Louis Fan

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Louis Fan
Louis Fan at a press conference in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, on 22 May 2010 to promote The Legend Is Born – Ip Man.
Chinese name	樊少皇
Pinyin	Fán Shàohuáng (Mandarin)
Jyutping	Faan6 Siu6-wong4 (Cantonese)
Ancestry	Yucheng, Shandong, China
Born	(1973-06-19) 19 June 1973^[1] Hong Kong
Other name(s)	Fan Siu-wong, Terry Fan
Years active	1985-present

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Fan.

Louis Fan Siu-wong (born 19 June 1973) is a Hong Kong actor and martial artist. He is best known for his role as Ricky in Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991) and as Jin Shanzhao in Ip Man (2008) and Ip Man 2 (2010), as well as his roles in some television series produced by TVB.

Biography

Fan is the son of Fan Mei-sheng (or Fan Mui-sang), an actor of the Shaw Brothers Studio. At a young age, he often accompanied his father to work and made minor appearances in some of the movies his father acted in. When he was 14, his father sent him to Xuzhou, China, to learn gymnastics and wushu.

After completing his studies, Fan returned to the film industry and made his debut as a leading actor in Stanley Tong's The Stone Age Warriors (1991). In 1992, at the age of 18, Fan rose to fame for portraying the titular character in Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, a Hong Kong film based on the manga Riki-Oh.

Fan was a contract artiste under the Hong Kong television station TVB throughout the 1990s, and he starred in some television dramas like Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (1997) and Young Hero Fang Shiyu (1999). He left TVB later and worked on some Taiwanese and mainland Chinese television series before focusing on films; most of the movies he acted in during this period are not very well-known internationally.

Fan's most recognisable role in more recent times is "Jin Shanzhao", the tough Northern martial artist in the 2008 film Ip Man, which starred Donnie Yen as Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man. Fan's performance in Ip Man earned him a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2009. He reprised his role as Jin Shanzhao in Ip Man 2, a 2010 sequel to Ip Man. He played a new character in The Legend Is Born – Ip Man (2010), another movie about Yip Man that is unrelated to Ip Man and Ip Man 2.

Filmography

Film

The Master Strikes Back (1985)
Righting Wrongs (1986)
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)
Once a Cop (1993)
Organized Crime and Triad Bureau (1993)
Master of Zen (1994)
Fearless Match (1994)
Portrait of a Serial Rapist (1994)
Water Tank Murder Mystery (1994)
Twist (1995)
Informer (1995)
The Death Games (1997)
Unbeatables (2000)
Spy Gear (2001)
The Story of Freeman (2001)
Legend of Black Mask (2001)
Shadow Mask (2001)
Flying Dragon, Leaping Tiger (2002)
Invincible (2003)
Lethal Cop (2003)
Hot & Spicy (2003)
The Boxing King (2003)
Excessive Force (2004)
Kung Fu Fighter (2007)
Connected (2008)
Butterfly Lovers (2008)
The Moss (2008)
Ip Man (2008)
Kung Fu Chefs (2009)
Give Love (2009)
On His Majesty's Secret Service (2009)
Split Second Murders (2009)
Beauty on Duty! (2010)
Just Another Pandora's Box (2010)
Ip Man 2 (2010)
Future X-Cops (2010)
The Legend is Born – Ip Man (2010)
Flirting Scholar 2 (2010)
A Chinese Ghost Story (2011)
The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011)
Choy Lee Fut Kung Fu (2011)
On My Way (2012)
The Monkey King (2012)
Palace (2012)
Wu Dang

Television

Fist of Power (1995)
The Hitman Chronicles (1996)
Justice Sung (1997)
Weapons of Power (1997)
Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (1997)
The New Shaolin Temple (1998)
Young Hero Fang Shiyu // "Hero Fong Sai Yuk " (1999)
In the Realm of Fancy (2003)
Xin Yi Jian Mei (2009)
Beijing Love Story (2011)
The Legend of Chu Liuxiang (2012)
Beauties of the Emperor (2012)
The Bride with White Hair (2012)

References

↑ Louis Fan at the Internet Movie Database

External links

Louis Fan at the Internet Movie Database
Louis Fan at the Hong Kong Movie Database
Louis Fan on HK Cinemagic

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Persondata
Name	Fan, Louis
Alternative names
Short description	Hong Kong actor
Date of birth	June 19, 1973
Place of birth	Hong Kong
Date of death
Place of death

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