Marx Cheung

Biography

Marx Cheung (Chang Lei) was born on October 2, 1954, in Heshan County, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province. He grew up in a martial arts family; his father was a Hung Kuen master who was a peer of the father of Lau Kar-leung. Being the youngest of eleven siblings, he began learning Shaolin kung fu at age four and studied the Southern Shaolin "Rou Gong" style for ten years. He won the Hong Kong Martial Arts Open Championship organized by the Hong Kong Martial Arts Association. He lived in the Chai Wan resettlement area and graduated from Hong Kong Piu Kiu Secondary School in 1972. He started his career in 1970 as a martial arts choreographer and worked with director Chang Cheh. In 1975, he joined TVB through the series "C.I.D.", which brought him fame. He also worked as a stuntman behind the scenes for other TV series. In 1980, he co-founded the "Kamikaze" stunt team with seventeen martial artists, later renamed "Hong Kong Stuntmen", performing stunts in notable films and TV productions. He also ran a garage for car repair. He left TVB in January 1988 and subsequently worked in Malaysia with the Shanshui production company, filming TV video tapes and serving as a stunt coordinator. In 1989, he moved to ATV and continued working with Shanshui throughout the 1990s. Chang Lei remains active in Hong Kong's entertainment industry and performs overseas. On a personal note, he was engaged in 1978 but the marriage did not happen, until he married his partner of thirty-nine years in 2017.