Kwong Wa (Chen Muhua)

Biography

Kwong Wa (Chen Muhua) was born on 19 November 1961 in Hong Kong and grew up in Tung Tau Estate and Kowloon City. His father passed away when he was eight, and he was raised with his older brother and sister. After graduating from Wellington English School, he assisted his brother in import/export business at Kai Tak Airport. In his early twenties, he traveled to Kowloon where he met Cantonese opera singer Cheng Kum Cheung and recorded two songs casually. He participated in the 1984 talent contest but withdrew from the finals. He then joined ATV's artist training course in 1985, where his stage name "Kwong Wa" was given by trainer Ko Leung. He won Best New Actor at the 9th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1990 for the film "But I Love You". He became a leading actor at ATV, where the era was known as the "Kwong Wa Era" due to his successful prime-time dramas. He moved to TVB in 1995 and gained widespread fame through "Journey to the West" which achieved a 44-point viewership rating. He won the "My Favourite Character" award at the TVB Anniversary Awards in 2003 for "The Conqueror's Story". He left TVB in 2004 and worked in mainland China, then reduced his acting work due to a spinal injury and dissatisfaction with television production quality.