陳勉良

简介

Chan Min-leung, also known as Chan Tak, is a Hong Kong veteran actor and professional painter, born on August 1, 1950, in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong. He grew up in a large family with seven or eight siblings, and his father ran a bakery on Sham Shui Po street. From an early age, he showed artistic talent, becoming fascinated with painting in the fifth grade through the "芥子園畫譜" art manual and teaching himself traditional Chinese painting. At sixteen, he formally enrolled in Chinese painting classes at the Ming Tak Youth Centre under painter Ho Pak-lee. His artwork was exhibited at the "First Contemporary Hong Kong Art Exhibition" at the Hong Kong Museum of Art in 1969, and he won top prizes in national painting competitions in 1973 and 1977. He opened his own studio "青丘軒" in 2001 and published a collection of his works. He began his acting career in 1976 as an extra and became a TVB actor in 1978. Despite lacking formal acting training, he gained recognition for his distinctive portrayals of drug addicts and won an award on the variety show "Sunday好戲王" in 2016. He is known for playing "昌叔" the building security guard in the sitcom "愛·回家之開心速遞" since 2017.