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Raymond Lui Leung-wai (Vietnamese: Lữ Lương Vỹ, born 22 December 1956) is a Hong Kong actor.^[1] Born in Chợ Lớn, Saigon, South Vietnam, he traces his ancestry to Lianjiang, Guangdong. He is best known for his roles as "Ting Lik" in the TVB series The Bund (1980) and as "Ng Sik-Ho" in the gangster biopic To Be Number One (1991).

Early life and career

Lui was born in a Hoa family in Chợ Lớn, Saigon, South Vietnam, in 1956. His father, a businessman, moved from China to Vietnam in the 1940s. In 1967, during the Vietnam War, Lui moved to Hong Kong with his family and was encouraged by his father to join an actors' training class.^[2] He enrolled in TVB's Artists Training Class in the 1970s and began acting as extras or minor characters in various television series produced by the television network. In 1980, Lui rose to fame after playing "Ting Lik" in the period television series The Bund, co-starring with Chow Yun-fat and Angie Chiu. He continued to portray "Ting Lik" in the two sequels to The Bund (The Bund II and The Bund III). Since then, Lui has been playing the leading roles of various TVB-produced television series in the 1980s. Lui retired from TVB in 1989 and went to work on films and mainland Chinese television series. He returned to TVB in 2009, starring as "Marcus Cheuk" in the television drama Born Rich.

Filmography

References

External links

• The Bund
• Ray Lui at IMDb
• Ray Lui at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase