Cheung Ka-nin (Tai Bo)

Biography

Cheung Ka-nin, known by his stage name Tai Bo, was born in Hong Kong in 1950 and is a Hong Kong and Taiwanese actor. He moved to Taiwan at the age of one with his father, a former military man who later went into business, and grew up in Kaohsiung where he completed primary school before returning to Hong Kong for secondary education. He joined the Shaw Brothers training troupe and began his career behind the camera in 1968 as a script supervisor under Wu Ma, later working as assistant director and executive director. He was a member of the Hung Ga Ban and Ching Ga Ban stunt teams. He transitioned to acting after being recruited by Jackie Chan and began appearing in Hong Kong films from 1980 in productions by Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. He received a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Horse Awards in 1984 for "公僕" and won the award in 2000 for "運轉手之戀". He also won Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Bell Awards in 2007 for the series "鐵樹花開" after an announcement error was corrected. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the British Independent Film Festival in 2018 for "To Pluto" and nominated for Best Leading Actor at the Golden Horse Awards in 2019 for "叔·叔". In 2020, he won Best Actor from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society, Best Actor from the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild, and Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards, all for "叔·叔". In 2024, he received the Lifetime Achievement Star Asia Award at the New York Asian Film Festival. He is married to a flight attendant whom he met at a gathering hosted by Taiwanese director Yang De-chang, and they have a son and a daughter.