Kenneth Tsang Biography – Kenneth Tsang Wiki
Kenneth Tsang born Kenneth Tsang Kong was a Hong Kong actor whose career spanned 50 years and included a variety of acting roles. He won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2015. He returned to Hong Kong in the early 1960s as an architect but felt unattracted to the work. His younger sister by 2 years, Jeanette Lin (林翠), was a film star at the time and provided Tsang with several connections in the industry which boosted his acting career.
Tsang’s film debut was in the movie The Feud (1955) when he was 16, which was followed by a role in Who Isn’t Romantic? (1956). In the mid-1960s, he starred in detective films and classic kung fu movies with Hong Kong teen idols Connie Chan Po-chu and Josephine Siao. He also featured in a few Wong Fei-Hung movies in the late 1960s.
In 1986, he worked as a taxicab owner, Ken, in John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow. Subsequent collaborations with Woo included the role of Ken in A Better Tomorrow 2 in 1987, police officer Danny Lee’s murdered partner in The Killer in 1989, and the strict adoptive father of Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung, and Cherie Chung in Once a Thief in 1991. Tsang also filmed several Singaporean Chinese dramas during the 1990s, notably the 1995 epic The Teochew Family and The Unbeatables II 1996.
Up to this point, the late actor had played roles in mainly Hong Kong movies. His first Hollywood film was The Replacement Killers (1998), also the Hollywood debut of co-star Chow Yun-fat. Tsang appeared alongside Chow once again in Anna and the King as well as Jackie Chan in Rush Hour 2. He played General Moon in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002), and he continued to appear in films from his native Hong Kong.
The late Tsang attended high school at Wah Yan College, Hong Kong, and then Wah Yan College, Kowloon. He attended McMurry College, Abilene, Texas for his freshman year and transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a degree in architecture.
Kenneth Tsang Age
He was born on September 2, 1935, in Shanghai, China, and died on April 27, 2022, in Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong. He was 87 years at the time of his death.
Kenneth Tsang Wife
Tsang was married three times. He first married a Malaysian-Chinese and member of the circus troupe Lan Di in 1969 and had a son. They divorced ten years later in 1979 and his son left to live with his mother. They have since resided in Vancouver, Canada.
In 1980, he married columnist and model Barbara Tang. They had a daughter, Musette Tsang Mo-suet. Tsang and Tang divorced in 1990. In 1994 he married Chiao Chiao (焦姣), a Chinese-born Taiwanese actress. He is survived by his wife of 28 years.
Kenneth Tsang Children
He had two children. His son from his first marriage left with his mother and daughter Musette Tsang Mo-suet whom he had with his second wife.
Kenneth Tsang Family
He was born in Shanghai with family roots in Jida [zh], Zhuhai, Guangdong. His sibling, the sister, is Jeanette Lin Tsui.
Kenneth Tsang Death
Tsang departed from Singapore and arrived in Hong Kong on April 25, 2022. He began his seven-day COVID-19 quarantine at The Kowloon Hotel. On April 27, 2022, Tsang’s motionless body was found by hotel staff in his room. After examination by paramedics, he was pronounced dead at the scene. No immediate cause of death has been given by Hong Kong authorities.
Tsang’s talent manager confirmed his death. “I’m deeply saddened by the news and will miss his laughter and his friendship,” Tsang’s manager, Andrew Ooi, said in a statement. “He was a pioneer and a legend of his time in the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, who broke boundaries with his fearless performances not only there but in Hollywood too. His legacy will live on in the movies he’s made and my heart goes out to his family in this difficult time.”
Kenneth Tsang Cause of Death
The late actor departed from Singapore and arrived in Hong Kong on April 25, 2022. He began his seven-day COVID-19 quarantine at The Kowloon Hotel. On April 27, 2022, his motionless body was found by hotel staff in his room. After examination by paramedics, he was pronounced dead at the scene. No immediate cause of death has been given by Hong Kong authorities.
