Ruco Chan Chin Pang

Biography

Ruco Chan Chin Pang is a Hong Kong actor and singer, born on January 14, 1977 in Hong Kong, and raised in Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon. He was the only child of a firefighter father and a seamstress mother. He attended St. John's Anglican Primary School and later schools run by the Delia Sisters. In his youth, he was passionate about table tennis and was a member of the Hong Kong youth national team from 1989 to 1994, participating in the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Hyderabad, India. After secondary school, he joined the 7th session of TVB's acting training course alongside classmates including Wu Ka Leung and Liu Kai Wai. He signed with PolyGram Records as a singer in 1997 but was unable to release an album due to work constraints. He began his film career in 1996 with "The Final Option" and starred in over ten films as a lead. He moved to ATV in 2000 and returned to TVB in 2007. He achieved a major milestone by winning "Best Actor" at the 2016 TVB Anniversary Awards for "A Fist Within Four Walls," earning the title "TV King of Hong Kong," and also won the TV King title in Singapore and Malaysia three times.