Waise Lee Chi-hung (born 19 December 1959) is a Hong Kong film and television actor best known for playing the roles of villains and antagonists in various films.

Biography

Lee graduated from

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's Artist Training Academy in 1982 and was from the same batch as

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's 1986 film ''

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''. Since then Lee has made appearances in several films, including '' A Chinese Ghost Story II'' (1990), '' To Be Number One'' (1991), ''Powerful Four'' (1992). He also played the leading roles in ''

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'' (1988), '' Bullet in the Head'' (1990) and '' The Cat''. Lee is best known on television for his roles in television series produced by TVB, such as ''Mind Our Own Business'' (1993), ''

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'' (1996), ''Burning Flame'' (1998) and ''

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'' (2001). Starting around 2001, Lee made less appearances in TVB's television dramas. That year, he starred in ''To Where He Belongs'', a television series produced by TVB's rival ATV. He has also been more active in working on mainland Chinese television series since the late 2000s.

Personal life

Lee was first married to a fellow Hong Kong actress

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, after which they moved to

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where they have a son Jasper in 1994. Lee and Fong had since divorced. In 2010 Lee married a mainland Chinese actress Wang Yaqi (王雅琦), who is of

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descent. Their son, Kyle, was born in June 2018.

Filmography

References

External links

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Waise Lee at chinesemov.com
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