A Hong Kong actor and singer Tony Chiu-Wai Leung is best-known for his performance in the romantic drama film In the Mood for Love, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. In an acting career spanning over three decades, he started his acting career as a theatre artist in the play The Young Heroes of Shaolin, after which he acted in plays like The Superpower, The Duke of Mount Deer, Police Cadet `84, New Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre, Behind Silk Curtains, Two Most Honorable Knights and Ode to Gallantry to name few.

The actor has appeared in several award-winning films and is one among the highly respected actors in China. Significant film credits include A City of Sadness (1989), Cyclo (1995), Happy Together (1997). He has also starred in films like Hero (2002), 2046 (2004) and Lust, Caution (2007), Red Cliff: Part 1 & 2 (2009), The Great Magician (2011), The Silent War (2012), The Grandmaster (2013), See You Tomorrow (2016). His other projects include Europe Raiders (2017) and Monster Hunt 2 (2018).