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Chinese name
  
吳興國 (traditional)

Spouse
  
Lin Hsiu-Wei (m. 1980)

Role
  
Actor

Name
  
Wu Hsing-kuo

Chinese name
  
吴兴国 (simplified)


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Born
  
12 April 1953 (age 71) Taiwan (
1953-04-12
)

Awards
  
Hong Kong Film Award for Best New Performer

Nominations
  
Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor, Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording

Movies
  
Green Snake, The Accidental Spy, Temptation of a Monk, Shanghai Grand, Rock N'Roll Cop

Similar People
  
Tsui Hark, Clara Law, Placido Domingo, Tan Dun, Poon Man‑Kit

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Wu Hsing-kuo (吳興國) is a Taiwanese actor of the silver screen and theater, known for both his performance of complex movie roles as much as for his innovative adaptations of Western classics into traditional Peking Opera.

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Wu was trained in classical Peking Opera since the age of 11 in Taiwan's state-run Fu-Hsing Chinese Opera School, specializing in wu sheng (male martial) roles. He was admitted with honors into the Theatre Department of Chinese Culture University in Taipei, trained under master Chou Cheng-jung (Zhou Zheng-rong) and became leading dancer of Lin Hwai-min's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre. However, his teacher Chou Cheng-jung (Zhou Zheng-rong) considered him as a pretentious student who didn't focus on study and finally abandoned him in 1989. Since then, Chou Cheng-jung (died in 2000) never met him anymore. In addition, most of the traditional Chinese opera audiences do not recognize him as a qualified actor.

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In 1986, he and a group of enthusiastic friends founded the Contemporary Legend Theatre (當代傳奇劇場) in Taipei, seeking to revitalize traditional Chinese theatre by adapting Western classical plays to the style and techniques of Peking Opera. He was the leading actor and director of four Shakespeare adaptations, including the critically acclaimed Kingdom of Desire (慾望城國), an adaptation of Macbeth, and King Lear (李爾在此), in which Wu plays all the parts.

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In 1992, Wu was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in New York with Richard Schechner. That year, he also won the Hong Kong Film Award for best new actor.

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Wu is currently artistic director of the Contemporary Legend Theatre, and continues to take on challenging roles in both the modern theatre and Chinese Opera. He crosses the fields of traditional opera, dance, modern theatre, cinema, and television.

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Awards

  • Awarded Best New Performer at the Hong Kong Film Awards in (1992).
  • Nominated for Best Actor at the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards (1994) for his role in Temptation of a Monk
  • References

    Wu Hsing-kuo Wikipedia


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