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{{quote|''He promenaded this otherness. It made him a star but obscured his talent. It is a gift to be beautiful; it is an art to know how to lend that beauty to a film character. An actor of commanding subtlety, Leslie rarely overstated an emotion because he knew what the camera saw: he knew the camera loved him.''|'''Richard Corliss''' on Leslie Cheung, ''[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,441237,00.html#ixzz1oZ9OPcgE2003 To Fall from a Great Height]'' ([[Time (magazine)|Time Magazine]])}}
'''Leslie Cheung''' (張國榮) was a Hong Kong singer and actor who was very influential in the musical genre of [[w:Cantopop|Cantopop]]. He was named Asia's biggest male superstar in 2000 and ranked first as 'The most favorite actor in 100 years of Chinese cinema' in 2005.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120210031830/http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/miscellaneous-retail-retail-stores-not/4392792-1.html AllBusiness.com]</ref> In 2010, he was voted third of CNN's top five most iconic musicians of all time, only placing behind [[Michael Jackson]] and [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]].<ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/24/music.icon.gallery/index.html#fbid=nVIn7HoUxgC&wom=false CNN]</ref>
Born in 1954, he entered the Hong Kong entertainment industry in 1977 and struggled through many hardships as a beginning singer/actor. It wasn't until 1984 that his popularity skyrocketed thanks to his hit song "Monica". Since then, Leslie became an instant teen heartthrob and the biggest pop idol of Hong Kong in the 1980s.
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Although Cheung quit his career as a pop singer from 1989 to 1995, he continued his acting and music career as a composer. He composed more than ten songs during that time. In 1993, he won Best Original Movie Song Award from Golden Horse Film Festival for the theme song "Red Cheek, White Hair" to the movie ''[[The Bride with White Hair]]''.
'''Leslie Cheung''' has acted in several [[Wong Kar-wai]] films such as ''Happy Together'' and ''[[Days of Being Wild]]'' which won him the Best Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards in 1991 and his first nomination of Best Actor at the Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan).
In 1992, Cheung's performance in the historical masterpiece ''[[Farewell My Concubine]]'' won him critical acclamation and international fame as a film star and set his steps in the mainland China film industry. Cheung acted as the Peking opera star Dieyi Cheng, a Beijing opera artist who reaches fame with his exquisite performances of female roles. ''[[Farewell My Concubine]]'' is the first Chinese film to have won the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival.
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* ''Last Song in Paris'' (1986)
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* ''A Better Tomorrow II'' (1987)
* ''Rouge'' (1988)
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