Kenneth Tsang Kong

Kenneth Tsang Kong was born in Shanghai and educated in architecture at UC Berkeley before returning to Hong Kong to pursue acting in the 1960s. He became a towering pillar of the golden era of Hong Kong action cinema in the 1980s, working extensively with director John Woo. Tsang memorably played Ken, the warmhearted taxi company owner offering sanctuary to ex-convicts in A Better Tomorrow (1986) and A Better Tomorrow II (1987), and police officer Sergeant Tseng in The Killer (1989).

Tsang was one of the few Hong Kong veterans to transition successfully into Hollywood cinema, starring opposite Chow Yun-fat in Antoine Fuqua's The Replacement Killers (1998), playing Captain Chin in Rush Hour 2 (2001) opposite Jackie Chan, and General Moon in the James Bond film Die Another Day (2002). In 2015, he won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for Overheard 3.