Leslie Cheung

Personal Info

Birthday

September 12, 1956

Day of Death

2003-04-01

(46 years old)

Place of Birth

Hong Kong, British Crown Colony

Also Known As

Zhāng Guóróng

Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing

Cheung Kwok-Wing

張國榮

张国荣

Kwok-wing Cheung

Lesile K.W. Cheung

Guorong Zhang

장국영

Trương Quốc Vinh

张发宗

เลสลี่ จาง

Leslie Cheung

لزلی چونگ کووک-وینگ

Leslie Cheung

Biography

Cheung Kwok-Wing (Chinese: 張國榮, English name: Leslie, September 12, 1956 – April 1, 2003) was a Hong Kong Canadian singer and actor. Born in Hong Kong, Leslie Cheung moved to the United Kingdom in 1971, settling in Leeds, where he enrolled at university to study fashion design.

After completing his studies, he returned to Hong Kong and, in 1977, took part in an amateur singing competition—the ATV Asian Music Contest—where he won second prize. The following year, he released his first album, I Like Dreaming. He soon began appearing on television and quickly landed his first film role in Erotic Dreams of the Red Chamber (1978), an erotic production that Cheung himself later described as a “shameful disaster.