劉愷威

简介

Hawick Lau is a Hong Kong actor and producer, born on October 13, 1974 in Hong Kong, and is the son of veteran actor Lau Dan. His ancestral roots trace back to Weihai in Shandong Province, China, and he currently resides in mainland China. As a teenager, he moved with his family to Canada. He won the Canadian Chinese Singers Competition in 1993 and joined Hong Kong's TVB the following year, officially launching his career. His first work was the 1995 series "Where The Legend Begins" (真情), co-starring with his father. He released a Mandarin album titled "LALALA我愛你" in 1997 and a Cantonese EP "A BOY'S STORY" in 1998. After leaving TVB in 2005, he moved to mainland China where he first gained recognition in 2008 for his role as Huo Dongqing in "Women in the Warring States" (凤穿牡丹). He achieved widespread fame through roles in series such as "娘妻", for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Jiangsu TV Drama Awards, and "Thousand Mountains Twilight Snow" (千山暮雪) in 2011, which significantly boosted his popularity. In 2013, he produced and starred in "Desperate Love" (盛夏晚晴天), which broke the record for the fastest billion online views that year. He ranked 49th and then 19th on the Forbes China Celebrity list in 2013 and 2014 respectively.