Jackie Lui Chung Yin

Biography

Jackie Lui Chung Yin is a Hong Kong actor and TV host, born on 5 February 1966, with ancestral roots in Dongguan, Guangdong. He grew up in the Tokwawan area of Hong Kong in government housing. He received his education at Tak Shun School and SKH Holy Trinity Church Secondary School, later studying at Cui Wah English College. After graduating in 1983, he worked as a government engineering surveyor for over a year before studying drama at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, where his teachers encouraged him to apply to the newly established Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, from which he graduated in 1989 winning the "Best Actor" award for his graduation stage play "Soaring into the Clouds". He began his artistic career in 1990 with the film "King of Boxing" where he played the lead role and was nominated for Best New Performer at the Hong Kong Film Awards. He joined Asia Television and became one of its leading stars, then moved to TVB in 1995. In recent years he has focused on working in mainland China in film and television production and promoting vegetarian culture.