Biography
Who is Julian Cheung?
Early life
Julian Cheung was born in Hong Kong on August 27, 1971. He grew up attending a Catholic primary school and later went to a Protestant secondary school in Hong Kong. He has an elder sister and a younger sister. When he was thirteen years old, his parents divorced. At age fifteen, he and his father emigrated to Australia where he attended Pendle Hill High School in Sydney. His parents remarried in 1986 and later divorced a second time. Recognizing his vocal and acting abilities, his father sent him to an acting school.
During a summer vacation in Hong Kong in 1990 at the age of nineteen, Julian reconnected with a cousin and childhood friend named Anna Ueyama. Anna introduced him to a manager named Tony, who signed him to IFPI after hearing his voice. Tony began training him for a career in the entertainment industry.
Music career
Julian recorded his first song as a duet with Hong Kong singer Maple Hui. The debut single titled A Modern Love Story was released by the Fitto record company in 1991. The track achieved immense success and remained on the IFPI Album Sales Chart for eleven weeks. In 1992, he received a TVB Jade Solid Gold award as Best Newcoming Singer in the bronze category for his first album. He has since recorded numerous albums in both Cantonese and Mandarin with various record labels.
His musical career included large concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum. He held his first concert at the venue in March 2011 titled I Am An Alien. In July 2014, he performed his second concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum on a four-sided stage called Crazy Hours. In 2021, he joined the cast of the reality television show Call Me by Fire as a contestant.
Acting career
Julian signed with TVB in 1991 and starred in his first television series titled Peak of Passion, which aired in 1992. A year later, he made his film debut in A Warrior's Tragedy. His popularity reached a peak in 1994 when he portrayed Guo Jing in the television adaptation of The Legend of the Condor Heroes. In 1996, he starred in the classic drama Cold Blood Warm Heart, which earned him wide praise and made him widely known.
He returned to TVB in 2000 to star in the successful drama Return of the Cuckoo alongside Charmaine Sheh. The role brought him recognition across several Asian countries and won him multiple awards at the TVB ceremony. He continued starring in Mainland Chinese television series such as Ni Shui Han and Lu Xiao Feng. In 2012, he returned to TVB to film a sequel to the popular drama Triumph in the Skies, playing Captain Koo and boosting his popularity once again.
Personal life
Julian married Hong Kong actress Anita Yuen. The pair met in the nineteen nineties while working on a music video together during the height of their careers. They publicly announced their relationship in 1994 and secretly married in 2001 in San Francisco, California. They share a son who was born in 2006. In addition to his acting and singing career, Julian is related to actor Charlie Cho, who is his uncle.
Birthday and age
Julian Cheung was born on August 27, 1971, which makes Julian 55 years old today. That birthday falls under the Virgo sign. Julian shares the date with 55 other famous people.
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