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Andy Lau Tak-wah (劉德華 ''Liu Dehua'' in Hanyu Pinyin, born 27 September 1961 in Tai Po, Hong Kong) is a UsefulNotes/HongKong actor and Cantopop singer with a prolific cinematic career.

Born in 1961, Lau began his acting career in the early 1980s, with a lead role in the TVB series ''The Emissary'' and, in 1983, in the feature film ''On the Wrong Track''. While his early fame was mostly due to his good looks and he was often typecast in gangster roles, he proved his acting talent by playing in art-house movies like Creator/WongKarWai's ''As Tears Go By'' in 1988 and ''Days of Being Wild'' in 1990. He earned name recognition among international audiences with ''Film/TheInfernalAffairsTrilogy'' and ''Film/HouseOfFlyingDaggers''; he has also played the title character of ''Film/DetectiveDee'', and starred in a Chinese remake of ''Film/WhatWomenWant''.

He is also one of the first Hong Kong celebrities to have an asteroid named in his honour. Namely, Asteroid 55381 Lautakwah. [[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15166669 Yes, really]].

He has several times been approached to play in Hollywood movies, but as fate would have it, Lau either rejected it[[note]]He rejected a role in the film adaptation of ''Theatre/MButterfly'' because he learned that he'd have to play a scene of licking a foreigner's foot, to which he decided to reject to defend his national pride based on his own trauma. He also almost got a role in ''Film/IronMan3'', but this time he rejected it due to having to focus on taking care of his firstborn child.[[/note]] or it's the other way around[[note]]He almost got the role of Sandman/Flint Marko in ''Film/SpiderMan3'', but this time, it's Sony Pictures that rejected him first.[[/note]].

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!!Andy Lau's Selected Films:

* ''Film/AsTearsGoBy'' (1988)
* ''Film/ABattleOfWits'' (2006)
* ''Film/BloodyBrotherhood'' (1989)
* ''Film/ChinaWhite'' (1989)
* ''Film/DaysOfBeingWild'' (1990)
* ''Film/DetectiveDee'' (2010)
* ''Film/TheDragonFamily'' (1988)
* ''Film/DragonInJail'' (1990)
* ''[[Film/DrunkenMaster Drunken Master III]]'' (1994)
* ''Film/Firestorm2013'' (2013)
* ''Film/FulltimeKiller'' (2001)
* ''Film/FutureCops'' (1993)
* ''Film/FutureXCops'' (2010)
* ''Film/GanglandOdyssey'' (1990)
* ''Film/GodOfGamblers'' (1989)
* ''Film/GodfathersOfHongKong'' (1991)
* ''Film/TheGreatWall'' (2017)
* ''Film/GunNRose'' (1992)
* ''Film/AHomeTooFar'' (1990) - Lau appears in the first movie
* ''Film/HouseOfFlyingDaggers'' (2004)
* ''Film/TheInfernalAffairsTrilogy'' (2002 - 04)
* ''Film/IslandOfFire'' (1990)
* ''Film/TheMagicCrystal'' (1988)
* ''Film/AMomentOfRomance'' (1990) - Lau appears in the first and third movies, although he plays different characters
* ''Film/MoonWarriors'' (1993)
* ''Film/MyLuckyStars'' (1983) - Lau appears in the third movie ''Twinkle, Twinkle, Lucky Stars'' and one of the spinoffs, ''Lucky Stars Go Places''
* ''Film/OnTheWrongTrack'' (1983)
* ''Film/{{Protege}}'' (2008)
* ''Film/ProudAndConfident'' (1989)
* ''Film/ReturnEngagement'' (1990)
* ''Film/RichAndFamous'' (1987)
* ''Film/RunningOutOfTime1999'' (1999)
* The ''Film/SaviourOfTheSoul'' duology (1991-92)
* ''Film/ShanghaiGrand'' (1996)
* ''Film/{{Shockwave}}'' (2017)
* ''Film/ATasteOfKillingAndRomance'' (1994)
* ''Film/ThreeAgainstTheWorld'' (1988)
* ''Film/ThreeKingdomsResurrectionOfTheDragon'' (2008)
* ''Film/TianDi'' (1994) - also known as ''Heaven and Earth''. Not to be confused with the Oliver Stone film of the same name.
* ''Film/TragicHero'' (1987)
* ''Film/TrickyBrains'' (1991)
* ''Film/TheWarlords'' (2008)
* ''Film/{{Shaolin}}'' (2010)

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