Ray Lui Leung-wai ( vi, Lữ Lương Vỹ, born 22 December 1956) is a Hong Kong actor. Born in

Chợ Lớn Chợ Lớn (, zh, 堤岸), usually anglicized as "Cholon" in English sources, is a quarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It lies on the west bank of the Saigon River, having Bình Tây Market as its central market. Chợ Lớn consists of th ...

, Saigon,

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, he traces his ancestry to

Lianjiang, Guangdong Lianjiang ( postal: Limkong; ) is a county-level city in the municipal region of Zhanjiang, Guangdong. The city has an area of 2,543 square kilometers, and had a population of about 1,680,000 as of 2010. Geography Lianjiang lies in the north ...

. He is best known for his role as "Ting Lik" in the 1980 Hong Kong television series ''

The Bund The Bund or Waitan (, Shanghainese romanization: ''Nga3thae1'', , ) is a waterfront area and a protected historical district in central Shanghai. The area centers on a section of Zhongshan Road (East Zhongshan Road No.1) within the former S ...

'' produced by TVB, which propelled him to fame. Since then, Lui has acted in several films and other television series also produced by TVB.

Early life and career

Lui was born in a

Hoa The Hoa people ( Vietnamese: ''Người Hoa'', or ) are citizens of Vietnam of full or partial Chinese origin. Chinese migration into Vietnam dates back millennia but most Hoa today derive their recent ancestral Chinese heritage from the 18t ...

family in Chợ Lớn, Saigon, South Vietnam in 1956. His father, a businessman, moved from China to Vietnam in the 1940s. In 1967, during the

Vietnam War The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...

, Lui moved to Hong Kong with his family and was encouraged by his father to join an actors' training class. He enrolled in TVB's Artists Training Class in the 1970s and began acting as extras or minor characters in various television series produced by the television network. In 1980, Lui rose to fame after playing "Ting Lik" in the period television series ''

'', co-starring with Chow Yun-fat and

Angie Chiu Angie Chiu (; born 15 November 1954) is a Hong Kong actress, and was the third runner up in the 1973 Miss Hong Kong pageant. Early life In 1954, Chiu was born in Hong Kong. In 1971, Chiu graduated from Shung Tak Catholic English College and l ...

. He continued to portray "Ting Lik" in the two sequels to ''The Bund'' (''

The Bund II ''The Bund II'' is a Hong Kong period drama television series broadcast on TVB in 1980. It is a direct sequel to ''The Bund'', also produced and released by TVB earlier in the same year. A sequel, ''The Bund III'', was released by TVB later that ...

'' and ''

The Bund III ''The Bund III'' is a Hong Kong period drama television series broadcast on TVB in 1980. The series is a direct sequel to ''The Bund'' and '' The Bund II'', which were both released earlier in the same year. Plot The story continues from the en ...

''). Since then, Lui has been playing the leading roles of various TVB-produced television series in the 1980s. Lui retired from TVB in 1989 and went to work on films and mainland Chinese television series. He returned to TVB in 2009, starring as "Marcus Cheuk" in the television drama '' Born Rich''.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase {{DEFAULTSORT:Lui, Ray 1956 births Hong Kong Buddhists Hong Kong people of Hoa descent Vietnamese emigrants to Hong Kong Hong Kong male actors TVB actors Living people Vietnamese-born Hong Kong artists