Simon Sit Shun Kay

Biography

Simon Sit Shun Kay is a Hong Kong actor born on April 15, 1948. He was born in Hong Kong and grew up in the squatter area of Lung Jin, with three brothers and one sister. His father was a sailor in Guangzhou. He received his early education in Guangzhou before joining a Cantonese opera training troupe in 1962 at age thirteen. After eight months, he was forced to leave the troupe after his father intervened. He returned to Guangzhou to complete his schooling before joining a regional opera troupe and touring rural Guangdong from 1963 to 1966. During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to Shanghai and Jinan to learn model operas. He returned to performing Cantonese opera after the Cultural Revolution ended in 1973. In 1981, he returned to Hong Kong and worked in a shoe shop before being introduced to television work through opera connections. He started as a freelance actor at RTV in 1981, then joined TVB in 1986 where he became a contracted actor. His first contracted series was "Ad Ye Ye Fung Kuang". In the early 2000s, he left television to focus on running a media production company. He returned to TVB in 2017 as a freelance actor. He is a senior member of the Hong Kong Performing Artistes Guild and the Chinese Artists Association of Hong Kong, and produces Cantonese opera recordings in Hong Kong.