Nick Cheung

Nicholas Cheung Ka-fai (born 2 December 1964) is a Hong Kong actor, singer and director.

He is known for his role in Beast Stalker for which he won Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor.

He was formerly a Royal Hong Kong Police officer for four years, but he left the job after his request to be transferred to the criminal investigation department was turned down.

He then worked for Danny Lee's film production company.

His film debut is "Thank you, Sir!", as a student at the Royal Hong Kong Cadet School.

From 1989 to 1994, he worked at the television station ATV World.

Later, he left ATV and joined another station, TVB.

He was nominated for his first Hong Kong film award in 1999, and won his first award in 2009 for his role in Beast Stalker.

He has been nominated many times at the Hong Kong Film Awards and other Chinese film awards since.

His fame was built on Wong Jing's comedy at first, but he has changed his acting style for more sombre roles since 2003.

They married on 8 December 2003 in Australia.

He left TVB in 2004, and worked mainly on films.

Their daughter, Brittany Cheung (張童; Cheung Tung), was born on 24 January 2006.

Cheung has won seven awards for his role in Beast Stalker (2008), including Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor, Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor, and Golden Horse Film Award for Best Actor.

In 2013, he also won praise and Best Actor awards for his role as an aging MMA fighter in Unbeatable.

Cheung met Hong Kong actress Esther Kwan while he was still working at ATV.

Cheung earned 75 million HKD in 2014.

Cheung has also provided Cantonese voice dubs for foreign films and television programmes.