Known for

Acting

Born

Feb 16, 1964 (62 years old)

Place of birth

Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

Lau Ching-wan

Sean Lau Ching-wan (Chinese: 劉青雲; born February 16, 1964) is a Hong Kong Film Award winning and Golden Bauhinia Award winning film and former television actor based in Hong Kong, sometimes credited as "Sean Lau" despite never adopting it as his own name. Lau was born in Hong Kong in 1964. He joined the TVB acting classes in 1983 and made his first appearance on TV the following year with TV drama Draw Out the Rainbow. Dark-skinned with no matinee-idol look, he struggled to be cast until in the immensely popular stock market drama The Greed of Man (1992), when he acted opposite Adam Cheng. His wife, former (1991) Miss Hong Kong Amy Kwok, is a well-known former television actress. Lau is one of a handful of HK actors who has made the successful transition from TV to film; he is now exclusively a film actor.

Titles

Police Cadet

Series • 1984

Golden Horse Awards

Series • 1962

The Greed of Man

Series • 1992

The Duke of Mount Deer

Series • 1984

The Grand Canal

Series • 1987

Twilight of a Nation

Series • 1988

The Flying Fox Of Snowy Mountain

Series • 1985

Black Mask

Movie • 1996

Shock Wave 2

Movie • 2020

The Battle Among the Clans

Series • 1985

Expect the Unexpected

Movie • 1998

The Foundation

Series • 1984

Warriors of Future

Movie • 2022

Police Story 2

Movie • 1988

The Superlative Affections

Series • 1986

The Fearless Duo

Series • 1984

Divine Retribution

Series • 2000

Empress Da Yu Er

Series • 1992

Viva Erotica

Movie • 1996

Sons of the Neon Night

Movie • 2025

The White Storm

Movie • 2013

Mad Detective

Movie • 2007

The Secret of the Magic Gourd

Movie • 2007

Papa

Movie • 2024

Running Out of Time

Movie • 1999

Heroic Trio 2: Executioners

Movie • 1993

Call of Heroes

Movie • 2016

Overheard

Movie • 2009

Full Alert

Movie • 1997

The Great Magician

Movie • 2011