Kenneth Tsang

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Kenneth Tsang
Born	1938 Hong Kong

Kenneth Tsang Kong (Traditional Chinese: 曾江; born 1938) is a Hong Kong actor. Tsang's career has spanned 50 years and included a variety of acting roles.

Tsang was born in Hong Kong with family roots in Zhongshan, Guangdong. He attended high school in Texas, U.S. and received a degree in architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. He returned to Hong Kong in the early 1960s but was bored by the work. His older sister, Jeanette Lin Tsui (林翠) was a film star at the time and provided Tsang with several connections in the industry which boosted his acting career. In the media, Lin Tsui was always presented as Tsang's younger sister instead as it was moreover uncommon for female stars to reveal their age.

Tsang's film debut was in the movie The Feud (1955), when he was just 16, which was followed by a role in Who Isn't Romantic? (1956). In the mid 1960s, Tsang starred in detective films and classic kung fu movies with (at the time) Hong Kong teen idols Connie Chan Po-chu and Josephine Siao. Tsang also appeared in a few Wong Fei-Hung movies in the late 1960s. In the 1980s, Tsang worked with John Woo in the A Better Tomorrow films in the same role as well as a role in Woo's The Killer.

Up to this point, Tsang had played roles in mainly Hong Kong movies. His first Hollywood film was The Replacement Killers (1998), during which he worked with Chow Yun-Fat. Tsang appeared alongside Chow again in Anna and the King as well as Jackie Chan in Rush Hour 2. Tsang played General Moon in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002), and he continues to appear in films from his native Hong Kong.

Tsang's is currently married to Jiao Jiao (焦姣), a Chinese actress.