Ekin Cheng
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Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin (Traditional Chinese: 鄭伊健; Simplified Chinese: 郑伊健; pinyin: Zhèng Yījiàn) (born October 4, 1967) is a Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer. Earlier in his career he was known as Noodle Cheng (鄭伊麵), though he has now reverted to a more conventional-sounding first name. Sometimes he uses Dior (because that was what it sounded like when his younger sister tried to call him) as a first name but usually Ekin is the name used.
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[edit] Biography
Ekin began acting in commercials when he was in high school, the most well-known being for Hi-C Lemon Tea. After high school, he enrolled in TVB's Martial Arts school, but did not like it and switched to their acting school. After that he began to get a number of TV roles. The latest TVB series he participated in was Always Ready, working with Charmaine Sheh, Bowie Lam (林保怡), and Linda Chung.
[edit] Personal life
Ekin was caught up in a grand scandal after leaving Maggie Siu, an actress whom he dated for many years, for a decade younger actress and singer Gigi Leung. Maggie was well-loved by Hong Kong audiences and gave up her career to support Ekin's career and many slighted him after the breakup. In 2006, Ekin and Gigi Leung broke up, ending their seven-year relationship.
In September 2006, Ekin and Yoyo Mung begun dating through their mutual interest in badminton.
Height: 1.73 meters / 5 feet 8 inches
[edit] Movies
His first film was Girls Without Tomorrow (1992) and at the time he was still going by the name Dior Cheng. He changed his name to Ekin before his breakout role in the Young and Dangerous series as Chan Ho Nam. The film led to 6 sequels, all starring Ekin Cheng, and a lucrative working partnership with director Andrew Lau. Together they went on to make The Storm Riders, which was the highest-grossing Hong Kong movie at the time and the first film to utilize a truly large number of special effects. They also worked together on The Legend of Speed, A Man Called Hero, The Duel and the comedy Women From Mars.
Ekin has branched out in the roles he's taken, including more comedy like earlier in his career with My Wife is 18 and Six Strong Guys, while still doing more action-oriented films like The Twins Effect and Tokyo Raiders.
Recently Ekin returned to the movie scene (having taking a break in 2005 to work on the Ultraman TV Series in Thailand), He had a brief appearance in My Name is Fame as himself. Soon after that he starred in Heavenly Mission a triad/cop thriller starring alongside Stephen Fung & Alex Fong. He has completed a Pang Brothers film called The Forest of Death, which will be released in March 2007. He is currently filming a serial in Mainland China based on the life of martial arts master, Huo Yuanjia with former Young & Dangerous co-star Jordan Chan.
[edit] Music
Ekin had a successful music career with BMG. But in the 2000s, he signed with EEG, a juggernaut company owned by Albert Yeung. Under this company he was 'frozen' and not allowed to put out any records. But as is a custom with EEG, he made several movies with other EEG stars. As of 2004, his contract with EEG ended and he returned to BMG where he released a new record. As of 2005, Ekin is an artist of BMA Records.
[edit] Filmography
- Girls Without Tomorrow 1992 (1992) (as Dior Cheng) - Onn
- Boys Are Easy (1993) (as Dior Cheng) - Lee Chi Ko
- Lord of the Wu Tang (1993) (as Dior Cheng) - Cameo appearance
- Future Cops (1993) - Kent/Ken
- Return to a Better Tomorrow (1994) (as Dior Cheng) - Tong Chun
- All of the Winners (1994)
- Mermaid Got Married (1994) (as Dior Cheng) - Chi
- Why Wild Girls (1994) - Mike
- Let's Go Slam Dunk (1994) - Boh San
- The Mean Street Story (1995) (as Dior Cheng) - Melvin Wong
- I'm Your Birthday Cake (1995) (as Dior Cheng) - Water Lam
- Young & Dangerous III (1996) - Chan Ho-Nam
- Young and Dangerous 2 (1996) - Ho Nam
- Feel 100%... Once More (1996) - Marco
- Feel 100% (1996) - Jerry
- Young and Dangerous, Part I (1996) - Ho Nam
- Young and Dangerous 4 (1997) - Ho Nam
- We're No Bad Guys (1997) - Plane
- Portland Street Blues (1998) - Chan Ho-Nam
- Young and Dangerous V (1998) (as Dior Cheng) - Chan Ho-Nam
- The Storm Riders (1998) - Whispering Wind
- Hot War (1998) - Tango One/Paul Wong
- A Man Called Hero (1999) - Hero Hua
- The Legend of Speed (1999) - Sky
- Dragon Heat (2000) - Man in Bath House (Cameo)
- Help!!! (2000) - Joe
- For Bad Boys Only (2000) - King Chan
- Tokyo Raiders (2000) - Yung
- The Duel (2000) - Simon the Snow Blower 'Saint of Sword'
- Those Were the Days (2000) - Chan Ho-Nam
- Born to Be King (2000) - Chan Ho-Nam
- Goodbye, Mr. Cool (2001) - Cool Dragon
- The Legend of Zu (2001) - King Sky
- Fight Zone (2001) - Young Inspector Dark
- Running Out of Time 2 (2001) - The Thief
- Second Time Around (2002) - Ren Lee
- Women from Mars (2002) - Tom Kan
- My Wife Is 18 (2002) - Cheung
- The Twins Effect (2003) - Reeve
- My Dream Girl (2003) - Lam Joe
- Heroic Duo (2003) - Ken
- Floating Landscape (2003) - Sam
- Anna in Kung Fu Land (2003) - Ken
- Black Rose Academy (2004) - Jim Lo
- Six Strong Guys (2004) - Long
- Ab-normal Beauty (2004) - Yiu Chun-Man (cameo)
- Leave Me Alone (2004) - Yiu Chun-Man/Yiu Chun-Kit
- It Had to Be You! (2005) - Jack
- Divergence (2005) - To Hou-sung
- My Name is Fame (2006) - Himself (cameo)
- Heavenly Mission (2006) - Autumn Yip
- Forest of Death (2007) - Steven
