Louis Fan
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Louis Fan at a press conference in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, on 22 May 2010 to promote The Legend Is Born – Ip Man.
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| Chinese name | 樊少皇 |
| Pinyin | Fán Shàohuáng (Mandarin) |
| Jyutping | Faan6 Siu6-wong4 (Cantonese) |
| Born | 19 June 1973 [1] Hong Kong |
| Other name(s) | Fan Siu-wong, Terry Fan |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1985-present |
| Ancestry | Yucheng, Shandong, China |
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Louis Fan Siu-wong (born 19 June 1973) is a Hong Kong actor and martial artist. He is best known for his role as Ricky in Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991) and as Jin Shanzhao in Ip Man (2008) and Ip Man 2 (2010), as well as his roles in some television series produced by TVB.
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Biography[2]
Fan is the son of Fan Mei-sheng, an actor of the Shaw Brothers Studio. At a young age, he often accompanied his father to work and made minor appearances in some of the movies his father acted in. When he was 14, his father sent him to Xuzhou, China, to learn gymnastics and wushu.
After completing his studies, Fan returned to the film industry and made his debut as a leading actor in Stanley Tong's The Stone Age Warriors (1991). In 1992, at the age of 18, Fan rose to fame for portraying the titular character in Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, a Hong Kong film based on the manga Riki-Oh.
Fan was a contract artiste under the Hong Kong television station TVB throughout the 1990s, and he starred in some television dramas like Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (1997) and Young Hero Fang Shiyu (1999). He left TVB later and worked on some Taiwanese and mainland Chinese television series before focusing on films; most of the movies he acted in during this period are not very well-known internationally.
Fan's most recognisable role in more recent times is "Jin Shanzhao", the tough Northern martial artist in the 2008 film Ip Man, which starred Donnie Yen as Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man. Fan's performance in Ip Man earned him a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2009. He reprised his role as Jin Shanzhao in Ip Man 2, a 2010 sequel to Ip Man. He played a new character in The Legend Is Born – Ip Man (2010), another movie about Yip Man that is unrelated to Ip Man and Ip Man 2.
Filmography
Film
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- Amsterdam Connection (1978)
- Descendant of the Sun (1983)
- The Master Strikes Back (1985)
- Silent Love (1986)
- Righting Wrongs (1986)
- Immortal Story (1986)
- Goodbye Mammie (1986)
- Dragons of the Orient (1988)
- The Stone Age Warriors (1991)
- Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
- Once a Cop (1993)
- Organized Crime and Triad Bureau (1993)
- Master of Zen (1994)
- Fearless Match (1994)
- Portrait of a Serial Rapist (1994)
- Water Tank Murder Mystery (1994)
- Twist (1995)
- Informer (1995)
- The Death Games (1997)
- Unbeatables (2000)
- Spy Gear (2001)
- The Story of Freeman (2001)
- Legend of Black Mask (2001)
- Shadow Mask (2001)
- Flying Dragon, Leaping Tiger (2002)
- Invincible (2003)
- Lethal Cop (2003)
- Hot & Spicy (2003)
- The Boxing King (2003)
- Excessive Force (2004)
- Kung Fu Fighter (2007)
- Connected (2008)
- Butterfly Lovers (2008)
- The Moss (2008)
- Ip Man (2008)
- Kung Fu Chefs (2009)
- Give Love (2009)
- On His Majesty's Secret Service (2009)
- Split Second Murders (2009)
- Beauty on Duty! (2010)
- Just Another Pandora's Box (2010)
- Ip Man 2 (2010)
- Future X-Cops (2010)
- The Legend is Born – Ip Man (2010)
- Flirting Scholar 2 (2010)
- A Chinese Ghost Story (2011)
- The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011)
- Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu (2011)
- On My Way (2012)
- Palace (2012)
- Wu Dang (2012)
- Pay Back (2013)
- The Monkey King (2014)
- Unbeatable Youth (2014)
- Fight for Glory (2014)
- Kung Fu Jungle (2014)
- Bounty Hunters (2016)
Television
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- Fist of Power (1995)
- The Hitman Chronicles (1996)
- Justice Sung (1997)
- Weapons of Power (1997)
- Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (1997)
- The New Shaolin Temple (1998)
- Young Hero Fang Shiyu // "Hero Fong Sai Yuk " (1999)
- In the Realm of Fancy (2003)
- Xin Yi Jian Mei (2009)
- Beijing Love Story (2011)
- The Legend of Chu Liuxiang (2012)
- Beauties of the Emperor (2012)
- The Bride with White Hair (2012)
- The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2015)
Personal life
Louis has two children from a previous relationship. In 2012, he began dating actress and singer JJ Jia. After announcing their engagement in November, the two were married on January 1, 2016 in a very private ceremony in Hong Kong.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Louis Fan at the Internet Movie Database
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External links
- Louis Fan on Weibo
- Louis Fan at AllMovie
- Siu Wong Fan at Douban
- Siu-Wong Fan at the Internet Movie Database
- Separately listed as: Terry Fan Siu-Wong at the Internet Movie Database.
- Louis Fan at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
- Louis Fan at Rotten Tomatoes
- Louis Fan on HK Cinemagic
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- Living people
- Hong Kong people of Shandong descent
- 20th-century Hong Kong male actors
- 21st-century Hong Kong male actors
- Hong Kong male film actors
- Hong Kong wushu practitioners
