''Sean Li Rì Shēng'' (李日焺) is a film actor. He was born in Hong Kong and educated in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Education

Li was educated at

Hurstpierpoint College (''Blessed are the pure in heart'') , established = , closed = , type = Public SchoolIndependent School , religious_affiliation = Church of England , president = , head_label = Headmaster , head = Dominic M ...

, an independent school near the village of

Hurstpierpoint Hurstpierpoint is a village in West Sussex, England, southwest of Burgess Hill, and west of Hassocks railway station. It sits in the civil parish of Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common which has an area of 2029.88 ha and a population ...

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, before attending the

University of Bath (Virgil, Georgics II) , mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind , established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...

in the city of Bath in the UK, where he studied engineering, and at the

Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute (originally the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute) is an acting school founded in 1969 by actor, director, and acting teacher Lee Strasberg. The Institute is located in Union Square on East 15th Street, ...

in 'New York City'.

Life and career

Li was the joint lead, co-starring with

Osman Hung Osman Hung Chi-kit (born 20 March 1979) is a Hong Kong actor and singer-songwriter of the Cantopop group EO2. Life and career Hung has appeared in several films, and in 2009 took the joint-lead role in '' Permanent Residence'', playing the chara ...

, in the film

Permanent Residence ''Permanent Residence'' () is a 2009 Hong Kong film starring Sean Li and Osman Hung. It was directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Danny Cheng, also known as Scud. The film explores several themes traditionally regarded as 'taboo' in Hong Kong societ ...

, playing the character 'Ivan' Permanent Residence review
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Hong Kong film The cinema of Hong Kong ( zh, t=香港電影) is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former British colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of pol ...

trilogy by award-winning Hong Kong film director Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung (who has adopted the stage name '' Scud''). It is an unconventional choice of subject matter for Hong Kong cinema in both its examination of male homosexual love and the marital strain resulting from self-denial of that love; it examines the 'limits of life', while the second in the trilogy, Amphetamine, explores this theme further in the 'limits of passion'. Li appeared in an earlier film, City Without Baseball, which tentatively explores a similar theme, although in a much more diffused way. The third, as yet unreleased, film in the trilogy, ''Life of an Artist'', examines the 'limits of art'. In Permanent Residence, Li's character, named Ivan, is a young gay man who seeks a long-term relationship with a straight friend. The friend is aware of Li's inclination, and is happy to befriend him, but is very reluctant to express open affection for him or to become emotionally involved. The film is claimed by its director, '' Scud'', to be a semi-autobiographical account of his own life.

Filmography

* The Scrying (2015) – Zayden * ''

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'' (2014) – Ming * '' Dual Crisis'' (2011) – Simon * ''

'' (2009) – Ivan * '' City Without Baseball'' (2008) – Bartender * ''

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'' (short experimental film)

Awards and nominations

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Sean Hong Kong male film actors People educated at Hurstpierpoint College Alumni of the University of Bath Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute alumni Living people 21st-century Hong Kong male actors Year of birth missing (living people)