. He says: "Andy is a very outstanding Hong Kong actor, we get along well during location shooting for past few days. He have already more than 130 movies to his name, his total box office collection is more than HK$70 million, that's incredible! With such high achievements, to be able to collaborate with him delights me, although we're collaborating for the first time, when I brought up to him during the press conference about my charity foundation, he already agreed to do voluntary work for me, giving me a hand to do well in my charity work"

i love andy lau's movie. he's a good actor. i dont really know which movie i like that he had been in, but for sure i pretty much like Street Fighter( sorry i dont even know if its right or wrong since i only know the one in hmong.)

I think it was called street fighter but I think it was fighters spirit or something like that.

on eof te movies i like frum him was a moment of romance

Andy is great, I liked him in Fulltime killer

andy lau is an great actor.

He is a LEGEND.... I watch his movie and hear his song ever since I was young....unlike other artist where you'll find boring after some times.... he is evergreen....

he my fav actor